The Realignment

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/.REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentFoundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-faiRebecca Grant, author of Birth: Three Mothers, Nine Months, and Pregnancy in America, joins The Realignment. Rebecca and Marshall discuss her time profiling mothers in Portland, Oregon from pregnancy to birth, America's high maternal mortality rate, why hospital-based births have gotten so expensive compared to other industrialized countries, and alternative approaches to birth and pregnancy outside the hospital system.

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Emmet Penney, Editor-in-Chief of Grid Brief and host of the Nuclear Barbarians podcast, joins The Realignment to discuss Germany's decision to shut down its remaining nuclear reactors, why the U.S. hasn't vastly expanded its nuclear power capacity over the past year, the 1970s roots of the country's broken energy grid, decarbonization tradeoffs, and the lack of a broad pro-nuclear political coalition.Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/.REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmmet's American Affairs Writing: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/author/emmet-penney/Grid Brief: https://www.gridbrief.com/Nuclear Barbarians: https://nuclearbarians.substack.com/

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WANT TO LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE? SUBSCRIBE TO OUR SUPERCAST: https://realignment.supercast.com/In today's bonus episode for Supercast subscribers, Saagar and Marshall discuss the election results from Wisconsin and Chicago, Trump's court appearance, their guest spots on Flagrant & Krystal Kyle and Friends, their upcoming summer plans, and America's shifting demographics and geography.

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/.REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: realignmentpod@gmail.comHenry Olsen, Washington Post columnist, senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and author of The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism, joins The Realignment. Henry and Marshall discuss how the GOP of 2023 differs from its pre-Trump iteration, why the extent to which the GOP is a personal vehicle for Trump is the central question facing the right leading into 2024, whether Ron DeSantis is able to meet the moment, and where his "four factions" that compose the GOP's coalition stand.