Noam Bardin, founder and CEO of Post, joins The Realignment. Noam and Marshall discuss his vision for social media in a post-Twitter world, why micropayments could provide a sustainable business model for media organizations and creators, how 2020s social media differs from its 2000s-2010s heyday, and what it means for the internet to decentralize away from legacy platforms.

373 | Noam Bardin: Building the Future of News & Social in a Post-Twitter World

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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Stephanie Ternullo, author of How the Heartland Went Red: Why Local Forces Matter in an Age of Nationalized Politics and Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Stephanie discuss how focusing on local contexts helps explain why White voters continue to shift to the right, why the New Deal coalition broke down, the debate over whether all politics is local or increasingly nationalized, and how these dynamics defined the 2016 and 2020 elections.

482 | Stephanie Ternullo: How Democrats Lost White Voters in the Heartland

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.

481 | Kyla Scanlon: Why America Is Stuck in a "Vibecession"

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...

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...

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?

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

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.

373 | Noam Bardin: Building the Future of News & Social in a Post-Twitter World

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