The Realignment

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Introducing "Endless Frontiers": CFR's Rush Doshi on the U.S.-China Challenge Apr 22, 2025

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Axios: Texas science summit draws Trump, Biden, Obama, Bush admin officials
Lux Capital Riskgaming: Riskgaming: The Pessimistic Turn in Reindustrialization

Rush Doshi, C.V. Starr senior fellow for Asia studies and director of the China Strategy Initiative at the Council on Foreign Relations joins for the first episode of the Endless Frontiers podcast. Rush and Endless Frontiers Executive Producer Marshall Kosloff discuss the decade-long goals of Endless Frontiers, America's advantages and disadvantages relative to China in the mid-2020s, the degree to which the national competitiveness conversation can be reduced to our position relative to China, and the need for reindustrialization, defense reform, resilience, and national cohesion in the face of current and emerging challenges.

547 | Krish O'Mara Vignarajah: The Post-Realignment Politics of Refugee Policy and Immigration Reform Apr 18, 2025

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Endless Frontiers: Axios - The future of U.S. security is today taking shape in Texas

TedX: Krish O'Mara Vignarajah - What is America's Superpower?

Krish O'Mara Vignarajah, President and CEO of Global Refuge, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Krish discuss Global Refuge's work with American refugee resettlement, the roots of the global backlash against immigration and refugee resettlement, the case for immigration, how pro-immigration groups should respond to the 2024 election, the Biden administration's policy mistakes when it came to the southern border, the role of scarcity in immigration scarcity, and why the post-war consensus around immigration and refugee resettlement broke down.

546 | Rotimi Adeoye: Where Does Abundance, the Anti-Oligarchy Movement, and the Dem Tea Party Go Next? Apr 08, 2025

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An Abundance of Ambiguity | Washington Monthly

The Abundance Agenda – People's Policy Project

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Rotimi Adeoye, columnist and MSNBC contributor, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Rotimi discuss the takeaways from Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's Abundance book tour as the abundance agenda picks up steam, the impact of Bernie Sanders and AOC's anti-oligarchy tour, the strengths and weaknesses of the very online attempts to build a Democratic Party equivalent of the GOP's 2010s Tea Party movement, and the difficulties of navigating immigration politics during an era of anti-establishment backlash.

545 | Richard D. Kahlenberg: Is Class-Based Affirmative Action the Future of Higher Education? Apr 03, 2025

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Richard D. Kahlenberg, author of Class Matters: The Fight to Get Beyond Race Preferences, Reduce Inequality, and Build Real Diversity at America’s Colleges and Director of the American Identity Project at the Progressive Policy Institute, returns to The Realignment. Richard and Marshall discuss the future of higher education after the Supreme Court ended race-based affirmative action, why America's "river of power" runs through the Ivy League, tensions between class-based affirmative action and differing visions of "merit," higher education's response to the Trump administration's attacks, and the role of public, non-elite institutions in promoting economic opportunity.

544 | State Senator Mallory McMorrow: The Realignment Comes to Michigan Apr 01, 2025

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Mallory McMorrow, Michigan State Senator and author of Hate Won't Win: Find Your Power and Leave This Place Better Than You Found It, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Mallory discuss Michigan's role in American politics in 2024 and beyond, the Abundance Agenda and the centrality of the affordability crisis and government failure for voters, her viral 2022 speech, the end of traditional and 2010s digital media's ability to gatekeep, the differing experiences of Millennials and Gen Z, the rising gender gap between young men and women, and how Democrats should respond to culture war issues.

543 | Rep. Jake Auchincloss: How Democrats Lost the Battle of Ideas During the Realignment Mar 27, 2025

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Can the G.O.P. Be a Party of Ideas? - The New York Times

Rep. Jake Auchincloss on Why Democrats Need New Big Ideas | TIME

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542 | Edward Fishman: Chokepoints - How America and Other Great Powers Wage Economic Warfare Mar 25, 2025

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Edward Fishman, author of Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare, joins The Realignment. Edward and Marshall discuss the rise of economic warfare, from the War on Terror to the Obama administration's Iran nuclear deal and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, economic warfare track record when it comes to accomplishing desired political outcomes, the impact of American sanctions on Russia and whether their effects were overstated at the war's outset, the potential deterring effects of economic warfare, their potential use in a U.S.-China conflict over Taiwan, and the greater meaning of the end of the globalization era of the 1990s and 2000s.

541 | Ezra Klein: The Abundance Agenda - Why Liberalism Needs to Build Again Mar 18, 2025

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Announcement: Open Philanthropy $120 Abundance and Growth Fund

Job Posting: Open Philanthropy - Senior Program Officer, Abundance and Growth Fund

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Ezra Klein, host of the Ezra Klein Show and co-author of Abundance, joins The Realignment. Ezra and Marshall discuss the Abundance Agenda, the housing crisis, the failure to build infrastructure and clean energy in Blue States, why 21st century liberalism needs an update, abundance's place in the Democratic Party's coalition, and whether wonky ideas can translate into winning political agendas.

540 | Felicia Wong & Steve Teles: Can the Abundance Agenda and Economic Populism Get Along? Mar 11, 2025

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Cost Disease Socialism: How Subsidizing Costs While Restricting Supply Drives America’s Fiscal Imbalance - Niskanen Center

The rise of the abundance faction - Niskanen Center

The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality: Lindsey, Brink, Teles, Steven M.: 9780190627768: Amazon.com: Books

Felicia Wong, Principal at the Roosevelt Institute, and Steve Teles, Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center and Johns Hopkins University Professor, return to The Realignment. Felicia, Steve, and Marshall debate and discuss the tensions between the rising "Abundance Agenda" faction and left populists, the role of unions, whether one can focus on increasing the supply of scarce goods and lowering prices while also addressing inequality, how to increase the effectiveness of government, and what a synthesis of different parts of the center to left spectrum could look like in 2028 and beyond.

FAI Presents | George P. Bush: Texas at the Center of The Realignment Mar 10, 2025

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George P. Bush, former Texas Land Commissioner, joins The Realignment for the first of a multi-month series on Texas and the future of American politics. Marshall and George discuss the lace and role of Texas in America's political realignment, the rise and fall of Blue Texas from the 2010s-2024, the impact of minorities moving to the right, the complexities of Latino identity, how politicians will respond to the rise of podcasts, his interest in AI's impact on elections, and preview upcoming coverage and interviews on Texas politics and policy.

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