The Realignment
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After the 2026 Midterms, the Democratic Party's Future is…
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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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- After the 2026 Midterms, the Democratic Party's Future is Left-Liberal Fusion with Danielle Lee Tomson, Rotimi Adeoye, and Ryan Geddie · 1 h 36 min · Episode 685On today's episode, Dr. Danielle Lee Tomson, Rotimi Adeoye of The New York Times, and independent YouTuber Ryan Geddie join The Realignment. Reacting to both the 2026 midterm…
- Saagar Enjeti: What the Blue Tsunami Means for Trump, MAGA, and the Future of the GOP · 56 min · Episode 684Saagar Enjeti, Co-Host of Breaking Points and former Co-Host of The Realignment, returns to the podcast. In their conversation, Marshall and Saagar return to The Realignment's…
- The Realignment x Aspen Ideas Festival: Economy | Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, & Christos Makridis · 53 min · Episode 683Last week, Marshall interviewed former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, American Action Forum President and former Director of the Congressional Budget Office Douglas…
- The Realignment at WelcomeFest 2026 | The Difference Between Good and Bad Moderation with Steve Teles · 52 min · Episode 682The Realignment host Marshall Kosloff and Niskanen Center Senior Fellow Steve Teles are set to appear at WelcomeFest 2026 today in Washington, DC. WelcomeFest is known as the…
- How the U.S. Can Deter China from Invading Taiwan in 2027 with Eyck Freymann · 59 min · Episode 681After President Trump's visit to China with his summit with President Xi Jinping, Eyck Freymann, Hoover Fellow at Stanford University and author of Defending Taiwan: A Strategy…
- How to Bring Back National Ambition - Inside the Build America Caucus with Rep. Josh Harder · 59 min · Episode 680Congressman Josh Harder joins The Realignment to discuss why Americans increasingly feel the country has stopped working—and what it would take to rebuild trust in government…
- Season Finale | Danielle Lee Tomson: Why the Future is Fusion · 1 h 21 min · Episode 679Danielle Lee Tomson, author of the forthcoming Under the Influence What's Real When America Feels Fake, returns to The Realignment. Wrapping-up this season of The Realignment…
- 601 | Noam Scheiber: How the Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class Could Reshape America · 56 min · Episode 678Noam Scheiber, New York Times reporter and author of Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Noam discuss how the…
- 600 | Hannah Garden-Monheit: Why Voters Feel Government Doesn't Deliver - Lessons from the Biden Administration · 1 h 5 min · Episode 677Hannah Garden-Monheit, former Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and co-author (with Tresa Joseph, of the Roosevelt Institute's…
- 599 | Henry Tonks: The Realignments Comes for the Democrats - Lessons from Liberalism's 1970s-1990s Wilderness Years · 1 h 26 min · Episode 676Henry Tonks, Postdoctoral Fellow at Kenyon College's Center for the Study of American Democracy, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Henry discuss why the post-2024 election…
- 598 | Madeline Hart: How to Mobilize the American Industrial Base, Embrace Heretics, and Deter WWIII · 56 min · Episode 675Madeline Hart, Co-Founder of Palantir First Breakfast publication and co-author (with Shyam Sankar) of Mobilization: How to Reboot the American Industrial Base and Stop World War…
- 597 | Michael Laskawy: Why States Are the Real Center of American Politics · 52 min · Episode 675Michael Laskawy, Editor-in-Chief of The States Forum Journal, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Michael discuss why Americans are increasingly looking to the states for…
- 596 | Saagar Enjeti: What the Iran War Means for MAGA, the New Right, and the America First Movement · 1 h 4 min · Episode 674Saagar Enjeti, Co-Host of Breaking Points, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Saagar discuss what the escalating conflict between the U.S., Israel, and Iran means for an…
- States Forum Journal | Audio Essay: Marshall Kosloff on "The Missing Liberal Story" · 20 min · Episode 674Today's episode is an audio essay adapted from Marshall's States Forum Journal piece: The Missing Liberal Story. In the essay, Marshall lays out his case for why he believes…
