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The Abundance Agenda – People's Policy Project

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Rotimi Adeoye, columnist and MSNBC contributor, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Rotimi discuss the takeaways from Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's Abundance book tour as the abundance agenda picks up steam, the impact of Bernie Sanders and AOC's anti-oligarchy tour, the strengths and weaknesses of the very online attempts to build a Democratic Party equivalent of the GOP's 2010s Tea Party movement, and the difficulties of navigating immigration politics during an era of anti-establishment backlash.

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Richard D. Kahlenberg, author of Class Matters: The Fight to Get Beyond Race Preferences, Reduce Inequality, and Build Real Diversity at America’s Colleges and Director of the American Identity Project at the Progressive Policy Institute, returns to The Realignment. Richard and Marshall discuss the future of higher education after the Supreme Court ended race-based affirmative action, why America's "river of power" runs through the Ivy League, tensions between class-based affirmative action and differing visions of "merit," higher education's response to the Trump administration's attacks, and the role of public, non-elite institutions in promoting economic opportunity.

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Mallory McMorrow, Michigan State Senator and author of Hate Won't Win: Find Your Power and Leave This Place Better Than You Found It, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Mallory discuss Michigan's role in American politics in 2024 and beyond, the Abundance Agenda and the centrality of the affordability crisis and government failure for voters, her viral 2022 speech, the end of traditional and 2010s digital media's ability to gatekeep, the differing experiences of Millennials and Gen Z, the rising gender gap between young men and women, and how Democrats should respond to culture war issues.

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Rep. Jake Auchincloss on Why Democrats Need New Big Ideas | TIME

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Edward Fishman, author of Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare, joins The Realignment. Edward and Marshall discuss the rise of economic warfare, from the War on Terror to the Obama administration's Iran nuclear deal and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, economic warfare track record when it comes to accomplishing desired political outcomes, the impact of American sanctions on Russia and whether their effects were overstated at the war's outset, the potential deterring effects of economic warfare, their potential use in a U.S.-China conflict over Taiwan, and the greater meaning of the end of the globalization era of the 1990s and 2000s.

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Ezra Klein, host of the Ezra Klein Show and co-author of Abundance, joins The Realignment. Ezra and Marshall discuss the Abundance Agenda, the housing crisis, the failure to build infrastructure and clean energy in Blue States, why 21st century liberalism needs an update, abundance's place in the Democratic Party's coalition, and whether wonky ideas can translate into winning political agendas.

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Cost Disease Socialism: How Subsidizing Costs While Restricting Supply Drives America’s Fiscal Imbalance - Niskanen Center

The rise of the abundance faction - Niskanen Center

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Felicia Wong, Principal at the Roosevelt Institute, and Steve Teles, Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center and Johns Hopkins University Professor, return to The Realignment. Felicia, Steve, and Marshall debate and discuss the tensions between the rising "Abundance Agenda" faction and left populists, the role of unions, whether one can focus on increasing the supply of scarce goods and lowering prices while also addressing inequality, how to increase the effectiveness of government, and what a synthesis of different parts of the center to left spectrum could look like in 2028 and beyond.

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George P. Bush, former Texas Land Commissioner, joins The Realignment for the first of a multi-month series on Texas and the future of American politics. Marshall and George discuss the lace and role of Texas in America's political realignment, the rise and fall of Blue Texas from the 2010s-2024, the impact of minorities moving to the right, the complexities of Latino identity, how politicians will respond to the rise of podcasts, his interest in AI's impact on elections, and preview upcoming coverage and interviews on Texas politics and policy.

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Didi Kuo, author of The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don't, joins the Niskanen Center's Steve Teles and Marshall on The Realignment. Didi, Steve, and Marshall discuss why political parties have reached record levels of unpopularity in the United States, what "good" political parties could look like, the history of party reform organizations like the Democratic Leadership Council of the 1980s and 1990s, the positive case for political parties as a way of organizing the will of the people, and the differences between the American party system and alternatives across the democratic world. 

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Yoni Appelbaum, author of Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity and Deputy Executive Director of The Atlantic, joins The Realignment. Yoni and Marshall discuss the state of the American Dream, the country's sliding reputation as the "land of opportunity" since the 1970s, why Americans are increasingly immobile, the 19th century heyday of moving, the role of zoning laws and new construction restriction in rising housing prices and immobility, and how to help Americans who don't want to leave their communities.