Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent for The Week and the author of the forthcoming book How Are You Going to Pay for That?

Health Care Reform’s History of Utter Failure

Health Care Reform’s History of Utter Failure Health Care Reform’s History of Utter Failure

Cohn shows how repeated failures by Democrats and Republicans to get a decent policy through our 18th-century constitutional structure led to the strategy that produced the Afforda...

Nov 28, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Ryan Cooper

How Obama-Era Economics Sold Us Short

How Obama-Era Economics Sold Us Short How Obama-Era Economics Sold Us Short

Faced with the shattering 2008 crisis, Obama and his key advisers largely sought to restore the wobbly pre-crisis status quo.

Apr 6, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Ryan Cooper

What Political Scientists Get Wrong About 2016

What Political Scientists Get Wrong About 2016 What Political Scientists Get Wrong About 2016

While their evidence about the racism of many American voters is indisputable, their attempt to discount the role economics plays in this racism and in voting behavior in general i...

Aug 26, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Ryan Cooper

The Rise and Fall of Clintonism

The Rise and Fall of Clintonism The Rise and Fall of Clintonism

What two recent books on Bill and Hillary tell us about the political and economic costs of the New Democrats.

Feb 14, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Ryan Cooper

George McGovern’s Alternative Path for the Democratic Party

George McGovern’s Alternative Path for the Democratic Party George McGovern’s Alternative Path for the Democratic Party

His populism and internationalism provide an excellent foundation for a badly needed new approach by the American left.

Aug 8, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Ryan Cooper

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