Email Author Marc Cooper

Awards

• 2008 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published May 4, 2007

  "East Versus West"

• 2007 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

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2008 Stories by Marc Cooper

• The Weekly's World News: The Paper Looks to Central America and Comes of Age

  published December 4, 2008

  Staff writer, news editor 1983-1984Media columnist 1986-1988News feature editor, staff writer 2001-2008It was in late 1983... More >>

• The After-Bush Afterlife

  published November 13, 2008

  After 25 years of an on-again-off-again association with the L.A. Weekly, and after nearly eight straight years of... More >>

• Yes We Did: What we know and what we don't about our new American era

  published November 6, 2008

  Las Vegas, Nevada — My good friend Micah Sifry framed this historic day perfectly right about noontime: “The hands... More >>

• Election '08 Voting Guide: Endorsements From a Freethinker — No on 8, Yes on 11. And a Nod to Mark Ridley-Thomas

  published October 30, 2008

  With Obama way ahead in California polls, the Golden State might become the epicenter of voter complacency on November 4. But... More >>

• It's Going to Take a Whole Lot More Than a Democratic Majority to Save Us

  published October 30, 2008

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• Colin Powell Delivers the KO Punch to McCain

  published October 23, 2008

  Colin Powell staged a historic gesture Sunday morning by crossing party lines and unreservedly endorsing More >>

• Tuesday's Presidential Debate: A Death Rattle Not Only for the McCain Campaign but for a Political Era

  published October 9, 2008

  I can only imagine what sort of wire-brush scrubbing and firehose wash John McCain must have taken before appearing on the... More >>

• Best Poker Room: Hustler Casino

  published October 2, 2008

  A few months back, I went to play some low-stakes poker over at Larry Flynt’s Hustler Casino, and who did I bump into,... More >>

• Reaganomics Meets the GOP-Bolshevik State

  published September 25, 2008

  FORGET ABOUT THIS FRIDAY’S presidential debate. The real drama of this political season is unfolding on the steps of... More >>

• Lehman Brothers Call McCain's Bluff: More Than Lipstick Needed to Mask the Meltdown

  published September 18, 2008

  Play even a low-stakes game of Texas Hold ’em any night at the Bicycle Club or Commerce Casino and you can be sure that... More >>

• You'll Never Be Vice President: A Letter to My Daughter, the Community Organizer

  published September 11, 2008

  Daughter Dearest,It is with great pain and a certain measure of shame that I write you this note. Having grown up in... More >>

• Storm Over Palin Blows McCain on the Bridge to Nowhere

  published September 4, 2008

  It might have been the waterlogged and vengeful ghost of Katrina, materialized in the form of Gustav, that came wisping into... More >>

• Abiding Joe Biden: Obama's VP Pick Exposes the Dems' Shallow Talent Pool

  published August 28, 2008

  CARDIOLOGISTS ALL ACROSS AMERICA rested easy with the selection of veteran Delaware Senator Joe Biden as Barack Obama’s... More >>

• DNC '08: It's Not My Party

  published August 21, 2008

  I do have a platinum American Express card, but I don’t have a Democratic Convention Premier Package. So I don’t... More >>

• Who's Your Daddy? Why John Edwards' Sex Life Is Our Business Too

  published August 14, 2008

  JOHN EDWARDS’ NATIONALLY TELEVISED confession on ABC’s Nightline this week was absolutely unconvincing... More >>

• Handcuffs for Bushies

  published July 31, 2008

  It’s about indictment, stupid. Not impeachment. It should be images of war criminal Radovan Karadzic being hauled away... More >>

• Stupid McCampaign Tricks

  published July 24, 2008

  IF THERE WERE SOME SORT of referee for the presidential election, would he step in now to stop the fight and call it for... More >>

• Gramm Cracker Crust: John McCain's Surrogate Trouble

  published July 17, 2008

  THERE SURE ARE A LOT OF WHINERS out here in the San Fernando Valley. Driving down Ventura Boulevard early Tuesday morning, I... More >>

• Dissonance: Obama's Middle Ground

  published July 3, 2008

  THERE’S COLD FEAR in the blogosphere. Liberals from Malibu to Madison have broken out into hives. Hands are wringing... More >>

• George Carlin to World: "Blow Me!"

  published June 26, 2008

  I KNEW GEORGE CARLIN. I saw him exactly one week before he checked out. And I can tell you that George Carlin was no Tim... More >>

• A Sinner's View of Tim Russert's Passing

  published June 19, 2008

  TIM RUSSERT HAS BEEN DEAD for more than three days now and has not yet been resurrected, so it must mean that he wasn’t... More >>

• Secure Borders? Try Fenced In

  published June 12, 2008

  Sasabe, Arizona — Under a cloudless desert sky in the bright sunlight of midmorning, we spotted the young Mexican man... More >>

• The Obama Moment: Who Said the Revolution Wouldn't Be Televised?

  published June 5, 2008

  If there was one single moment this past historic Tuesday night that was most fraught with the potential embodied in the... More >>

• A McHillary McShame Mash-up

  published May 22, 2008

  DURING THIS SAME WEEK that Barack Obama clinched the majority of pledged Democratic Party delegates, the presidential mash-up... More >>

• Clinton Defeats Clinton: After North Carolina and Indiana, a Postmortem on Hillary's Campaign

  published May 8, 2008

  EXCEPT FOR THE PAPERWORK, it’s all over now. Barack Obama is now the presumptive presidential nominee of the Democratic... More >>