Best Marshall Kosloff Podcasts (2025)

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587 | Mike Konczal: What’s Actually Driving the Affordability Crisis + Announcing the Niskanen Summer Institute for Undergrads 42:52

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Niskanen Summer Institute: https://www.niskanencenter.org/niskanen-summer-institute-democracy-that-works/ The Affordability Framework: https://economicsecurityproject.org/news/introducing-the-affordability-framework-a-tool-for-understanding-americas-affordability-crisis/ Realignment Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Realignment Books…

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586 | Oliver Libby: Strong Floor, No Ceiling - A Radical Moderate's Case for Reigniting the American Dream 59:09

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Oliver Libby Forbes Profile: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nelldebevoise/2025/11/11/why-americas-next-big-idea-isnt-about-doing-more--its-about-building-smarter/ Realignment Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Realignment Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email the Show: [email protected] Oliver Libby, civic inve…

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Rana Mitter on How China is Changing 58:17

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Announcement: this podcast will be going on holiday for the rest of December, so this is the last new episode you'll be seeing on this feed in 2025. But I'll be back to regularly scheduled episodes beginning on January 1st of the new year :) Rana Mitter is the ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School, and an expert on underst…

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585 | Chris Matthews: The Politics of Authenticity and Why Robert F. Kennedy Still Matters 56:00

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Hardball Substack: https://thechrismatthews.substack.com/ Realignment Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Realignment Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email the Show: [email protected] Chris Matthews, former host of MSNBC's Hardball (now on Substack) and author of Lessons from Bobby: Ten Reasons Robert F. Kenne…

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Joseph Heath on the Psychology Behind Modern Populism 1:12:01

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Joseph Heath is a political philosophy professor at the University of Toronto and the writer behind the Substack "In Due Course." He is known for his commentary on critical theory, the nature of capitalism, and how our psychological tendencies influence our political beliefs. In this episode, I got a chance to speak with him about the differences b…

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584 | Shadi Hamid: A Skeptic's Case for American Power 1:03:24

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Realignment Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Realignment Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email the Show: [email protected] Shadi Hamid, Washington Post Columnist and author of The Case for American Power, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Shadi discuss his case for American power despite one's opposi…

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Habib Fanny on Tribalism and Fighting the Algorithm 1:23:45

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Habib Fanny writes the Substack "Politidoc." He used to write about politics on the Q&A site Quora, where he amassed over 100k followers from writing there for over a decade about topics such as electoral trends, race relations, and how negative polarization affected his ideology. In this episode, I got a chance to speak with him about why non-whit…

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Lakshya Jain on How Democrats Can Win 53:31

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Lakshya Jain is a political data analyst and co-founder of Split Ticket, a data journalism project known for its sharp election modeling and nonpartisan vote breakdowns. He currently leads the polling operation over at The Argument, a magazine devoted to making the persuasive case for liberal democracy—not by avoiding political conflict, but by eng…

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Elizabeth Bruenig on the Agony and Beauty of Faith 47:41

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Elizabeth Bruenig is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. She is one of the rare journalists today whose work moves seamlessly between politics, theology, and ethics, and grief—without flattening any of them. There’s a line of hers I keep coming back to: Beauty tells you where to look. That's how…

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583 | William D. Hartung & Ben Freeman: The Pentagon's Trillion Dollar War Machine and the Debate Over America's Role in the World 1:06:53

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Realignment Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Realignment Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email the Show: [email protected] The Quincy Institute's William D. Hartung and Ben Freeman, authors of Trillion Dollar War Machine: How Runaway Military Spending Drives America into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us at Hom…

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582 | George Packer: The Emergency - The Post-Literate Age and the Unwinding of American Liberalism 56:10

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The Atlantic | A Post-Literate Age: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/journalism-literature-media-trump/684752/ Realignment Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Realignment Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email the Show: [email protected] George Packer, Staff Writer at The Atlantic and author of…

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581 | Jeffrey Rosen: Hamilton vs. Jefferson and the Battle Over Government Power in 21st Century America 53:55

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Realignment Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Realignment Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email the Show: [email protected] Jeffrey Rosen, President of the National Constitution Center and author of The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting Battle Over Power in America, returns t…