- 595 | Ned Resnikoff: One Year In - Taking Abundance Back to Its Fundamentals · 58 min · Episode 673Ned Resnikoff, Roosevelt Institute and author of Lessons from YIMBYism: Taking “Abundance” Back to Its Fundamentals, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Ned discuss the history…
- 594 | Steve Teles: Hard Lessons for Centrists Trying to Overcome the Mediocrity Challenge + Last Call for Niskanen Summer Institute Applications · 1 h 1 min · Episode 670Steve Teles, Niskanen Center Senior Fellow, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Steve discuss how moderates, centrists, and the Abundance movement can navigate the…
- 593 | Austin Ahlman and Ben Winsor: Seven Hard Lessons on Economic Populism · 1 h 43 min · Episode 669The Open Market Institute's Austin Ahlman and Ben Winsor join The Realignment. Marshall, Austin, and Ben discuss their recommendations on how to effectively wield economic…
- 592 | Laura Field: How the MAGA New Right Took Power - From the Flight 93 Essay to Trump 2024 · 1 h 23 min · Episode 667Laura Field, author of Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Laura discuss the intellectual movement behind Trumpism and the rise…
- 591 | Saikat Chakrabarti: Building a New Consensus - How to Move America from "Failure Mode" to "Mission Mode" · 56 min · Episode 665Saikat Chakrabarti, President and co-founder of New Consensus, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Saikat discuss why an anti-status-quo moment requires more from government and…
- 590 | Brink Lindsey: How the 21st Century Mugged a Libertarian · 1 h 2 min · Episode 663Brink Lindsey, Niskanen Center Senior Vice President and author of The Permanent Problem: The Uncertain Transition from Mass Plenty to Mass Flourishing, joins The Realignment…
- 589 | Danielle Lee Tomson: When the Story Breaks: MAGA, Liberalism, and the Battle to Define Reality · 1 h 15 min · Episode 662Dr. Danielle Lee Tomson, author of the Failure to Communicate Substack and the forthcoming Under the Influence: What's Real When America Feels Fake, returns to The Realignment…
- 588 | George M. Dougherty: Beyond "Unmanned": How Drones Are (and Aren't) Rewriting Warfare · 1 h 8 min · Episode 661George M. Dougherty, author of Beast in the Machine: How Robotics and AI Will Transform Warfare and the Future of Human Conflict, joins The Realignment. Marshall and George…
- 587 | Mike Konczal: What’s Actually Driving the Affordability Crisis + Announcing the Niskanen Summer Institute for Undergrads · 43 min · Episode 660Mike Konczal, Senior Director of Policy and Research at the Economic Security Project and co-author of The Affordability Framework, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Mike…
- 586 | Oliver Libby: Strong Floor, No Ceiling - A Radical Moderate's Case for Reigniting the American Dream · 59 min · Episode 659Oliver Libby, civic investor and author of Strong Floor, No Ceiling: Building a New Foundation for the American Dream, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Oliver discuss his…
- 585 | Chris Matthews: The Politics of Authenticity and Why Robert F. Kennedy Still Matters · 56 min · Episode 658Chris Matthews, former host of MSNBC's Hardball (now on Substack) and author of Lessons from Bobby: Ten Reasons Robert F. Kennedy Still Matters, joins The Realignment. Marshall…
- 584 | Shadi Hamid: A Skeptic's Case for American Power · 1 h 3 min · Episode 657Shadi 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…
- 583 | William D. Hartung & Ben Freeman: The Pentagon's Trillion Dollar War Machine and the Debate Over America's Role in the World · 1 h 6 min · Episode 656The 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…
- 582 | George Packer: The Emergency - The Post-Literate Age and the Unwinding of American Liberalism · 56 min · Episode 655George Packer, Staff Writer at The Atlantic and author of The Emergency, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and George discuss his new work of Fiction: The Emergency, his…
- 581 | Jeffrey Rosen: Hamilton vs. Jefferson and the Battle Over Government Power in 21st Century America · 54 min · Episode 654Jeffrey 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…
- 580 | Jake Tapper: How to Fight and Prosecute Forever Wars from Al Qaeda to Venezuelan Strikes and Mexican Drug Cartels · 37 min · Episode 653Jake 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…
- 579 | Liam Kerr: Deciding to Win: A Centrist Autopsy of the Post-2024 Democratic Party and the Center's Missing Story · 1 h 23 min · Episode 652Liam Kerr, Co-Founder of Welcome and co-author of Deciding to Win: Toward a Common Sense Renewal of the Democratic Party, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Liam discuss…
