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Steve Coll, author of The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq and Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Steve discuss America's decades-long relationship with Saddam Hussein before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the CIA's intelligence failures that led to radical misinterpretations of Saddam's ambitions after the Gulf War, the Iraq War's significance 20 years later, and how past mistakes can inform today's assessments of Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin. 

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Carlos Lozada, New York Times columnist and author of The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians & What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era, joins The Realignment. Carlos and Marshall discuss how people in power reveal themselves through their books and writings, the books and ideas that defined the Trump era (2004-2028?), his presidential biography recommendations, and the role the "Washington book" plays in the D.C. day-to-day.

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Jacob Heilbrunn, Editor of The National Interest and author of America Last: The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators, returns to The Realignment. Jacob and Marshall discuss how the American right and left cozied up to foreign autocrats during the 20th century, why he believes the far-right's sympathies with autocrats are more relevant to today's policy debates than the left's sympathy with communist regimes, the differences between good faith skepticism of the U.S. foreign policy establishment and bad faith sympathy towards autocrats, and the parallels between modern day isolationists and the Bush-era Neoconservative movement.   

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Alexander Ward, Politico reporter and author of The Internationalists: The Fight to Restore American Foreign Policy After Trump, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Alexander discuss the Biden foreign policy team and agenda's origins in the wake of Trump's surprise 2016 election, whether foreign policy does (or doesn't) determine election outcomes, where the Biden foreign policy builds upon and distances itself from Trump's, the conflicts, events, and regions that shaped 2021-2024: China, Kabul, Ukraine, and why the Biden team's orientation is best described as "internationalist" versus Trump's "nationalists." 

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In the latest edition of The Realignment's weekend Ask Me Anything and discussion series, Saagar and Marshall discuss Saagar's Apple Vision Pro review, OpenAI's Sora AI video generation product, and answer subscriber-exclusive questions on the cases for and against Biden and Trump, how to fix the immigration system, their latest reading, and more...

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Sarah Scoles, author of Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Sarah discuss why nuclear weapons have regained their Cold War relevance, the modern nuclear weapons landscape, efforts to modernize America's vintage nuclear stockpile, and prospects for the nuclear status-quo, proliferation, and abolishment. 

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Jeffrey Rosen, President & CEO of the National Constitution Center and author of The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Jeffrey discuss the Greek and Roman roots of early American political thought, why the founders focused on the pursuit of "virtue," why classical education has become partisan in the 21st century, and the role of education and self-development in the formation of leaders. 

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Benn Steil, author of The World That Wasn't: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century and Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, joins The Realignment. Benn and Marshall discuss the origins of the Cold War and postwar U.S. foreign policy through the career of Henry Wallace, FDR's VP before Harry Truman. They discuss despite claims from critics of U.S. foreign policy like the director Oliver Stone, a Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union was inevitable. 

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The Atlantic: The Age of American Naval Dominance Is Over

A Period of Consequences Speech

Jerry's Broader Writing on Naval Power:  Hendrix and Associates

Dr. Jerry Hendrix, Senior Fellow at the Sagamore Institute and author of To Provide and Maintain: Why Naval Primacy Is America's First Best Strategy, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Jerry discuss the conflict with Yemen's Houthi rebels and a potential conflict in Asia through a naval lens, the case for increasing the size of the U.S. Navy, what a proper mix of carriers, aircraft, and drones in the fleet would look like, and the need to revitalize the defense industrial base. 

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Jonathan Blitzer, author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis, joins The Realignment. Jonathan and Marshall discuss the Central American origins of the border crisis, the origins and state of the asylum system, why the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations have struggled to "solve" the U.S.-Mexico border, and why we can expect future border showdowns for the foreseeable future.