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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2004 Stories by Marc Cooper

• Labor's Dirty Move

  published December 30, 2004

  No good deed goes unpunished. Just ask City Councilman and mayoral hopeful Antonio Villaraigosa. I saw him the other night at the... More >>

• Gary Webb, RIP

  published December 16, 2004

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• The Times’ Skewed Reporting on King/Drew

  published December 9, 2004

  I can’t remember the last time I so thoroughly enjoyed reading a series of articles in the L.A. Times as thi... More >>

• Weaker Than Ever

  published December 2, 2004

  Never mind that George W. Bush won re-election by 4 million votes. Or that Democrats lost in 28 out of 50 states. Or that more than... More >>

• Speedy Gonzales

  published November 18, 2004

  IT'S NOT JUST SQUISHY LIBERALS and ACLU lawyers anymore who cast a wary eye toward the future of... More >>

• Democrats’ Dementia

  published November 4, 2004

  Whatever slim hope that Democrats might have of extracting something positive from this week’s resounding defeat depends entirel... More >>

• U.S. of Amnesia

  published November 4, 2004

  GORE VIDAL THOUGHT IT WAS a challenging exercise. How do you give an interview about this week’s election five days before it happens... More >>

• The Incidental Candidate

  published October 28, 2004

  in the privacy of the voting booth, it’s likely I will — for the first time since 1972 — vote for the Democratic candidate, J... More >>

• George Untethered

  published October 14, 2004

  The third and final presidential debate will be over by the time this column appears in print, so my apologies if it is overtaken by... More >>

• Trials and Fibulations

  published October 7, 2004

  We can debate whether or not John Edwards beat Dick Cheney in the vice-presidential debate. What is certain, however, is that as a debater... More >>

• Tribal Warfare

  published September 30, 2004

  Illustration by Tra Selhtrow CAPAY VALLEY — Paula Lorenzo, the 54-year-old, tattooed, Harley-riding chairwoman of the tiny Rumse... More >>

• Survivor: The Debate Edition

  published September 30, 2004

  It was once said of George W. Bush that watching him get through a debate is like watching a wobbly waiter weave among tables while desperately... More >>

• Double Double

  published September 9, 2004

  THE IMAGES I HAVE in my head are not pretty. Bill Clinton, prone in a backless hospital gown, his eyes fixed on the muted TV above... More >>

• War Party

  published September 2, 2004

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• Pimps and Wimps

  published August 26, 2004

  George W. Bush’s tepid protestations this week against “that ad, every other ad,” those political attack ads run by supposedly independ... More >>

• Who’ll Stop the Rain?

  published August 12, 2004

  TUCSON, ARIZONA — One moment the desert sun hangs suspended as an oppressive, solitary orange sphere against a china-blu... More >>

• Post-Convention Blues

  published August 5, 2004

  PHOENIX — Here in the triple-digit dog days when at times you can literally fry an egg on the asphalt, a couple of dozen fearles... More >>

• Bushless in Boston

  published July 29, 2004

  Photo by Joeff Davis BOSTON — With the speakers required to submit their podium copy in advance to party managers eager to homogeniz... More >>

• The Boston Braying Party

  published July 22, 2004

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• Shooting the Messenger

  published July 15, 2004

  I’m embarrassed that I’m getting to this three weeks late. But that’s also part of the story. Writing about Francisco Ortiz Fra... More >>

• Dissing the Republic To Save It

  published July 1, 2004

  Illustration by Winston Smith In the darkest days of the Cold War, UC Berkeley professor and sometimes consultant to the CIA Chalmers... More >>

• Indian Givers

  published June 24, 2004

  It was one of those surreal moments that often punctuate a reporter’s life. I was in Palm Springs in a union organizing office last wee... More >>

• Reagan Without Tears

  published June 10, 2004

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• Reagan Without Tears

  published June 3, 2004

  If the right people had been in charge of Nixon’s funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals tha... More >>

• Who’s on First?

  published June 3, 2004

  Stunning is the only way to describe what seems to be the precipitous collapse of the Pentagon’s political power in Iraq. Donald Rumsfel... More >>