# Jay Cost **URL:** --- Jay Cost is a staff writer at The Weekly Standard. He is the author of [_Spoiled Rotten: How the Politics of Patronage Corrupted the Once Noble Democratic Party and Now Threatens the American Republic_](http://www.amazon.com/Spoiled-Rotten-Patronage-Corrupted-Democratic/dp/0062041150/) (2012) and [_A Republic No More: Big Government and the Rise of American Political Corruption_](http://www.amazon.com/Republic-More-Government-Political-Corruption/dp/1594037272/) (2015).