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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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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.

    Saagar & Marshall Supercast AMA & Discussion Preview: Debating Israel, Gaza, and the U.S. Response, America's Alliance System, Breaking Points on Rumble, 2024 Prospects, and More...

    Saagar & Marshall Supercast AMA & Discussion Preview: Debating Israel, Gaza, and the U.S. Response, America's Alliance System, Breaking Points on Rumble, 2024 Prospects, and More...

    In the latest edition of The Realignment's weekend Ask Me Anything and discussion series, Saagar and Marshall debate and discuss how the U.S. should have approached Israel's war against Hamas, the impacts of Israel-Palestine on the 2024 election, Biden vs. Trump's electoral prospects, Breaking Points's transition to Rumble, and more...

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    480 | Heath Brown: Did Biden's Rocky Transition to the Presidency Set His Administration Up for Failure?

    480 | Heath Brown: Did Biden's Rocky Transition to the Presidency Set His Administration Up for Failure?

    Heath Brown, author of Roadblocked: Joe Biden's Rocky Transition to the Presidency and Associate Professor CUNY's John Jay College of Criminal Justice, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Heath discuss the increasing political significance and attention paid to presidential transitions, why the transition from Trump to Biden went poorly, how outside interests groups influence incoming administrations, the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, and whether Biden should have aimed for a "transformational" presidency in the first place?

    • 1 hr 5 min
    479 | David Ignatius: The First Space War, Ukraine & China Challenges, Biden's Age, and America's New Age of Reform

    479 | David Ignatius: The First Space War, Ukraine & China Challenges, Biden's Age, and America's New Age of Reform

    David Ignatius, Washington Post columnist and author of Phantom Orbit: A Thriller, joins The Realignment. David and Marshall why outer space defines the present and future of great power conflict, Ukraine's path forward, how to avert a hot war with China, the state of Biden's 2024 campaign, and why America is overdue for an era of political reform in the spirit of Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive movement.

    • 55 min
    478 | Craig Whitlock: The Story of "Fat Leonard" - How One Man Seduced and Corrupted the U.S. Navy

    478 | Craig Whitlock: The Story of "Fat Leonard" - How One Man Seduced and Corrupted the U.S. Navy

    Craig Whitlock, Washington Post reporter and author of Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy & The Afghanistan Papers, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Craig discuss how a Malaysian defense contractor, Leonard Francis (nicknamed "Fat Leonard"), bribed scores of high-ranking U.S. Navy officers across three decades, defrauded the Navy out of tens of millions of dollars, exposed vast security and counter-intelligence gaps in the military, and the reforms needed to prevent future corruption scandals.

    • 59 min
    477 | Nellie Bowles: Waking Up the Morning After the 2020 Revolution

    477 | Nellie Bowles: Waking Up the Morning After the 2020 Revolution

    Nellie Bowles, writer, former New York Times reporter, and author of Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Nellie discuss why some of the most educated people in America lost their minds in 2020, what she learned investigating and reporting on Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) and Antifa protests in Portland, and why 2020 reckoning inspired moves like abolishing the SAT, defunding the police, and drug decriminalization are running out of steam.

    • 1 hr 1 min
    476 | Edward F. O'Keefe: The Era, Women, and Realignment That Made Theodore Roosevelt

    476 | Edward F. O'Keefe: The Era, Women, and Realignment That Made Theodore Roosevelt

    Edward F. O'Keefe, CEO of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation and author of The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President, joins The Realignment. He joins the show as part of The Realignment's coverage of the American presidency during the lead up to the 2024 election. Marshall and Edward discuss why they believe Theodore Roosevelt is the most compelling and interesting president, the ways that Roosevelt's rugged 19th century masculinity was shsaped by his mother, sisters, and wives, how he navigated America's industrial era realignment, and the future plans to build a Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota.

    • 51 min

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