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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 2018Beyond the madness: Donald Trump and the resetting of America’s social contract
Away 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 Anglo-American Centre-Left and the immediate question of agency
The 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 2016The grief before the storm
Overcoming 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 Democratic primaries in the shadow of neoliberalism
The 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 ongoing American housing crisis
The 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 2016Working-class anger and the problem of progressive politics
The 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 2015TPP time in America
President 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 2015Getting ready for Donald Trump
It 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 2015Labour’s historic defeat: learning the right lessons
Designing 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 American economy at mid-term
The 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 2014Paul Ryan as the Prince of Paupers
The 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 2014America’s War on Poverty, America’s War on the Poor
Fifty 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 2013Social security in the cross-hairs
The 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 2013The American student debt crisis: the next financial time bomb?
Staggering levels of student debt are strangling the US economic recovery
Swopping conservatives
David Coates - 29 July 2013Swopping conservatives
American conservatism has shifted so far to the right we almost need a new term to describe it
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