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Coming Soon on Frames of Space... 22:59

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I talk about the past, present, and future of this show. Show Notes Frames of Space Listenership Survey Frames of Space Substack Newsletter Check out my Patreon hereBy Andrew Xu

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580 | Jake Tapper: How to Fight and Prosecute Forever Wars from Al Qaeda to Venezuelan Strikes and Mexican Drug Cartels 36:55

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Realignment Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Realignment Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email the Show: [email protected] Jake Tapper, CNN host and author of Race Against Terror: Chasing an Al Qaeda Killer at the Dawn of the Forever War, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Jake discuss the saga of the firs…

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579 | Liam Kerr: Deciding to Win: A Centrist Autopsy of the Post-2024 Democratic Party and the Center's Missing Story 1:23:35

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Deciding to Win Report: Deciding To Win – Toward A Common Sense Renewal of the Democratic Party Semafor: Left-wing ideas have wrecked Democrats’ brand, new report warns GOP Autopsy Report: RNCreport03182013.pdf Realignment Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Realignment Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email the Show:…

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The Realignment Live from the Aspen Ideas Festival | Reihan Salam: How Did We Get Here? NYC Working Class Immigrants, the Right's H1B Debate, and the New Cultural Politics of Immigration 27:08

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Realignment Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Realignment Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email the Show: [email protected] Last week, Marshall interviewed Reihan Salam, President of the Manhattan Institute, at Newark's Aspen Ideas Festival: Economy. Marshall and Reihan discussed culture's impact on the econ…

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Francis Fukuyama on Liberal Democracy at a Crossroads 57:26

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Francis Fukuyama is a Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He is known for his book The End of History and the Last Man, which argued that liberal democracy represented the endpoint of humanity's ideological evolution. In this episode, I got a chance to speak with him about whether his end of hi…

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578 | Frank DiStefano: The Realignment and America's 21st Century "Crisis of Legitimacy" 1:11:21

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Realignment Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Realignment Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email the Show: [email protected] Frank DiStefano, author of The Next Realignment: Why America's Parties Are Crumbling and What Happens Next and the Renew the Republic Substack, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and …

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Marshall Kosloff on Why Liberalism Needs New Stories 1:22:14

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Marshall Kosloff is a senior fellow at the Niskanen Center and the host of the podcast The Realignment. His work covers the nature of coalitional change in American politics since the rise of Donald Trump, and how Democrats can accomplish the policies of the Abundance agenda at the state level. In this episode, I got a chance to speak with him abou…

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577 | Steve Teles: Why the Realignment Has Made Think Tanks More Relevant Than Ever 57:47

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Giselle Hale: Moving Abundance from Op-Eds to Action - Why Local Elected Officials Are the Missing Piece of the Puzzle 1:01:47

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https://abundanceelected.com/about-us/ https://www.axios.com/2025/09/03/democrats-abundance-movement-group Realignment Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Realignment Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email the Show: [email protected] Giselle Hale, Managing Partner at the Abundance Network and former Mayor of Re…

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Steve Teles on the Promise of Abundance in America 53:38

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Steve Teles is a political science professor at Johns Hopkins University, and a senior fellow at the Niskanen Center. He is one of the main advocates of the abundance agenda, which champions supply-side solutions to many of the problems of modern economies, including housing unaffordability, clean energy, public infrastructure, and more. In this ep…

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575 | Doug Most: Pragmatism in Action - WWII Shipbuilding, the Arsenal of Democracy, and Today’s Challenges 40:58

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Realignment Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Realignment Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email the Show: [email protected] Doug Most, author of Launching Liberty: The Epic Race to Build the Ships That Took America to War, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Doug discuss the untold story of the construction …

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574 | Nancy Scola: The Anti-Monopoly Summit, Abundance 2025, & National Conservatism - What D.C.’s Conference Season Really Revealed 1:09:11

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Realignment Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Realignment Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email the Show: [email protected] Nancy Scola, reporter and journalist focused on the battle of ideas in Washington, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Nancy discuss the three big ideas-focused conferences in DC i…

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573 | Danielle Lee Tomson: The Story & Authenticity Gap - Why the Center-Left Keeps Losing the Plot 1:20:28

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Failure to Communicate Substack: https://failuretocommunicate.substack.com/ Danielle Lee Tomson: https://failuretocommunicate.substack.com/p/beyond-messaging Danielle Lee Tomson: https://failuretocommunicate.substack.com/p/the-authenticity-gap Realignment Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Realignment Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/sh…

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Allie Volpe on Why You Should Talk to Strangers 58:52

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Allie Volpe is a correspondent at Vox. She writes extensively about the science of human connection—friendship, conversation, community, and the invisible threads that tie our well-being to the relationships around us. And let me tell you, these connections are vital. Take loneliness, for instance. Loneliness isn’t just a feeling; it’s a state of b…

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572 | Season Premiere: Steve Teles on The Realignment's New Home at Niskanen & Where Abundance Goes Next After Last Week's Conference + A Note on Charlie Kirk 1:02:56

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Must-Read on Political Violence in America: Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence Jerusalem Demsas in The Argument on Abundance vs. National Conservatism: A Tale of Two Ballrooms Steve Teles on "The Varieties of Abundance: Varieties of Abundance - Niskanen Center New Cascadian Abundanc…

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David French on Understanding the Rise of MAGA 1:01:33

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David French is an opinion columnist for The New York Times. Formerly a senior editor at The Dispatch and staff writer at National Review, David is known by many for his understanding of mainstream conservatism, and how Republican culture has changed significantly over the past decade. In this episode, I spoke with him about the history of populism…

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571 | Steve Teles: The Varieties of Abundance - Why Abundance Isn't Left, Right, or Center 48:15

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Varieties of Abundance: https://www.niskanencenter.org/abundance-varieties/ PDF Version: https://www.niskanencenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Varieties-of-Abundance.pdf Realignment Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Realignment Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email the Show: [email protected] Steve Teles…

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570 | Dan Wang: China's Engineering State, America's Lawyerly Society, and the Competition for the 21st Century 1:12:02

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Realignment Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Realignment Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email the Show: [email protected] Dan Wang, Research Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover History Lab and author of Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Dan discuss Chin…

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569 | The Shah's Fall, Khomeini's Rise, and What It Means for the U.S. and Iran Today 50:05

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REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: [email protected] Scott Anderson, author of King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion, and Catastrophic Miscalculation, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Scott discuss the …

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568 | Jon Lee Anderson: Was Afghanistan the Graveyard of America's Empire? 1:00:38

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REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: [email protected] Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker Staff Writer and author of To Lose a War: The Fall and the Rise of the Taliban, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Jon discuss the legacy of America's …

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Jeremiah Johnson on Liberalism and How Social Media Shapes Us 55:10

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Jeremiah Johnson is the co-founder of The Center for New Liberalism, host of The New Liberal Podcast, and the writer behind the Substack Infinite Scroll. His writing lives at the strange intersection of serious policy and unserious online discourse—and he’s one of the few people I’ve come across who is willing to take both seriously. One day he’s w…

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567 | Sam D'Amico & Noah Smith: Why Electricity Is Eating the World - How the Electric Tech Stack Will Dominate the 21st Century 54:24

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Noah Smith's Substack: www.noahpinion.blog Impulse Labs: www.impulselabs.com Fast Company on Impulse Labs: Innovation by Design 2024: Impulse Labs' new induction cooktop is a step up from your gas stove - Fast Company REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmen…

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566 | Osita Nwanevu: The Case for a New American Founding: Rethinking Democracy After 2024 59:40

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REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: [email protected] Osita Nwanevu, author of The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Osita discuss a "re-founding" of America at…

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565 | Daniel Squadron: Rebuilding American Liberalism from the States Up 59:58

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NYT: New Democratic Group Says Answer to the Party’s Woes Lies With the States States Forum Journal: Adam Pritzker & Daniel Squadron - First Principles in the 11th Hour REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: [email protected] Daniel Squad…

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Bret Devereaux on the Norms of the US Military 1:25:46

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Bret Devereaux is a military historian and a Teaching Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University. He writes the blog "A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry," which covers Roman history, the nature of power and violence in society, and the best sci-fi/fantasy stories. In this episode, I got a chance to speak with him about how George Wash…

