David Coates
Professor of Anglo-American Studies, Wake Forest University, North Carolina
Beyond the madness: Donald Trump and the resetting of America’s social contract
David Coates - 19 January 2018Away from the White House chaos an ultra-conservative Republican Party is building an America for the rich and privileged
The Anglo-American Centre-Left and the immediate question of agency
David Coates - 18 September 2017The Democrats and the Labour Party have been on the defensive for too long. Winning again requires a progressive re-radicalization of politics
The grief before the storm
David Coates - 05 December 2016Overcoming the grief caused by Trump’s victory requires us to analyse the sources of our pain
The Democratic primaries in the shadow of neoliberalism
David Coates - 02 June 2016The Clinton/Sanders battle exposes the challenge of the centre-left to overcome its pre-crisis accommodation with neoliberalism
The ongoing American housing crisis
David Coates - 29 March 2016The US housing crisis may have slipped down the political agenda but it hasn’t gone away – and young people are being hardest hit
Working-class anger and the problem of progressive politics
David Coates - 07 January 2016The only effective answer to right-wing populism is the creation and deployment of a superior left-wing alternative
TPP time in America
David Coates - 23 November 2015President Obama may view this as his legacy, but it may well not be something of which he will long be proud
Getting ready for Donald Trump
David Coates - 09 September 2015It is time to begin worrying about his misguided, superficial and bombastic approach to US problems and politics
Labour’s historic defeat: learning the right lessons
David Coates - 14 May 2015Designing and refining a new growth strategy that rejects austerity are the most pressing tasks before us
The American economy at mid-term
David Coates - 28 October 2014The numbers don’t reflect the reality and give no cause for crowing over the Eurozone
Paul Ryan as the Prince of Paupers
David Coates - 15 April 2014The hard-nosed approach to poverty from the American Right is a threat to long-term democratic stability in the United States
America’s War on Poverty, America’s War on the Poor
David Coates - 14 February 2014Fifty years after Lyndon Johnson’s vision, American politicians desperately need to reinvigorate the stalled campaign against poverty
Social security in the cross-hairs
David Coates - 27 November 2013The last remaining pillar of the New Deal era is increasingly endangered
The American student debt crisis: the next financial time bomb?
David Coates - 26 September 2013Staggering levels of student debt are strangling the US economic recovery
Swopping conservatives
David Coates - 29 July 2013American conservatism has shifted so far to the right we almost need a new term to describe it