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Season Finale | Danielle Lee Tomson: Why the Future is Fusion

Danielle Lee Tomson with Oxford University Press | Under the Influence: What's Real When America Feels Fake: https://global.oup.com/academic...

01:21:42Apr 15, 2026

601 | Noam Scheiber: How the Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class Could Reshape America

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00:56:22Apr 7, 2026

600 | Hannah Garden-Monheit: Why Voters Feel Government Doesn't Deliver - Lessons from the Biden Administration

Roosevelt Institute | Building a More Effective, Responsive Government: Lessons Learned from the Biden-Harris Administration: https://roosev...

01:05:05Apr 2, 2026

599 | Henry Tonks: The Realignments Comes for the Democrats - Lessons from Liberalism's 1970s-1990s Wilderness Years

American Affairs | Henry Tonks - The Rise and Fall of the New Liberals: How the Democrats Lost Their Majority: https://americanaffairsjourna...

01:26:06Mar 31, 2026

598 | Madeline Hart: How to Mobilize the American Industrial Base, Embrace Heretics, and Deter WWIII

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00:55:58Mar 24, 2026

597 | Michael Laskawy: Why States Are the Real Center of American Politics

The States Forum Journal's Latest Issue: https://www.statesforum.org/journals/issue-2/ The States Forum Substack: https://statesforum.substa...

00:51:43Mar 10, 2026

596 | Saagar Enjeti: What the Iran War Means for MAGA, the New Right, and the America First Movement

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01:04:48Mar 9, 2026

States Forum Journal | Audio Essay: Marshall Kosloff on "The Missing Liberal Story"

The States Forum Journal | The Missing Liberal Story: https://www.statesforum.org/the-missing-liberal-story/ The States Forum Journal Substa...

00:20:00Feb 24, 2026

595 | Ned Resnikoff: One Year In - Taking Abundance Back to Its Fundamentals

Roosevelt Institute | Lessons from YIMBYism: Taking “Abundance” Back to Its Fundamentals: https://rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/lesson...

00:57:43Feb 19, 2026

594 | Steve Teles: Hard Lessons for Centrists Trying to Overcome the Mediocrity Challenge + Last Call for Niskanen Summer Institute Applications

Niskanen Summer Institute: https://www.niskanencenter.org/niskanen-summer-institute-democracy-that-works/ Steve Teles | Varieties of Abundan...

01:01:10Feb 17, 2026

593 | Austin Ahlman and Ben Winsor: Seven Hard Lessons on Economic Populism

Liberty and Power: 7 Hard Lessons Democrats Must Learn in 2026 Realignment Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Realignment Book...

01:43:07Feb 12, 2026

592 | Laura Field: How the MAGA New Right Took Power - From the Flight 93 Essay to Trump 2024

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01:23:06Feb 5, 2026

591 | Saikat Chakrabarti: Building a New Consensus - How to Move America from "Failure Mode" to "Mission Mode"

New Consensus | Mission for America: https://www.newconsensus.com/mfa New Consensus | Reading List: https://www.newconsensus.com/library Rea...

00:56:05Jan 29, 2026

590 | Brink Lindsey: How the 21st Century Mugged a Libertarian

*Gallup, not Axios as cited in episode, reporting on higher liberal identification: https://news.gallup.com/poll/700499/new-high-identify-po...

01:02:43Jan 22, 2026

589 | Danielle Lee Tomson: When the Story Breaks: MAGA, Liberalism, and the Battle to Define Reality

Failure to Communicate Substack: https://failuretocommunicate.substack.com/ Danielle Lee Tomson: https://failuretocommunicate.substack.com/p...

01:15:26Jan 8, 2026

588 | George M. Dougherty: Beyond "Unmanned": How Drones Are (and Aren't) Rewriting Warfare

Niskanen Summer Institute: https://www.niskanencenter.org/niskanen-summer-institute-democracy-that-works/ Realignment Newsletter: https://th...

01:08:28Jan 6, 2026

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

Niskanen Summer Institute: https://www.niskanencenter.org/niskanen-summer-institute-democracy-that-works/ The Affordability Framework: https...

00:42:52Dec 19, 2025

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

Oliver Libby Forbes Profile: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nelldebevoise/2025/11/11/why-americas-next-big-idea-isnt-about-doing-more--its-abo...

00:59:09Dec 16, 2025

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

Hardball Substack: https://thechrismatthews.substack.com/ Realignment Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Realignment Bookshop:...

00:56:00Dec 9, 2025

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

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01:03:24Dec 2, 2025

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

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01:06:53Nov 13, 2025

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

The Atlantic | A Post-Literate Age: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/journalism-literature-media-trump/684752/ Realignment...

00:56:10Nov 11, 2025

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

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00:53:55Nov 7, 2025

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

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00:36:55Nov 4, 2025

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

Deciding to Win Report: Deciding To Win – Toward A Common Sense Renewal of the Democratic Party Semafor: Left-wing ideas have wrecked Democr...

01:23:35Oct 30, 2025

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

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00:27:08Oct 28, 2025

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

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01:11:21Oct 14, 2025

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

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00:57:47Oct 7, 2025

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

https://abundanceelected.com/about-us/ https://www.axios.com/2025/09/03/democrats-abundance-movement-group Realignment Newsletter: https://t...

01:01:47Oct 2, 2025

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

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00:40:58Sep 25, 2025

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

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01:09:11Sep 18, 2025

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

Failure to Communicate Substack: https://failuretocommunicate.substack.com/ Danielle Lee Tomson: https://failuretocommunicate.substack.com/p...

01:20:28Sep 16, 2025

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

Must-Read on Political Violence in America: Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Vio...

01:02:56Sep 11, 2025

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

Varieties of Abundance: https://www.niskanencenter.org/abundance-varieties/ PDF Version: https://www.niskanencenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2...

00:48:15Aug 28, 2025

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

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01:12:02Aug 26, 2025

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

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00:50:05Aug 21, 2025

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

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01:00:38Aug 19, 2025

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

Noah Smith's Substack: www.noahpinion.blog Impulse Labs: www.impulselabs.com Fast Company on Impulse Labs: Innovation by Design 2024: Impuls...

00:54:24Aug 14, 2025

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

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00:59:40Aug 12, 2025

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

NYT: New Democratic Group Says Answer to the Party’s Woes Lies With the States States Forum Journal: Adam Pritzker & Daniel Squadron - First...

00:59:58Aug 5, 2025

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

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00:42:36Jul 31, 2025

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

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: ht...

00:52:26Jul 29, 2025

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

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00:56:06Jul 24, 2025

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

Abundance 2025 REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therea...

01:01:29Jul 15, 2025

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

Open Philanthropy Job Posting: Program Associate/Senior Program Associate, Abundance and Growth (Generalist Track) @ Open Philanthropy Refer...

01:03:02Jul 10, 2025

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

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01:02:05Jun 25, 2025

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

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00:25:14Jun 12, 2025

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

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...

00:53:50Jun 10, 2025

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

Abundance vs. Populism Polling: Poll: Democratic voters prefer "populism" over "abundance" REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.su...

00:39:17Jun 3, 2025

555 | Gary Gerstle & Noam Maggor: The Realignment, Post-Neoliberalism, and the Birth of a New Political Order

Post-Neoliberalism Conference: Beyond Neoliberalism REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKS...

01:12:46May 29, 2025