Dr Richard Johnson
writer; senior lecturer in US politics, Queen Mary, University of London; co-author, Keeping the Red Flag Flying: The Labour Party in Opposition since 1922 (forthcoming)

Dr Richard Johnson is senior lecturer in politics at Queen Mary, University of London. His two main areas of research are US electoral politics and UK Labour history.

He is the author of numerous academic articles and two books on US politics: The End of the Second Reconstruction: Obama, Trump, and the crisis of civil rights (2020) and US Foreign Policy: domestic roots and international impact (2021).

He is, with Yuan Yi Zhu, co-editor of Sceptical Perspectives on the Changing Constitution of the United Kingdom (2023). With Mark Garnett and Gavin Hyman, he is also co-author of Keeping the Red Flag Flying: The Labour Party in Opposition since 1922, published with Polity Press in 2024.

He has written widely on US and UK politics for the media, with articles published in Tribune, the Guardian, the Telegraph, Jacobin, The Critic and UnHerd.

Follow Richard on X/Twitter: @richardmarcj

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