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Henry Olsen, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, studies and provides commentary on American politics. His work focuses on how America’s political order is being upended by populist challenges, from the left and the right. He also studies populism’s impact in other democracies in the developed world.
He is the author of The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism and The Four Faces of the Republican Party, co-authored with Dante Scala. Mr. Olsen is also an editor at UnHerd.com, where he writes about populism and politics around the world, and he is a regular contributor to American Greatness, City Journal, and World Magazine.
Mr. Olsen’s work has been featured in many prominent publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, National Review, The Guardian, and The Weekly Standard. His pre-election predictions of the 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2014 elections were particularly praised for their remarkable accuracy. In the 2016 campaign, he accurately identified the factors fueling the rise of Donald Trump early in the race, and his election eve predictions were more accurate than those of virtually any other major analyst or commentator.
Alan Cooperman is the Director of Religion Research at the Pew Research Center, where his work focuses on religious change both in America and globally. Alan has co-authored or edited studies of America’s religious landscape, the experiences and attitudes of Jewish Americans, Muslims in the U.S., faith among Black Americans, the rise of religious “nones,” and other topics. Previously, Alan worked as a national reporter and editor for The Washington Post, a foreign editor at U.S. News & World Report, and a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press.