David Coates

Index of Posts

• Posting…. (3) The Limits of Labour Party Electoralism and the Requirements of Hegemonic Politics
• Postings… (2) Standard Dilemmas of Centre-Left Politics
• Postings to Mark the Publication of ‘Flawed Capitalism’ (1) The Four Central theses of Flawed Capitalism
• Beyond the Madness: Donald Trump and the Resetting of America’s Social Contract
• Donald J. Trump and the Slow Arrival of Buyers’ Remorse
• The Anglo-American Centre-Left and the Problem of Agency
• Taking Supper with Trump – The Need for a Very Long Spoon
• Trump and Afghanistan: Old Problems and New Dangers
• Donald J. Trump as a “Morbid Symptom”
• Taking Comfort from the Success of Others
• American Lessons from a British Election – Progressives, take heart!
• Wishing the Democratic Party a Healthy Easter Recess
• Pulling the Trump Problem into Sharper Focus and Full Vision
• The Politics of Business, and the Business of Politics, in the World of Donald J. Trump
• Unpacking the Inaugural Address of Donald J Trump
• Ten Things to tell Donald Trump
• Troubling Omens as We Approach the Presidency of Donald J. Trump
• Reflections on the Obama Presidency: (4) Leaving Bipartisanship Behind
• Reflections on the Obama Presidency: (3) The Price of Moderation
• Reflections on the Obama Presidency: (2) The politics of gridlock
• Reflections on the Obama Presidency: (1) The gap between promise and performance
• Second Thoughts on the Victory of Donald Trump
• First thoughts on the Trump Victory
• Minimizing the Legacy of Donald J Trump
• Treating Donald Trump as Just Another Republican Presidential Nominee
• Donald Trump: the Politics of Fear and Violence
• Extracting the United States from a Condition of Permanent War
• Tony Blair’s Day of Reckoning
• History Once as Tragedy, Twice as Farce? American lessons from a British referendum
• Democratic Primaries in the Shadow of Neoliberalism
• Horses for Courses? The Candidates and the Economy.
• The Democrats and the Donald
• The Housing Crisis of the Young
• Common Weaknesses in the Republicans’ Tax Proposals
• Working Class Anger and the Problem of Progressive Politics
• How Best to Separate Donald Trump from his Base
• Questions that go unanswered as we drift to a State of Permanent War
• TPP Time in America
• Waiting for the TPP
• Challenging Republican Premises: On the Cutting of Taxes
• Getting ready for Trump
• Taking Donald Trump Seriously
• Jeremy who? The Bernie Sanders Phenomenon at Home and Abroad
• The Republican Juggernaut Marching Us to War
• Trade Deals and the Importance of Political Gridlock
• UK Foreign Policy
• Labour’s Historic Defeat: Learning the Right Lessons
• The U.K. Election: U.S. Lessons
• Different elections, similar issues: the UK and the US at the polls
• Judging Presidential Candidates against our criteria rather than theirs (1) Poverty
• The Invisibility of Class, and the Hegemony of Conservative Ideas, in Contemporary America
• Weighing the Arguments on U.S. Military Action against ISIS
• Hammocks and Ladders: The Poverty of Republican Thinking on the Poor
• The Case for Slowly Getting Out of the Empire Business
• The President’s “Queen’s Speech”- Too Little, Too Late?
• New Year Reflections on the US Global Role.
• Taking the Imperial out of American Imperialism
• The Mid-Term Elections: Taking the Longer View
• The American Economy at Mid-Term
• Hype & Reality: American Economic Numbers
• Playing Defense and Still Losing
• Tea Party Time on both sides of the Atlantic
• Responding to David Brooks: The Question of Poverty and Character
• Defending Trade Unions while the Justices are Away.
• Economics and the Gathering Storm
• Reflections on Economic Under-performance on Both Sides of the Atlantic
• Winning in November by Defending the Affordable Care Act Now.
• Progressives Politics after Piketty: Making the Case for Managed Markets
• Dozing through “the Great Moving Right Show”
• Paul Ryan as the Prince of Paupers
• The Poverty of Policy on Poverty
• The Cost of Empire? Extracts from “America in the Shadow of Empires” (forthcoming)
• The Long-Term State of the Union – Counting the Cost of Empire?
