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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2006 Stories by Marc Cooper

• Run, Rummy, Run!

  published December 14, 2006

  ONLY SUCH A TOWERING PILE of self-absorbed arrogance as Don Rumsfeld could have the gumption to take a couple of high-profile victory... More >>

• The Termlimitnator

  published November 30, 2006

  You think the factional fighting between Iraqi Shiites and Sunnis has gotten ugly? Just wait until January, when Sacramento opens up for... More >>

• Half-Bakered

  published November 23, 2006

  BARELY TWO WEEKS AFTER THEY HANDED the Republicans their much-deserved “thumpin’,” is it somehow unfair or unseemly to... More >>

• The People Revolt

  published November 9, 2006

  REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN Ken Mehlman can kick a barnful of Kenmores into heavy-duty cycle and try to wring out anything... More >>

• Our Indian Government

  published November 2, 2006

  WHILE NEXT WEEK’S NONCONTEST for governor draws about as much public attention as a wall of drying paint, something quite... More >>

• Macho Libre

  published October 26, 2006

  Two years ago, the masked, pipe-smoking leader of the Zapatista army — Subcomandante Marcos — sent a hand-carried proposal from his... More >>

• Democrats for Rent

  published October 26, 2006

  When’s the media going to get around to taking on Alice Huffman, the longtime Democratic Party apparatchik who has turned her... More >>

• Bush's Big Bluff

  published October 19, 2006

  SATURDAY NIGHTS ARE FRANTIC at the world’s biggest card club, the Commerce Casino just east of downtown L.A. But last weekend,... More >>

• Democrats' Hard-on

  published October 12, 2006

  Sorry I’m a bit late with this column. It’s not because I am an alcoholic and have checked into rehab. Or because I am a gay... More >>

• Dead Man Running

  published September 21, 2006

  EXACTLY ONE YEAR AGO, in the run-up to the special-interests special election in which he would be crushed, Arnold Schwarzenegger was ... More >>

• the 9/11 Hypocrite

  published September 14, 2006

  I was mired in taillight hell somewhere on the 101 Tuesday afternoon as I listened to George W. Bush’s speech on the fifth anniversary of... More >>

• Arnold's Bad Hand

  published September 7, 2006

  GOVERNOR ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER came barreling into office three years ago opposing the unlimited expansion of Indian gambling, but now,... More >>

• Dirty Lungs, Dirtier Politics

  published August 31, 2006

  We already know that the AQMD — the so-called smog police — does less than a stellar job cleaning up the air. But how many people kn... More >>

• Dirty Lungs, dirtier Politics

  published August 31, 2006

  WE ALREADY KNOW THAT THE AQMD — the so-called smog police — does less than a stellar job cleaning up the air. But how... More >>

• George's Toll On my Psyche

  published August 24, 2006

  Don’t know about you, but I’m hanging with George W. Bush when he says that the war in Iraq just might be “straining... More >>

• Naked Politics

  published August 10, 2006

  It should come as no surprise that a professional political operative who prefers to keep the election system closed would be just as... More >>

• Strange Bedfellows

  published August 3, 2006

  Last month I wrote about a rumor going around saying that bigtime Democratic Party consultant Gale Kaufman was going to lead the... More >>

• Shit, Meet Fan

  published July 20, 2006

  REMEMBER WHEN THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION was ramping up the invasion of Iraq a few years ago? We were going to remove the dictator, shut... More >>

• The $3 Billion Death Machine

  published July 13, 2006

  WITH DEMOCRATS STILL UNABLE to find a unified or coherent position on the Iraqi debacle, President Bush has staged a political Hail Mary... More >>

• Chief Greedovich

  published July 6, 2006

  “TRUTH BE TOLD,” MUSED A CHASTENED and philosophical Tony Soprano after a near-death experience early in his just-concluded... More >>

• Legally Corrupt

  published June 29, 2006

  Phil Angelides has said he supports public financing of elections. Now he, and the rest of the California Democratic Party, have a... More >>

• The Sandbox Wars

  published June 22, 2006

  SO ANTONIO IS STILL OFFICIALLY NEUTRAL in the gubernatorial battle between Arnold and Phil. And Phil still hasn’t endorsed... More >>

• Blogotics As Usual

  published June 15, 2006

  LAS VEGAS — THE THOUSAND or so keyboard punchers who showed up last weekend for the first-ever YearlyKos convention of liberal... More >>

• Rise of the Machines

  published May 25, 2006

  You couldn’t walk 10 yards in any direction during last month’s Democratic State Convention in Sacramento without crashing into... More >>

• Bush the Alien

  published May 18, 2006

  LET’S GET A COUPLE OF THINGS STRAIGHT about the immigration speech President George W. Bush unreeled Monday night from the Oval... More >>