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, March 21, 2019 What America Can Learn From the World's Happiest Countries Item: The life expectancy of the United States was recently found to have declined for the third straight year , something typically associated with all-out war, economic crises, or political collapse. According to the CIA , as of 2017 the U.S. ranks 42nd among nations for life expectancy, behind... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 05, 2019 The Big Problem With Climate 'Realism' limate change has vaulted to the top of the political discourse, with the rollout of the Green New Deal policy framework and the subsequent discussion of what policies it should contain. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D), for instance, recently announced he is running for president with a platform... Read more |
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Views Friday, March 01, 2019 Donald Trump Is the Worst Presidential Negotiator in History President Trump's self-image is that of the master negotiator. "Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully or write poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals," he wrote in 2014. But like the image itself, which is more the product of ghostwriters and reality TV producers than it... Read more |
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Views Thursday, February 07, 2019 2020 Moderates Have a Credibility Problem Moderate Democrats, both at the presidential level and below, are facing a quandary. All the activist energy and ideas are on the left, with policies like Medicare-for-all, a Green New Deal, a child allowance, and so on. In the main, most moderates or former moderates — like Cory Booker, Kirsten... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, February 05, 2019 The Real Problem With an Independent Run for President Green Party radicals and dopey coffee magnate Howard Schultz agree: American voters don't have enough choice. If you don't like the options put forth by the Republican or Democratic parties, with rare exceptions you can either cast a largely symbolic protest vote or go pound sand. The result is... Read more |
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Views Thursday, January 31, 2019 This Is How We Get Terrible Health Care ow that the presidential race has started (God help us), candidates have started discussing policies — and because the health care system very obviously needs another round of reform, Medicare-for-all is a hot topic. At a town hall, Kamala Harris was asked whether she would support getting rid of... Read more |
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Views Friday, December 28, 2018 The Comical Incompetence of President Trump President Trump is spending the last few days of 2018 in signature fashion, with a series of unforced errors and comical pratfalls around the world, any one of which would have been a multi-week scandal for any previous president. The government is shut down over total nonsense, and Trump's attempt... Read more |
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Views Thursday, December 20, 2018 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Gets It Over the next decade at most, if the United States is going to do its part in the international effort to combat the existential risk posed by climate change, it must conduct an all-out crash decarbonization program. The biggest obstacle to that objective is the Republican Party. But the second-... Read more |
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Views Friday, December 14, 2018 The Impossibility of Bipartisan Healthcare Compromise If there's one thing political centrists claim to value, it's compromise. It's "the way Washington is supposed to work," writes Third Way's Bill Schneider. "Centrists, or moderates, are really people who are willing to compromise," The Moderate Voice 's Robert Levine tells Vice . What does this... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, December 11, 2018 Democrats' 2020 Battle Royale Is Going to Be Brutal, Dirty, and Totally Worthwhile Jostling for position in the 2020 Democratic primary has started already, God help us. And there is probably no way around a bitter fight between liberals and leftists over who is going to be the nominee. However, it might be possible to head off some of the bitterness that resulted from the 2016... Read more |