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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2003 Stories by Marc Cooper

• Hard Lines and Second Thoughts

  published December 18, 2003

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• A Little Justice

  published December 18, 2003

  A curious piece of writing and reasoning published by the lefty AlterNet.org flashed across my screen less than 24 hours after Saddam... More >>

• The Killing Years

  published December 11, 2003

  It was a moment that fueled a war and helped touch off a decade-long bloodbath in Central America. The conflagration that followed cost tens... More >>

• On the Border of Hypocrisy

  published December 4, 2003

  Photo by J. Emilio Flores From nearly any hilltop in Tijuana you can peer down toward “la linea,” the U.S.-Mexican border, and easily see t... More >>

• A Righteous Collision

  published November 27, 2003

  Governor Arnold should have no problem peeling off the few handfuls of legislative Democrats he needs to fulfill his promise to rather... More >>

• Uncensored Gore

  published November 20, 2003

  Photo by Debra DiPaolo It's lucky for George W. Bush that he wasn’t born in an earlier time and somehow stumbled into America... More >>

• Iraq Spins Out of Control

  published November 13, 2003

  It’s the Islamic world that celebrates the just-initiated holy month of Ramadan — but it’s George W. Bush who better start praying. Maybe... More >>

• No Time for a Sucker

  published October 30, 2003

  I thought it only fair to spend Columbus Day weekend with some of Southern California’s Native Americans, giving them back at leas... More >>

• Jonestown for Democrats

  published October 16, 2003

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• Davis Deathwatch

  published October 9, 2003

  This is the end, my beautiful friend, this is the end. The moment has come for Governor Gray Davis to ride that snake — seven miles long, ol... More >>

• Back at the Carnival

  published October 2, 2003

  SACRAMENTO — Democrats owe Arianna Huffington a handsome debt for her performance at the Great Gubernatorial Debate. If she hadn’t been he... More >>

• Punching-Out Gray

  published October 2, 2003

  By punch cards Gray Davis was re-elected last fall. And by the same system it now seems, he will finally be punched out of office, as... More >>

• Courts, Coups and Clinton Too: Priceless

  published September 25, 2003

  Casino cash funneled to Cruz: $3 million. Labor cash pledged to the governor’s anti-recall movement: $10 million. Former Groper-in-Chief Bil... More >>

• You, Sir, Are No Gene McCarthy

  published September 18, 2003

  It’s what professional political consultants call “the pivot” — the usually scripted moment when their candidate-client pause... More >>

• Storm of the Century

  published September 4, 2003

  The state labor meeting in Manhattan Beach concluded Tuesday in an intricately staged photo op: Governor Gray Davis flanked by legendary farm... More >>

• Circus Maximus

  published August 28, 2003

  Talk about recall circuses. The Big Tent went up Tuesday night at UCLA and Governor Gray Davis rolled out his anti-recall campaign by... More >>

• It’s Democracy, Stupid

  published August 21, 2003

  It’s time to tune out the bleating elites and vacant talking heads whose doomsday warnings about these exciting times raise questions abou... More >>

• It’s the Governor, Dahling

  published August 7, 2003

  Better you don’t try out the lesser-of-two-evils argument on Van Jones. At least when it comes to the Gray Davis recall election. “We ca... More >>

• Time for Damage Control

  published July 24, 2003

  Maybe the White House should start footnoting George W. Bush’s speeches so we know whom to turn to anytime we hear a lie fall from his lips... More >>

• Bring it On — The Recall, That Is

  published July 17, 2003

  Bill Simon Jr. really is a sorry excuse for a politician. I was reminded of this while sitting in as guest panelist last week on Bill... More >>

• Cindy the Sex Sheriff

  published June 26, 2003

  Westside City Councilwoman Cindy Miscikowski doesn’t look much like Dana Carvey. Or does she? Y’better move over, Church Lady, becau... More >>

• The Right Times

  published June 12, 2003

  Last week the L.A. Times’ Pooh-Bah in Chief, John Carroll, sent his section editors a sharply worded memo announcing his campaign t... More >>

• Matrix Politics

  published May 29, 2003

  George W. Bush was right when he scoffed that the $350 billion tax cut passed last week by the Senate was “itsy-bitsy.” Or even “itty-bi... More >>

• Beat Bush

  published May 15, 2003

  An American friend of mine visiting from South America walked away from one of last month’s parties around the L.A. Times Books Festiva... More >>

• Hart to Heart

  published April 24, 2003

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