Jonathan Cohn
Jonathan Cohn is an American author and journalist who writes mainly on United States public policy and political issues. Formerly the executive editor of The American Prospect, Cohn is currently a senior editor at The New Republic magazine and a senior fellow at Demos.[1]
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[edit] Works
Cohn's writings have especially focused on social welfare and health care.[2] He has been recognized in the pages of the Washington Post as "one of the nation's leading experts on health care policy"[3] and in The New York Times as "one of the best health care writers out there".[4]
From early 2009 through the spring of 2010, Cohn edited and was the primary writer for The Treatment, a blog about health care for The New Republic. In May, 2010, he started a new blog for "The New Republic" called Citizen Cohn. It focuses on domestic policy and politics.
Cohn is the author of a book, Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis - and the People Who Pay the Price (2007). Sick won the Harry Chapin Media Award in Books, which is given out by World Hunger Year[5] to recognize writing about poverty and hunger. It was also a finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize and the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Award.[6]
In Sick, Cohn advocates for universal health insurance, financed by the government.[7] It presents case studies that demonstrate how America's current system causes even many middle class Americans serious financial or medical hardship. It lays out a history of health insurance in America and points to the record of systems abroad, particularly in France, as proof that universal coverage works.[7]
Cohn has also written extensively about the labor movement and the automobile industry. In 2009, Cohn won a "Special Mention" from the Sidney Hillman Foundation [8] for "Auto Destruct," an article about the history of the United Auto Workers and future of the working class.
Before joining The New Republic in 1997[2], Cohn served as executive editor at The American Prospect.[1] Cohn has also written for the Boston Globe, Mother Jones, The New York Times, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Slate and the Washington Post.[1] From 2002 to 2004, he was a media fellow at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.[2] He has appeared on many television and radio shows, including MSNBC's "Countdown," NPR's "Fresh Air," and "The Colbert Report."
[edit] Personal life
Cohn was raised in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where he attended Pine Crest School. He went on to study at Harvard University where he became President of The Harvard Crimson.[2] He lived for many years in the Boston area before moving to his present home, Ann Arbor, Michigan with his wife Amy Cohn. She is a professor and researcher in Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan.[1]
Cohn was a member of Journolist.
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c d "About Jonathan Cohn". Sickthebook.com. http://www.sickthebook.com/bio.cfm. Retrieved 2009-01-17.
- ^ a b c d "Senior Editor:Jonathan Cohn". The New Republic. http://www.tnr.com/columnists/Jonathan_Cohn.html. Retrieved 2009-01-18.
- ^ Michael Tomasky (2007-05-20). "What Ails Us". Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/17/AR2007051701956.html. Retrieved 2009-01-17.
- ^ David Leonhardt (2007-12=19). "Economics: The Year in Books 2007". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/19/business/19leonside.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink. Retrieved 2009-01-17.
- ^ "Harry Chapin Media Awards". World Hunger Year. http://www.worldhungeryear.org/media_center/hcma.asp. Retrieved 2009-01-18.
- ^ ""SICK", By Jonathan Cohn, Now Available in Paperback". Demos: A Network of for Ideas and Action. 2008-05-22. http://archive.demos.org/page632.cfm. Retrieved 2009-01-18.
- ^ a b Yuval Levin (July/August 2007). "Diagnosis and Cure". Commentary Magazine. http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/sick-by-jonathan-cohn-10911. Retrieved 2009-01-17.
- ^ "2009 Sidney Hillman Prizes". 2009 Sidney Hillman Prizes. http://www.hillmanfoundation.org/2009-hillman-prize-magazine-journalism. Retrieved 2009-07-03.
