Brian Tyler Cohen


Brian Tyler Cohen is an American YouTuber, progressive podcast host, author, and political commentator. His political podcast is No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen. On his YouTube channel, he interviews political figures, reports on politics, and live-streams events, including debates and election results. As of February 2026, his channel had more than 5.01 million subscribers and has received more than 4.79 billion views.
On February 25, 2022, Cohen became the first YouTube creator/podcaster to interview U.S. president Joe Biden.

Early life and education

In 2011, Cohen graduated from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, with a BS degree in business and economics and a BA degree in English. He addressed the graduating class of 2011 as its class president.

Career

Cohen acted in a handful of film and television roles from 2012 to 2016. In October 2018, he started posting political content on his YouTube channel, which primarily covers national politics. In June 2020, he started his first podcast, No Lie, during the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Cohen has since created multiple shows on his channel, co-hosting Democracy Watch with voting rights lawyer and Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias and The Legal Breakdown with former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner.
In addition to hosting podcasts and creating YouTube videos, Cohen has been a speaker at Netroots Nation, Collision and Web Summit in Lisbon. He had been an occasional contributor to The Huffington Post prior to launching his show. Cohen has worked for the website Occupy Democrats as a writer and on-camera host. On June 22, 2023, MS NOW announced that Cohen would be joining the network as a political contributor. He made his national television debut as an MSNBC contributor on The ReidOut on July 20, 2023.
Cohen is the co-founder of Chorus Creator Incubator Program, a program launched in the wake of the 2024 presidential election to build a progressive creator's ecosystem.
Cohen is critical of mainstream media, citing the fact that most Americans now rely on new media rather than television news. He has criticized the Democratic Party for what he perceived as an overreliance on mainstream media and argued that podcasts and YouTube shows reach wider audiences.

Book

On August 13, 2024, Cohen's debut book, Shameless: Republicans' Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy, was published by the flagship Harper imprint of HarperCollins. In it, Cohen outlines his evaluation of the current state of the Republican Party and what the Democrats and everyone who wants to protect democracy should do about it. It was met with favorable reviews. Shameless debuted at number one on The New York Times nonfiction best-seller list for the week ending August 17, 2024, and remained on the list for three weeks.

Podcast

Guests who have appeared on No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen include: