The Realignment
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The Realignment

by The Realignment

The United States is in the midst of a dramatic political realignment with shifting views on national security, economics, technology, and the role of government in our lives. Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloff explore this with thinkers, policymakers, and more.

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598 | Madeline Hart: How to Mobilize the American Industrial Base, Embrace Heretics, and Deter WWIII
55:58 Mar 24, 2026
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597 | Michael Laskawy: Why States Are the Real Center of American Politics
51:43 Mar 10, 2026
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596 | Saagar Enjeti: What the Iran War Means for MAGA, the New Right, and the America First Movement
1:04:48 Mar 9, 2026
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States Forum Journal | Audio Essay: Marshall Kosloff on "The Missing Liberal Story"
20:00 Feb 24, 2026
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595 | Ned Resnikoff: One Year In - Taking Abundance Back to Its Fundamentals
57:43 Feb 19, 2026
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594 | Steve Teles: Hard Lessons for Centrists Trying to Overcome the Mediocrity Challenge + Last Call for Niskanen Summer Institute Applications
1:01:10 Feb 17, 2026
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593 | Austin Ahlman and Ben Winsor: Seven Hard Lessons on Economic Populism
1:43:07 Feb 12, 2026
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592 | Laura Field: How the MAGA New Right Took Power - From the Flight 93 Essay to Trump 2024
1:23:06 Feb 5, 2026
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591 | Saikat Chakrabarti: Building a New Consensus - How to Move America from "Failure Mode" to "Mission Mode"
56:05 Jan 29, 2026
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590 | Brink Lindsey: How the 21st Century Mugged a Libertarian
1:02:43 Jan 22, 2026
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589 | Danielle Lee Tomson: When the Story Breaks: MAGA, Liberalism, and the Battle to Define Reality
1:15:26 Jan 8, 2026
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588 | George M. Dougherty: Beyond "Unmanned": How Drones Are (and Aren't) Rewriting Warfare
1:08:28 Jan 6, 2026
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587 | Mike Konczal: What’s Actually Driving the Affordability Crisis + Announcing the Niskanen Summer Institute for Undergrads
42:52 Dec 19, 2025
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586 | Oliver Libby: Strong Floor, No Ceiling - A Radical Moderate's Case for Reigniting the American Dream
59:09 Dec 16, 2025
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585 | Chris Matthews: The Politics of Authenticity and Why Robert F. Kennedy Still Matters
56:00 Dec 9, 2025
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584 | Shadi Hamid: A Skeptic's Case for American Power
1:03:24 Dec 2, 2025
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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 Nov 13, 2025
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582 | George Packer: The Emergency - The Post-Literate Age and the Unwinding of American Liberalism
56:10 Nov 11, 2025
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581 | Jeffrey Rosen: Hamilton vs. Jefferson and the Battle Over Government Power in 21st Century America
53:55 Nov 7, 2025
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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 Nov 4, 2025
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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 Oct 30, 2025
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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 Oct 28, 2025
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578 | Frank DiStefano: The Realignment and America's 21st Century "Crisis of Legitimacy"
1:11:21 Oct 14, 2025
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577 | Steve Teles: Why the Realignment Has Made Think Tanks More Relevant Than Ever
57:47 Oct 7, 2025
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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 Oct 2, 2025
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575 | Doug Most: Pragmatism in Action - WWII Shipbuilding, the Arsenal of Democracy, and Today’s Challenges
40:58 Sep 25, 2025
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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 Sep 18, 2025
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573 | Danielle Lee Tomson: The Story & Authenticity Gap - Why the Center-Left Keeps Losing the Plot
1:20:28 Sep 16, 2025
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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 Sep 11, 2025
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571 | Steve Teles: The Varieties of Abundance - Why Abundance Isn't Left, Right, or Center
48:15 Aug 28, 2025
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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 Aug 26, 2025
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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 Aug 21, 2025
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568 | Jon Lee Anderson: Was Afghanistan the Graveyard of America's Empire?
1:00:38 Aug 19, 2025
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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 Aug 14, 2025
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566 | Osita Nwanevu: The Case for a New American Founding: Rethinking Democracy After 2024
59:40 Aug 12, 2025
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565 | Daniel Squadron: Rebuilding American Liberalism from the States Up
59:58 Aug 5, 2025
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564 | Steve Teles: What Democrats Can Learn from the GOP's Trump-Era Upheaval
42:36 Jul 31, 2025
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563 | Sam Tanenhaus: William F. Buckley Jr. and the Battle for Political Ideas
52:26 Jul 29, 2025
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562 | Oren Cass: American Compass and the Right's Trump-Era Realignment
56:06 Jul 24, 2025
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561 | Jeff Hauser vs. Paul Williams - Debating What the Abundance Agenda Gets Right and Wrong
1:01:29 Jul 15, 2025
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560 | Nancy Scola: How to Win the New Ideas War in Washington
1:03:02 Jul 10, 2025
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559 | Saagar Enjeti: What's Next for America and Iran?
1:02:05 Jun 25, 2025
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558 | Derek Thompson & Rep. Jake Auchincloss: WelcomeFest 2025 - Can the Abundance Agenda Provide the Center's Missing Vision?
25:14 Jun 12, 2025
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557 | Steve Teles: Can the Abundance Agenda Win America's Factional Future?
53:50 Jun 10, 2025
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556 | Steve Teles: Are the Abundance Agenda and Populism Incompatible?
39:17 Jun 3, 2025
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555 | Gary Gerstle & Noam Maggor: The Realignment, Post-Neoliberalism, and the Birth of a New Political Order
1:12:46 May 29, 2025
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554 | Ian Fletcher: Why Industrial Policy and Managed Trade Are Key to America's Future
53:20 May 27, 2025
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553 | Steve Teles: Where Does the Abundance Agenda Go Next?
50:47 May 22, 2025
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552 | Mark K. Updegrove: Presidential Character & the Weight of History - What Makes a Good President?
59:28 May 20, 2025
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551 | John Cassidy: The Rise of Capitalism's Critics on the Nationalist Right and Democratic Socialist Left
1:00:23 May 15, 2025
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