• The State of the Union Address – Taking the Longer View
• In Defense of the NHS
• America’s War on Poverty, America’s War on the Poor
• New Year Reflections: The Character of the Task before Us
• Social Security in the Cross-Hairs
• Negative Freedom or Positive Freedom: Time to Choose?
• Advice to Progressives in a Conservative State
• Placing the Affordable Care Act in the Wider Debate on Healthcare Systems
• Like father, like son? Ralph Miliband’s political legacy
• The American Student Debt Crisis: The Next Financial Timebomb?
• Exactly how is the Affordable Care Act an affront to freedom?
• The Half-Forgotten Student Debt Crisis
• Back to Basics on the Question of Labor
• Revisiting “Resisting Republican Excess”
• Resisting Republican Excess
• Swopping Conservatives
• Half-forgotten or Totally Forgotten – Poverty in America?
• European Lessons for an America in Debt
• Observing British Labour Politics from Afar
• The Half-forgotten Debt Crisis
• America’s Half-forgotten Housing Crisis
• Gridlock in Washington: Conservative Heaven!
• The Forgotten Jobs Crisis
• Tomorrow’s Presidential Budget: Questions of Judgment?
• Budgets to the right of us, budgets to the left of us: budgets, budgets everywhere!
• The Problem with Charm Offensives: If They Are Needed, They Have Already Failed
• America in Trouble
• Going beyond the President’s Manufacturing Strategy
• Cataloging Weaknesses in the State of the Union Address
• Waiting for the State of the Union Address
• Second Inauguration: Third Growth Model?
• A Progressive Second Term? (II) Possibilities
• A Progressive Second Term? (I) Prerequisites
• The Fiscal Cliff, the Republicans and the Ghost of Christmas Past
• Obama at Half-Time: The Big Question
• Ensuring that the “Grand Bargain” is genuinely a Bargain.
• Behind the Republican Rhetoric: The Misleading Appeal of Free-Market Capitalism
• The Second Debate: In Pursuit of Women Voters
• Memo to the Presidential Candidates: Cut the Warfare State, Not the Welfare State
• A Progressive Primer on the Issue of America’s Debt Problem – Ten Things You Really Need to Know
• A Tale of Two Conventions
• The Romney Pitch – Melissa Harris-Perry MSNBC
• Finding Private Ryan: Pushing Back the Republican Tide
• Why Promising to Save the Middle Class May Just Not Be Enough!
• The Unfinished Business of the Obama Administration: The Foreclosure Crisis
• The Unfinished Business of the Obama Administration: Bank Reform
• Olympic Lessons for an Imperial America
• The Unfinished Business of the Obama Administration: Poverty & Unemployment
• Taking the Republicans to Task: (5) On Industrial Policy
• Taking the Republicans to Task: (4) On Health Care Reform
• The White House and Your House: Policy Inertia and Organizational Resistance in the On-going Crisis of American Housing
• Taking the Republicans to Task: (3) on Smaller Government, Smaller Deficits
• Taking the Republicans to Task: (2) On the Regulation of Business and Labor
• Taking the Republican Candidates to Task: (1) on Taxes
• Republican Truth and Real Truth: GSEs and the Housing Bubble
• Republican Politics and the Unemployment Conundrum
• Time to Choose, America!
• Calling Progressive Economists into the Public Square
• Banker power trumping Democratic Power: the crisis on two continents
• Poverty Amid Plenty – America’s Continuing Shame
• Trade Policy: Countering the Walmart Effect
• David Coates on the Kathleen Dunn Show
• Helping Obama Rediscover His Groove
• Making the Progressive Case
• David Coates on the WFMY Good Morning Show
• Doing Two Things at Once: Jobs and Housing as Routes Out of Recession?
