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Michael A. Cohen

MSNBC Columnist

Michael A. Cohen is a columnist for MSNBC and a senior fellow and co-director of the Afghanistan Assumptions Project at the Center for Strategic Studies at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. He writes the political newsletter Truth and Consequences. He has been a columnist at The Boston Globe, The Guardian and Foreign Policy, and he is the author of three books, the most recent being “Clear and Present Safety: The World Has Never Been Better and Why That Matters to Americans.”

Michael A. Cohen is a columnist for MSNBC and a senior fellow and co-director of the Afghanistan Assumptions Project at the Center for Strategic Studies at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. He writes the political newsletter Truth and Consequences. He has been a columnist at The Boston Globe, The Guardian and Foreign Policy, and he is the author of three books, the most recent being “Clear and Present Safety: The World Has Never Been Better and Why That Matters to Americans.”

Latest from Michael A. Cohen

1d ago

The Trump administration and its allies seem to think we’re all idiots

The White House and their GOP allies are using every trick in the book to avoid accountability over the Signal messaging scandal.
7d ago

The Trump administration keeps losing in court — it could fix that by not breaking the law

If the Trump administration wants to end federal judgments against its policies, it should simply follow the law.
16d ago

Trump isn’t joking about wanting to annex Canada

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Trump wants to see "a total collapse of the Canadian economy." He's probably right about that.
19d ago

Trump’s presidency has already completely upended Canada’s elections

UPDATE (March 9, 2025, 7:00 p.m. ET): On Sunday, former central banker Mark Carney became Canada’s next Liberal Party leader in a landslide victory.
31d ago

DOGE’s mass firings will only make government less efficient

Over 300,000 federal workers have already lost their jobs. This won't help attract the best and brightest Americans to work in government.
39d ago

Trump and the GOP have boxed themselves into a corner

A government shutdown deadline looms, but Democrats don’t have any reason to play nice with House Speaker Mike Johnson and his caucus.
52d ago

Elon Musk calls USAID ‘a criminal organization.’ Here’s the truth.

Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has put the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in its budget-slashing crosshairs.
57d ago

Trump claims budget-slashing is popular. These polls disagree.

Polls show Americans actually want more spending on education, health care, Social Security, infrastructure and anti-poverty efforts.
67d ago

Trump’s first executive orders preview his second administration’s chaos and cruelty

President Trump signed dozens of executive orders on his first day in office, some of which will face legal challenges.
73d ago

Biden’s best foreign policy decision started with telling the truth

Of all his foreign policy decisions, few brought Biden more grief than the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan — and few were more courageous or essential.
75d ago

Stop looking for someone to blame for the Los Angeles wildfires

Southern California's wildfires are terrible, but pointing figures and looking for someone to blame won't help.
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