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Kyla Scanlon, Bloomberg contributor and author of In This Economy?: How Money & Markets Really Work, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Kyla discuss how she originated the term "Vibecession," and why it perfectly describes the mood of mid-2020s America, educational gaps when it comes to money and market related topics, using social media and publishing tools such as Substack to inform audiences, generational differences, and why she believes the "Abundance Agenda" is the best hope for improving economic opportunity.

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...

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?

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.

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.

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.