• Defending Trade Unions As Labor Day Approaches
• Immigration Policy: August 2011 Update
• Eight Things to Tell a Republican
• Washington Woes and the Problem of the Parrot
• The Dangers of Obama’s Centrism
• Celebrating Independence by Seeking to Regain It
• Not Working in America: People and Public Policy
• Free Trade/Fair Trade: An update for Chapter 3
• Green Politics in the Wake of the November Mid-Term: Updating Chapter 4
• The War on Terror: An Update
• Punishment or Pushback: Financial Regulation in the Midst of Recession
• Laying-Off Teachers To Demonstrate How Much They Are Appreciated
• The Strengths and Weaknesses of American Exceptionalism
• The Danger of Losing the Plot So Early in the Play
• Reframing the Deficit Debate
• Turning Down the Radio, Slice by Budgetary Slice
• Diluting the Tea Party: The Importance of Supping With a Long Spoon
• Obama and Housing – Is Anybody Home?
• Appendix 2: The Economics in Play
• Appendix 1: The Causes of the Meltdown: An Update on the Debate
• Conclusion
• Making the Case for a Reform of the American Model
• Making the Case for a Green Economy
• Making the Case for Managed Trade
• Making the Case for Regulated Markets
• The Financial Meltdown and the Obama Response
• Fact and Fiction in the “State of the Union” Debate
• Defending Health Care Reform – Again!
• Introduction to the Book
• Sanity in a Time of Madness
• America’s Bleak Mid-Winter
• President Obama and This Generation’s “Sputnik Moment”
• Eating the Old at Thanksgiving
• Fiddling While Rome Burns
• The Morning after the Day Before
• Countering the Enthusiasm Gap
• Contemporary Poverty and the Tasks of the Left
• “Turning the Page” in Iraq and Afghanistan
• The Hijacking of the Almighty
• Immigration and the Problem of the Two-Legged Stool
• The Looming Battle over Social Security
• The Poverty That Blights Us All
• The Foreclosure Crisis That Will Not Go Away
• The Twenty Reports of Elizabeth Warren
• The Inmates and the Asylum: The Madness of Cutting Deficits in the Depth of a Recession
• Moderate Republicans, Going South
• Building Walls or Designing Colanders? Legislative Change in the Wake of the Financial Tsunami
• Demonizing the Victims: Conservative Immigration Policy in a Time of Recession
• Crossing Arizona: Stalemate in the desert
• The Recession May Be Over, but Unemployment is Not
• The Shadows of a Greek Tragedy
• Tea-Party Time in America
• U.S. Senate finally passes Financial Reform
• Pressing the Panic Button: Conservative Paranoia on the Question of Socialism
• The Big Obama Lesson Now Unfolding in London
• On the Regulation of Wall Street
• The Foreclosure Crisis
• Chapter 9: May 2010 Update
• Chapter 8: May 2010 Update
• Chapter 7: May 2010 Update
• Chapter 6: After the Vote
• Chapter 5: May 2010 Update
• Chapter 4: May 2010 Update
• Chapter 3: May 2010 Update
• Stumbling Over a Mess of Your Own Making – Arizona and Immigration Reform
• Chapter 2: April 2010 Update
• Health Care Lessons from the Old South
• Chapter 1: April 2010 update
• The Invisible Immigration Rally
• Health Care for the Ages: Initial Reaction to the Passage of Health Care Reform
• Another Debt to Jon Stewart
• Before the Vote: Commentary on the health care debate before March 21 2010
• Winning reform one hard-fought trench at a time
• Immigration: Recent Developments in 2010
• Chapter 8: Recent Developments in 2010
• Immigration Reform in a Time of Recession
• Delusions at CPAC
• Chapter 6: The Story in 2009
• The “health” side of the health care debate
• Chapter 3 – Recent Developments in 2010
• Will Obama disappoint? Probably. Should that surprise us? Probably Not
• Framing Errors in the State of the Union Address
• The Housing Policy in 2009
• Chapter 9: Reviewing 2009
• Chapter 8: A review of 2009
• We Need a Fighting State of the Union Address
• Immigration: The Story in 2009
• Chapter 1: January 2010 Update
• Chapter 3: The Story in 2009
• The Foreclosure Crisis
• Chapter 2: Looking back at 2009
• Chapter 3: The Story in 2009
• Regulating the Banks?
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Introduction to Chapter 4
• Chapter 5: Introduction
• Chapter 6: Introduction
• Chapter 3: Introduction