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 Sunday, January 03, 2021 America Was Always Going to Bungle the Vaccine Rollout Vaccines are being shipped out across the country, but most of them have not yet made it into actual Americans. Bloomberg has been tracking vaccination progress across the country —at time of writing, about 12.5 million doses have been sent out, yet just over 3 million shots have actually been... Read more |
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Views Saturday, February 08, 2020 American Democracy Is Dying This past week was a litany of democratic disasters. First, on Monday, the Iowa Democratic Party catastrophically botched its caucus. Second, on Wednesday, President Donald Trump was acquitted in the Senate impeachment trial, after the Republican majority voted to hear no new witness testimony... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, October 16, 2019 Pete Buttigieg's Disingenuous Attack on Medicare-For-All In the Democratic presidential debate Tuesday night, once again Medicare-for-all was a major focus of discussion. Once again, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren defended the plan against all comers — most especially Pete Buttigieg , who had a number of slick arguments about how universal Medicare... Read more |
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Views Friday, September 27, 2019 The Impeachment Story Proves It Again: Trump Is No Strategic Genius The last week has seen the Trump administration more rattled than at any previous time in its existence. The developing story that Trump attempted to blackmail Ukraine into digging up dirt on the Biden family by withholding military aid prompted rare initiative from the Democratic Party in the form... Read more |
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Views Saturday, September 21, 2019 The Rise of the Entitled Millennial Politician Millennials are getting old. Our bones are starting to creak, we get more random aches and pains, we get hangovers infuriatingly easily, and going to bed early increasingly sounds like a wonderful Friday night plan. On the other hand, we are also reaching the age of power and influence. And so the... Read more |
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Views Thursday, September 12, 2019 Can Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren Dent Biden's Electability Edge? Thursday evening will feature another Democratic presidential primary debate, and praise be to a merciful God, this time there is only one night and one group of contestants. Finally all three of the major contenders in what is rapidly coalescing into a three-person race—Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders,... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 11, 2019 What It Will Take to Actually Fight Climate Change Ponder the onrushing disaster of climate change, and the towering task of getting greenhouse gas emissions down in time to avoid existential calamity, and one can be led very easily to an enervating political despair. The battle is basically lost, or so says the famed novelist Jonathan Franzen in a... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 04, 2019 This Is Joe Biden's Emails Problem Joe Biden got in a spot of hot water last week over a heroic war story he has been telling on the campaign trail. An extensive Washington Post investigation found the following : "it appears as though the former vice president has jumbled elements of at least three actual events into one story of... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, August 28, 2019 Donald Trump Is Picking Your Pocket President Trump suggested a flagrant violation of the Constitution Monday, at the Group of Seven conference in France. At an appearance with Germany's Angela Merkel, he said the next conference might be held at his Trump National Doral golf resort near Miami. "We haven't found anything that's even... Read more |
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Views Friday, August 23, 2019 The Terrifying Legacy of David Koch David Koch, one of the two infamous billionaire Koch brothers, died Friday at the age of 79. The Wall Street Journal is quick to point out that, in addition funding a vast conservative political network, Koch gave about $1.3 billion of his nearly-$60 billion fortune to various philanthropies. But... Read more |