Marc Cooper

THE CANDLELIGHT CAST from the thousands who flooded La Placita Monday night illuminated a remarkable new American political reality: a national immigrant civil rights movement of truly tidal proportions. And, most inspiring, one that has mightily overflowed the narrow restraints of both major political parties and that continues to rise......

The Democrats can be blamed for the immigration fiasco of the 1990s. And as we head this week for a full Senate vote on proposed reform measures, this decade’s failures (and those of the next) can be placed at the feet of the Republicans. American bipartisanship at its finest! Bill......

FOR EVERY ACTION, there is an equal and opposite reaction. At least in physics. In politics, however, the equation isn’t always symmetrical. A mild push might invite a whopping Sunday punch. Likewise, an unbridled onslaught might go completely unanswered. So what about this nationwide chain reaction of immigrant demonstrations, school......

FORGET ABOUT GROUNDHOG DAY. As we enter the fourth year of the war in Iraq, this looks like it’s going to be a Groundhog Decade. With alarming regularity this past week, George W. Bush popped up on the tube, casting a long, dark shadow over our future. All of it......

AFTER RECENT CRITICAL PRESS REPORTS alleging massive dysfunction inside the legendary United Farm Workers and its related agencies, the movement’s top woman administrator has resigned, upset over the union’s strategy to lash out at the media and other internal issues, the Weekly has learned. Dissenting from the UFW network’s current......

Starting next week, the Senate will begin its most important debate on immigration and border policy since the 1986 amnesty program granted legal residence to almost 3 million undocumented workers. The debate — which will get under way in the Senate Judiciary Committee and then extend for months on the......

IN 35 YEARS OF WRITING ABOUT POLITICS, I have done what little I could to help bring scrutiny to corrupt government agencies or officials: I’ve outed members of foreign-government death squads; uncovered greedy slumlords; blasted corporations for their workplace practices; exposed wealthy cults for staging massive public hoaxes; and, modestly,......

HURRICANE-STRENGTH GUSTS from the liberal blogosphere these past two weeks have buffeted and rocked anyone who has dared to suggest that the Jack Abramoff scandal is in any manner a bipartisan affair. After the Washington Post’s public editor, Deborah Howell, made just such a suggestion, the Internet liberals — from......