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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2002 Stories by Marc Cooper

• Our Peace Movement — Not Theirs

  published December 19, 2002

  Photo by Virginia Lee Hunter FUNDAMENTALISTS ALL AROUND US. Certainly to our right. And also to our left. For fundamentalist is the most... More >>

• Give It Up, Al

  published December 5, 2002

  Are those the tones of “I Got You, Babe” I hear quietly but monotonously looping in the background? Is it 6 a.m. on November 7, 2000, all ov... More >>

• Bill, We Hardly Know You

  published November 21, 2002

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• Finding the Exit

  published November 14, 2002

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• No Way With Gray

  published November 7, 2002

  First, this disclosure: The odds of my ever complying with the Weekly‘s tortuously acrobatic endorsement of Gray Davis and actually voting fo... More >>

• The Latin Implosion

  published October 17, 2002

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• Case of Spinelessness

  published October 17, 2002

  As I watched George W. Bush deliver his Big Speech on Iraq earlier this week, I half-expected to see the freckled, grinning visage of Dick... More >>

• A Year Later

  published September 19, 2002

  This first anniversary of 911 marks not only a horrific tragedy, but also a year of tragically missed opportunities -- for both the right and... More >>

• Davis to the Uninsured: Let Them Eat Dodger Dogs

  published September 5, 2002

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• Move Over, Mike Dukakis

  published August 22, 2002

  During my last visit to Baghdad, on the eve of last decade’s Gulf War, I sat for three long hours in the middle of the night arguing with on... More >>

• A More Honest Gamble

  published August 8, 2002

  LAS VEGAS -- As the stock market was swooning last week, there I was, wide-awake at 3 a.m., pondering my next move. I don’t play high tech o... More >>

• The September 11 That Never Was

  published July 25, 2002

  GIJON, Spain -- It started as soon as I got in the airport taxi on the way to this Spanish coastal city‘s annual Semana Negra writer... More >>

• The Last Defender of the American Republic?

  published July 11, 2002

  HE MIGHT BE AMERICA'S LAST small-r republican. Gore Vidal, now 76, has made a lifetime out of critiquing America's imperial impulses... More >>

• Say It. Ain't So, Miguel.

  published July 11, 2002

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• The Gray Rat

  published July 4, 2002

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• White Man’s Burden

  published June 20, 2002

  When it comes to great moments in our civic life, the imminent decision over who will be the LAPD‘s new chief is much more important tha... More >>

• The Devil and Mr. Hicks

  published May 30, 2002

  ”I‘m pissed at him,“ says a former Hicks ally from the Multi-Cultural Collaborative. ”Guess he just wanted to be in the winner’s circle. H... More >>

• Blinded by the Fight

  published May 16, 2002

  “This is a terrible book,” reads the first line of David Brock‘s newest book. He’s right. And it‘s all downhill for the next 287 pages... More >>

• Their 9/11 and Ours

  published May 16, 2002

  SANTIAGO, CHILE -- I AM FINALLY DOING MY part in the war against international terrorism. I spent the morning touring the site of this... More >>

• Reflections at Twilight

  published May 2, 2002

  WATCHING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of dollars roll in during a Westside fund-raiser for a completely worthy liberal cause last... More >>

• Beyond Disappointment

  published April 25, 2002

  In the Age of Geraldo, it seems almost an anomaly that a rumpled, 56-year-old professorial British-newspaper foreign correspondent could draw a... More >>

• Ward Connerly’s Race

  published April 18, 2002

  Photo by Ted Soqui YOU REMEMBER WARD CONNERLY. He touched off a political earthquake in 1996 when California voters -- by a nearly 10-point... More >>

• Mission Creep

  published April 4, 2002

  In the Brentwood patio of Dutton‘s Books last weekend, under appropriately foreboding gray skies, I gathered with friends and admirers o... More >>

• Wake Me Up in Four Years

  published March 14, 2002

  I knew it was all over for Dick Riordan two weeks ago as I watched conservative Kansas Senator Sam Brownback get turned into the entree at a... More >>

• Axis of Insanity

  published February 21, 2002

  Time to get out that old warped Phil Ochs record from the early ’70s. “I declare the war is over,” the late, great protest singer warbl... More >>