The Realignment

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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463 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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Nikhil Goyal
420 | Nikhil Goyal: Child Poverty Doubled Last Year - What Does that Mean for Our Safety Net? · Oct 2023

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Noam Maggor

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Noam Scheiber
601 | Noam Scheiber: How the Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class Could Reshape America · Apr 2026

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Oliver Libby
586 | Oliver Libby: Strong Floor, No Ceiling - A Radical Moderate's Case for Reigniting the American Dream · Dec 2025

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Parag Khanna
168 | Parag Khanna: How Migration and Asia Will Define the 21st Century · Oct 2021

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Patrick Ruffini
425 | Patrick Ruffini: Inside the Multiracial Populist Coalition Remaking the GOP · Nov 2023

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Pete Newell
347 | Driving Battlefield Innovation from Afghanistan & Iraq to Ukraine and Beyond with Pete Newell · Feb 2023

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Peter Leyden
265 | Peter Leyden: Is California the Future of American Politics? · Jul 2022

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Phil Klay
245 | Phil Klay: Citizenship in an Age of Endless & Invisible Wars · May 2022

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Philip Bump
341 | The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America with Philip Bump · Feb 2023

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Rebecca Grant
364 | Rebecca Grant: Why Birth, Motherhood, and Pregnancy Are at the Center of American Politics · Apr 2023

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Renu Mukherjee
#360 | Renu Mukherjee: The End of Affirmative Action and the Future of Higher Education · Apr 2023

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Ret. General Dan Bolger
151 | Ret. General Dan Bolger: Why We Lost in Afghanistan and Iraq · Aug 2021

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Richard Kahlenberg
545 | Richard D. Kahlenberg: Is Class-Based Affirmative Action the Future of Higher Education? · 2 episodes

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Robert D. Kaplan
399 | Robert D. Kaplan: America Between Empire & Anarchy in the Greater Middle East · Aug 2023

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Robert Farley
220 | Robert Farley: Air Wars in Ukraine and Beyond · Mar 2022

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Robert Lighthizer
382 | Robert Lighthizer: Building the New Pro-Worker Trade Consensus · Jun 2023

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Ronald Daniels
169 | Johns Hopkins University President Ronald Daniels: What Universities Owe Democracy · Oct 2021

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Rotimi Adeoye
546 | Rotimi Adeoye: Where Does Abundance, the Anti-Oligarchy Movement, and the Dem Tea Party Go Next? · Apr 2025

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Rush Doshi
Introducing "Endless Frontiers": CFR's Rush Doshi on the U.S.-China Challenge · Apr 2025

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Ruy Teixeira

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Ryan Craig
430 | Ryan Craig: How Apprenticeships Will Create a Stronger and Fairer America · Nov 2023

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Sachit Gupta
BONUS | Ep. 86: A Realignment Podcast About Podcasting with Sachit Gupta · Jan 2021

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Saikat Chakrabarti
591 | Saikat Chakrabarti: Building a New Consensus - How to Move America from "Failure Mode" to "Mission Mode" · Jan 2026

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Sam Tanenhaus
563 | Sam Tanenhaus: William F. Buckley Jr. and the Battle for Political Ideas · Jul 2025

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Sara Sadhwani
RE: Something Interesting - Sara Sadhwani & Juan Diego Ramirez on America's Racial Realignment and the 2024 Election · Aug 2024

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Saurabh Sharma

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Sean A. Mirski
383 | Sean A. Mirski: How the USA's Rise to Regional Hegemony Rhymes with China's · Jun 2023

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Sean McFate
223 | Sean McFate: The New Rules of War for the Age of Durable Disorder · Mar 2022

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Seth D. Kaplan
417 | Seth D. Kaplan: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time · Oct 2023

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Seth G. Jones
228 | Seth G. Jones: Irregular Warfare and the Future of Global Competition After Ukraine · Apr 2022

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Shannon K. O'Neil
325 | Shannon K. O'Neil: The Globalization Myth - Why Regions Matter · Dec 2022

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Stephanie Baker
505 | Stephanie Baker: Lessons from the Unprecedented Economic War to Stop Russia in Ukraine · Sep 2024

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Stephanie Ternullo
482 | Stephanie Ternullo: How Democrats Lost White Voters in the Heartland · May 2024

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Steve Coll
459 | Steve Coll: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and the Perils of Misreading Dictator's Ambitions · Feb 2024

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Steve Drummond
369 | Steve Drummond: How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win WWII · May 2023

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Steve LeVine
184 | Steve LeVine: The U.S. and China’s Great EV Battery War and the Next Supply Chain Crunch · Dec 2021

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Steven Kurutz
RE: Something Interesting | Steven Kurutz on the Entrepreneurs Bringing the Art & Business of Making Clothes Back to the USA · Apr 2024

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Steven McGregor
263 | Steven McGregor: Will the U.S. Win the Next Battle of Midway? · Jul 2022

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Steven Simon
#362 | Steven Simon: The Rise and Fall of America's Grand Delusion in the Middle East · Apr 2023

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