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564 | Steve Teles: What Democrats Can Learn from the GOP's Trump-Era Upheaval 42:36

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REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: [email protected] The Niskanen Center's Steve Teles returns to The Realignment for a wide-ranging discussion about the Democratic Party's evolution during the Trump-era and what lessons it can and ca…

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563 | Sam Tanenhaus: William F. Buckley Jr. and the Battle for Political Ideas 52:26

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Can the GOP Be a Party of Ideas? https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/magazine/can-the-gop-be-a-party-of-ideas.html REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: [email protected] Sam Tanenhaus, author of Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That …

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562 | Oren Cass: American Compass and the Right's Trump-Era Realignment 56:06

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REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: [email protected] Oren Cass, Founder and Chief Economist of American Compass and editor of The New Conservatives: Restoring America's Commitment to Family, Community, and Industry, returns to The Rea…

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Karin Tamerius on Why Our Brains Struggle with Modern Politics 1:09:19

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Karin Tamerius is a psychiatrist, a political psychologist, and the founder of Smart Politics. She writes the Substack "The Smart Politics Way," which has quietly become one of the most thoughtful guides to how we talk about—and think about—politics. The truth is, we’re living in a time where the news cycle is relentless. It’s not just a daily onsl…

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561 | Jeff Hauser vs. Paul Williams - Debating What the Abundance Agenda Gets Right and Wrong 1:01:29

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Abundance 2025 REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: [email protected] Jeff Hauser, Paul E. Williams, Marshall Kosloff

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560 | Nancy Scola: How to Win the New Ideas War in Washington 1:03:02

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Open Philanthropy Job Posting: Program Associate/Senior Program Associate, Abundance and Growth (Generalist Track) @ Open Philanthropy Referral Link: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openphilanthropy/form/external-referrals REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment …

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Mónica Guzmán on Navigating Difficult Political Disagreements 1:05:34

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Mónica Guzmán is the author of I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times. She is also host of the podcast "A Braver Way," and an advisor for Public Practice at Braver Angels. Her beat is bridging political divides, and how to model good-faith political disagreements across the aisle. I…

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559 | Saagar Enjeti: What's Next for America and Iran? 1:02:05

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REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: [email protected] Back from paternity leave, Saagar Enjeti returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Saagar discuss the aftermath of U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Iran's nuclear program, how the operatio…

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Stephanie Murray on Why Low Birthrates Matter 1:19:42

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Stephanie Murray is a contributing writer for The Atlantic and the author behind the Substack "Family Stuff." Her beat involves covering many of the intricacies and data points behind parenting and child-rearing, particularly the decline in birthrates throughout much of the developed world. In this episode, I got a chance to speak with her about th…

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558 | Derek Thompson & Rep. Jake Auchincloss: WelcomeFest 2025 - Can the Abundance Agenda Provide the Center's Missing Vision? 25:14

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REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: [email protected] Last week, Marshall interviewed Abundance co-author Derek Thompson and Representative Jake Auchincloss at WelcomeFest 2025. Marshall, Derek, and Jake's panel focused on the abundanc…

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557 | Steve Teles: Can the Abundance Agenda Win America's Factional Future? 53:50

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Steve Teles in Ezra Klein's NYT column: Opinion | The Abundance Agenda Has Its Own Theory of Power - The New York Times Josh Barro on Unions and Abundance: In Blue Cities, Abundance Will Require Fighting Labor Unions REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment…

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Charlotte Swasey on How Voters Perceive the Democrats 1:11:01

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Charlotte Swasey is the writer behind the Substack "Medium Data," which examines the intricacies of polling and political analysis to generate upcoming election forecasts and predictions for Democratic politicians. In this episode, I got a chance to speak with her about the Senate forecast for the 2026 Elections, the gap between the perception and …

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556 | Steve Teles: Are the Abundance Agenda and Populism Incompatible? 39:17

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Abundance vs. Populism Polling: Poll: Democratic voters prefer "populism" over "abundance" REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: [email protected] Steve Teles, Johns Hopkins University Professor and Niskanen Center Senior Fellow, returns…