The Realignment

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  • 279 | Sprinting Towards Conflict with a Peaking China - Michael Beckley on the Dangers of the Next Decade

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    Michael Beckley, Tufts University professor and co-author (with Hal Brands) of Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China, joins The Realignment to discuss why he believes that China's power relative to the United States will peak in the 2020s, how that makes a catastrophic conflict more, rather than less, likely, and how the United States and its allies should navigate combustible challenges such as defending Taiwan.

    56 min
  • 278 | Why Were Schools Closed So Long During COVID? - Anya Kamenetz on What COVID Did to Children

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    Anya Kamenetz, former NPR education reporter and author of The Stolen Year: How Covid Changed Children's Lives, and Where We Go Now, joins The Realignment to discuss how COVID impacted a generation of school-aged children, how and why we failed to elevate in-person education as an "essential service," and the role public schools play in America's social safety net.

    58 min
  • 277 | Does America’s Most Important Asian Ally Want to Fight? - Tobias Harris on a pacifist Japan in the 21st century

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    Tobias Harris, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and author of The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan, joins The Realignment to discuss the assassination of former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe, how and why he sought to orient Japan away from its post-WWII pacifism, what the "new" Japan looks like, and how the U.S, Japan, and other allies should approach the growing threat of conflict in the Asia-Pacific. 

    58 min
  • 276 | Saagar & Marshall: What Are Realignments? Liz Cheney's Defeat + Trump's Centrality, and U.S.-Taiwan Policy After Pelosi's Visit

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    In today's discussion episode, Saagar and Marshall discuss Rep. Liz Cheney's Republican primary loss, Trump's centrality to the GOP during the lead-up to 2024, whether the GOP's foreign policy stance changed with Trump, and how the U.S. should approach Taiwan after Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit.

    1 hr 21 min
  • 275 | Jason Willick: Mar-a-Lago and Justice in a Divided America

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    Washington Post columnist Jason Willick joins The Realignment to discuss the aftermath of the FBI's search of former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence, how both parties approach federal law enforcement, and the broader question of how the justice system can operate in a zero-sum political world with eroding consensus and trust?

    1 hr 9 min
  • 273 | Elliot Ackerman: Reckoning with America's End in Afghanistan

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    Elliot Ackerman, author of The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan and 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, returns to The Realignment near the first anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Kabul to discuss how the war reshaped American society, the pivot to Great Power competition, and his service during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as a Marine/CIA officer.

    1 hr 1 min
  • 272 | Frank DiStefano: Why Democrats & Republicans Haven't Realigned (Yet)

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    Frank DiStefano, author of The Next Realignment: Why America's Parties Are Crumbling and What Happens Next, joins The Realignment's weekly discussion episode to unpack what causes political parties to realign, the debate over what America's political problems/challenges, whether existing parties should be reformed with new ideas, figures, and coalitions, and the show's long-running debate over third/new political parties.

    1 hr 6 min

About The Realignment

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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…

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