Ryan Cooper
Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.
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Views Thursday, July 11, 2019 Democrats Are Failing the Country by Letting Trump Off the Hook The political media has been glued to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal of late. Federal officials arrested him in New Jersey Monday, and raided his New York home where they found a veritable cornucopia of incriminating evidence, allegedly including lots of child porn . Then on Wednesday another accuser... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 02, 2019 Joe Biden's Record on Race Is Even Worse Than Kamala Harris Lets On The standout moment in either of the first two Democratic primary debates was unquestionably the showdown between Kamala Harris and Joe Biden over school desegregation. Harris came prepared with her own story being bused to an integrated school as a young girl and attacked Biden over his fond... Read more |
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Views Thursday, June 27, 2019 The First Democratic Debate Was a Circus Debates are usually a focused affair, with two people discussing a particular narrow topic. The famous 1965 debate at Cambridge where James Baldwin wiped the floor with William F. Buckley, for instance, was on the question: "Has the American dream been achieved at the expense of the American negro... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 19, 2019 The Trump Regime Wants Another Pointless War The Trump regime is attempting to gin up a war with Iran. First Trump reneged on Obama's nuclear deal with the country for no reason, then he slapped them with more economic sanctions for no reason, and then, pushed by National Security Adviser John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, he... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 12, 2019 How to Stop Google and Facebook From Strangling Journalism The last two decades have been perhaps the worst in American history for journalism. After years of decline , newsroom employment fell a further 23 percent from 2008-2017—a trend which shows no sign of stopping . There are three big reasons why. First, the rise of the internet, which undermined... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 05, 2019 American Farmers Are Reaping the Climate Denial Whirlwind It's commonly thought on the right (and sometimes on the left) that the United States will not be harmed too much by climate change. With our wealth, geography, and relative isolation from the rest of the world, we will be able to fence out climate refugees and continue to drive gas-guzzling SUVs... Read more |
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Views Thursday, May 30, 2019 Americans Should Be Very Concerned About Bernie Sanders' Record of Opposing Mass Murder Bernie Sanders has a problem. As mayor of Burlington back in the 1980s, he attacked the foreign policy of the Reagan administration in Latin America, and even briefly toured Nicaragua in support of its Sandinista government. He was reportedly present at a rally in Managua where protesters chanted... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, May 21, 2019 Bernie Sanders Is Bringing Back the Most Underrated Education Policy Over the past two decades, education reform has been a major topic of debate and policymaking, from President Bush's No Child Left Behind bill to President Obama's Race to the Top initiative. Reforms have generally followed the pattern of adapting mechanisms from the for-profit business world to "... Read more |
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Views Thursday, May 09, 2019 Why Democrats Should Open an Impeachment Inquiry House Democrats are plainly scared of impeachment. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi told The New York Times last weekend that she worried Democrats would get bogged down in an impeachment proceeding, and the only way to get President Trump out was to nominate a bland moderate in 2020. She slightly... Read more |
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Views Saturday, May 04, 2019 The Media Is Already Bungling Its Trump Re-Election Coverage Hillary Clinton's email scandal was the single most-covered story of the entire campaign in 2016. Trump was key in this process: As the story went on, he would seize on any new development and blast it as part of his Crooked Hillary narrative. The press would then write stories about Trump's... Read more |