Jonathan Cohn

Adjunct faculty

Jonathan Cohn

Lecturer in Public Policy

Jonathan Cohn is a lecturer in public policy at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and the senior national correspondent for HuffPost. At HuffPost, Cohn writes about politics and policy with a focus on social welfare.…

In the Media

Medicare drug price negotiations an important first step - Cohn

Sep 1, 2023 WNYC

Jonathan Cohn, WNYC: The immediate cause was an enactment of the Inflation Reduction Act, that big law that Biden and the Democrats passed last year. It's probably best known for its climate provisions. This is the law that puts all this money into...

In the Media

Cohn on why Michigan is reaching out to workers in red states

Aug 25, 2023 Michigan Radio

Jonathan Cohn, Michigan Radio: "These ads are not subtle. They are very clearly saying to people that no matter your sexual or gender identity, if you are in a state where that is being questioned or attacked or your rights are being threatened,...

News

Dark matter, Obamacare up for discussion at Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions series

Sep 8, 2021

How did racism and sexism become embedded in our understanding of physics and the cosmos? What does the fight over the Affordable Care Act—better known as Obamacare—reveal about our country's politics? What would it take for the U.S. to adopt a...

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State & Hill

Soundbites, spring 2014

May 9, 2014

Overheard this semester: Policy Talks @ the Ford School "It seems to me that our efforts to narrow racial differences in schooling and other things, if applied too late, are almost doomed to fail." Kerwin Charles, deputy dean and Edwin and...

Horwitz, Levy: Argument against the Affordable Care Act based on shaky premise

Jun 5, 2012

Jonathan Cohn, a senior editor at The New Republic, featured a blog post by Jill R. Horwitz and Helen Levy in his column, "Will Bogus Policy Arguments Swing the Supreme Court?"Cohn challenges the veracity of an amicus brief filed by a conservative...

Conversations Across Differences, Election issues

Two Dads Defending Democracy

Sep 27, 2024, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT

Joan and Sanford Weill Hall Annenberg Auditorium (1120)

Have a question for our panel? Submit your question at: https://myumi.ch/4rPZ4Two high-profile advocates from opposite ends of the political spectrum seek ways to connect and communicate about the most important issues facing the country.

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Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions

Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage

Oct 22, 2021, 12:00-1:00 pm EDT

Jonathan Cohn discusses his book, “The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage,” which examines the Affordable Care Act — better known as “Obamacare.”

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Gilbert S. Omenn and Martha A. Darling Health Policy Fund, Policy Talks @ the Ford School

Obamacare and beyond: How to reform the U.S. Health System

Mar 17, 2014, 2:30-4:00 pm EDT

1120 Weill Hall

Avik Roy and Jonathan Cohn debate over the viability of the Affordable Care Act.

Jonathan Cohn

Jonathan Cohn

Medicare drug price negotiations an important first step - Cohn

Cohn on why Michigan is reaching out to workers in red states

Dark matter, Obamacare up for discussion at Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions series

Soundbites, spring 2014

Horwitz, Levy: Argument against the Affordable Care Act based on shaky premise

Two Dads Defending Democracy

Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage

Obamacare and beyond: How to reform the U.S. Health System

Walsh and Guttenberg: Two Dads Defending Democracy

U.S. health policy directions: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood

The Affordable Care Act: Where do we go from here?

Jonathan Cohn and Avik Roy: How To Reform the U.S. Health System