Benjamin Herold, education reporter and author of Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs, joins The Realignment. Benjamin and Marshall discuss the rise and fall of suburbia through the lens of five families, why many middle-class suburbs resemble a Ponzi scheme, debates between progressives and the liberal status quo over race, the role of school choice, and the state of the American dream.

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0:00 - Introduction
0:57 - Current view of suburbs
4:02 - Different visions of the suburbs
7:10 - Texas suburbs
13:52 - Opportunity as a resource
18:52 - Unsustainability
21:30 - Subsidies and government support
24:54 - Solutions
27:52 - Education
39:00 - Race
51:30 - Fixing things where they are
55:01 - COVID & future of suburbs