- 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 min · Episode 651Last 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…
- 578 | Frank DiStefano: The Realignment and America's 21st Century "Crisis of Legitimacy" · 1 h 11 min · Episode 650Frank 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…
- 577 | Steve Teles: Why the Realignment Has Made Think Tanks More Relevant Than Ever · 58 min · Episode 649Steve Teles, Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Steve discuss the past, present, and future of American public policy think tanks, the…
- Giselle Hale: Moving Abundance from Op-Eds to Action - Why Local Elected Officials Are the Missing Piece of the Puzzle · 1 h 1 min · Episode 648Giselle Hale, Managing Partner at the Abundance Network and former Mayor of Redwood City, CA, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Giselle discuss Abundance Network's newly…
- 575 | Doug Most: Pragmatism in Action - WWII Shipbuilding, the Arsenal of Democracy, and Today’s Challenges · 41 min · Episode 647Doug 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…
- 574 | Nancy Scola: The Anti-Monopoly Summit, Abundance 2025, & National Conservatism - What D.C.’s Conference Season Really Revealed · 1 h 9 min · Episode 646Nancy 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…
- 573 | Danielle Lee Tomson: The Story & Authenticity Gap - Why the Center-Left Keeps Losing the Plot · 1 h 20 min · Episode 645Danielle Lee Tomson, author of the forthcoming Under the Influence: What's Real When America Feels Fake, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Danielle discuss the right's…
- 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 h 2 min · Episode 644Steve Teles, Niskanen Senior Fellow and Johns Hopkins University Professor, returns to The Realignment. After a brief note on Charlie Kirk's assassination yesterday in Utah…
- 571 | Steve Teles: The Varieties of Abundance - Why Abundance Isn't Left, Right, or Center · 48 min · Episode 643Steve Teles, Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center, returns to The Realignment. Ahead of next week's 2025 Abundance in DC, Marshall and Steve discuss his new Niskanen Center paper…
- 570 | Dan Wang: China's Engineering State, America's Lawyerly Society, and the Competition for the 21st Century · 1 h 12 min · Episode 642Dan 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…
- 569 | The Shah's Fall, Khomeini's Rise, and What It Means for the U.S. and Iran Today · 50 min · Episode 641Scott Anderson, author of King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion, and Catastrophic Miscalculation, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Scott discuss…
- 568 | Jon Lee Anderson: Was Afghanistan the Graveyard of America's Empire? · 1 h 0 min · Episode 640Jon 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…
- 567 | Sam D'Amico & Noah Smith: Why Electricity Is Eating the World - How the Electric Tech Stack Will Dominate the 21st Century · 54 min · Episode 639Sam D'Amico, Founder & CEO of Impulse Labs, and Noah Smith, author of the Noahpinion Substack, join The Realignment. Marshall, Noah, and Sam discuss how the "Electric Tech…
- 566 | Osita Nwanevu: The Case for a New American Founding: Rethinking Democracy After 2024 · 60 min · Episode 638Osita 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…
- 565 | Daniel Squadron: Rebuilding American Liberalism from the States Up · 60 min · Episode 637Daniel Squadron, former New York legislator and Co-Founder of the States Forum, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Daniel discuss why the center-left and the Democratic Party…
- 564 | Steve Teles: What Democrats Can Learn from the GOP's Trump-Era Upheaval · 43 min · Episode 636In today's episode of The Realignment, the Niskanen Center's Steve Teles returns for a wide-ranging discussion about the Democratic Party's evolution during the Trump-era and…
- 563 | Sam Tanenhaus: William F. Buckley Jr. and the Battle for Political Ideas · 52 min · Episode 635Sam Tanenhaus, author of Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Sam unpack Buckley's influence on today's political…
- 562 | Oren Cass: American Compass and the Right's Trump-Era Realignment · 56 min · Episode 634Oren 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…
- 561 | Jeff Hauser vs. Paul Williams - Debating What the Abundance Agenda Gets Right and Wrong · 1 h 1 min · Episode 633Jeff Hauser, Founder and Executive Director of the Revolving Door Project & Paul E. Williams, Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Public Enterprise, join The…
