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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2007 Stories by Marc Cooper

• Worst Campaign Tricks of 2007

  published December 27, 2007

  OKAY, WE ALL KNOW IT ain’t badminton. But does presidential-campaign politics necessarily have to be an all-out flop into the mud?... More >>

• Big Bill's Dicey Moves

  published December 20, 2007

  Bill Clinton’s back, and it isn’t a pretty picture. In his post-heart-surgery incarnation, now shed of his Burger King baby... More >>

• Green Party, RIP

  published December 13, 2007

  HERE’S SOME NEWS YOU MIGHT USE about Barack Obama. Did you know he was, in reality, a government plant, a sort of Manchurian... More >>

• Gambling Lobby Lapdogs

  published November 29, 2007

  WITH HIS SIGNATURE now on the official ballot arguments in favor of four measures that would grant the largest Indian gambling expansion... More >>

• Theater of the Absurd in New Orleans and on the Campaign Trail

  published November 15, 2007

  NEW ORLEANS — Samuel Beckett’s frustratingly absurd play, Waiting for Godot, usually plays to small, elite, often... More >>

• Ballot Bull

  published November 8, 2007

  SOMEONE APPARENTLY FAILED TO SEAL the coffin on one of the more ghastly proposed California ballot measures after it was seemingly... More >>

• No Mulligan for Mukasey

  published November 1, 2007

  Driving home from a weekend in the mountains on Sunday, listening to news radio, my wife suddenly asked what the term... More >>

• Burn, Baby, Burn

  published October 25, 2007

  WHERE I LIVE, ON THE EDGE of Topanga Canyon, our cars are dusted with ash and our nostrils tickled with the scent of charred wood.... More >>

• General Hillary

  published October 18, 2007

  It’s one thing that the national calendarof presidential primaries leapfrogs forward with every passing day. It’s quite... More >>

• Rush to Your Phones!

  published October 11, 2007

  TUNE THE RADIO DIAL ANYTIME this week somewhere between KUSC and KCRW, and you’re going to inevitably bump smack into a... More >>

• Welcome Back, OJ! All Is Forgiven

  published September 20, 2007

  IT WAS Wonderful to see O.J. in handcuffs, getting hauled off to the cooler by the rough-and-tumble boys of Vegas Metro. Not so much... More >>

• Petrae-ified

  published September 13, 2007

  General David Petraeus’ long-awaited report back to Congress has confirmed the worst fears of the Bush administration. Six years... More >>

• Night of the Living Dead

  published September 6, 2007

  Buckle up your hazmat suits and adjust your air mask, as we’re going to take a late summer plunge into the bubbling cesspool of... More >>

• Time to Draw Blood

  published August 23, 2007

  I JOINED THE RANKS of, say, something like 299 million other Americans and skipped last weekend’s Democratic presidential debate... More >>

• Straw Men

  published August 16, 2007

  Des Moines, Iowa — When you start reporting on presidential campaigns, you notice occasional pivotal moments, veritable... More >>

• Fabian Núñez's Big Break

  published August 2, 2007

  LOOKS LIKE WHEN CALIFORNIA’S top Democrats, including Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez, rolled over to wealthy tribes and... More >>

• You Boob

  published July 26, 2007

  FIRST, MY DISCLAIMERS. I have a home network of six computers, as well as broadband wireless cards in both of my laptops. My first... More >>

• Fabian's Fatwa

  published July 12, 2007

  I’M NOT ANGRY WITH Steve Maviglio for branding me on a Democratic Party blog as the “worst” political journalist in... More >>

• Bad Bet?

  published July 5, 2007

  WHEN I WROTE IN THESE PAGES a couple of weeks ago that California Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez was on the verge of selling out his lon... More >>

• General Petraeus From Cincinnati

  published June 21, 2007

  WHY ANY LINGERING SUSPENSE about the course of the war in Iraq? For the first half of this year, the congressional Democrats — for... More >>

• Tribal Purge

  published June 14, 2007

  YOU KNOW LOCAL, EASTSIDE STATE Senator Gloria Romero, right? The feisty Democratic majority leader in the California Senate? The... More >>

• What Tony Could Learn From Hillary

  published June 7, 2007

  YOU KNOW THE WORLD is upside down when Silvio and Bobby hit the dirt and Tony goes into hiding, but Hillary skates away without a... More >>

• Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.

  published May 24, 2007

  THE COMPROMISE immigration proposal served up this past week reminded me of that half-cooked grotesque and agonizing creature that... More >>

• Governator 2: Rise of the Girly Man

  published May 17, 2007

  Uh-oh. What’s happened to that loopy green giant of a governor who recently endeared himself by blazing down the center of th... More >>

• East Versus West

  published May 3, 2007

  During this past weekend’s L.A. Times Festival of Books, I found myself sharing some goo... More >>