Marc Cooper

The chain that owns this newspaper, Village Voice Media, is merging with New Times Media. The new company will become the largest chain of metro weeklies in the country, with 17 newspapers and $400 million in assets. New Times will take over editorial control of the Weekly when the Department......

From Marc Cooper's blog: First, a disclaimer. I worked for the L.A. Weekly in the early 80’s. I worked for the Village Voice in the early 90’s. I worked for the New Times in the late 90’s. I work currently for the L.A. Weekly. Talk about moons, and Junes and......

Illustration by Mr. FishTo chart the rise and fall of Arnold Schwarzenegger, you need only focus on one set of numbers. He got carried into office by a populist groundswell in a special election, drawing a record turnout and winning more raw votes than Gray Davis garnered in his ill-fated......

An extraordinary, perhaps historic moment occurred on the floor of the House last Friday. And it went mostly unnoticed in the weekend news cycle dominated by the killer quake in Pakistan. After hours of arm-twisting by possible jailbird Tom DeLay, and narrowly avoiding a rare defeat for the GOP, the......

The largest anti-war demonstration since the invasion of Iraq came and went in Washington this past weekend, but the peace movement remains adrift. The post-demonstration debate is all about media coverage. Were there 100,000 marchers or 300,000? Why didn’t the networks show more aerial shots? Why were the small groups......

Now that the New Orleans floodwaters are receding and George W. Bush is making photo-op stops on the Gulf Coast a routine part of his publicity-travel schedule, we’re about to enter the next, predictable phase in the national Katrina narrative. It’s what you might call the Schindler’s List phase. The......

I know George W. Bush doesn’t like to read very much. And now that he has announced that he will be heading up his own administration’s probe into its handling of Catastrophe Katrina, I know his time must be very tight. Still, he might want to take an evening off......

Perhaps it's a hallucinatory effect of just too much heat. But as this summer sizzles to a close, it certainly seems that the conflagration in Iraq is raging out of all control and that current policy — essentially supported by parties — does nothing except stoke the flames.After months of......

With apologies to Don Rumsfeld, let’s say you have to go with the anti-war movement you’ve got — not the one you’d like to have. Camped out on the edge of George W. Bush’s Potemkin Crawford ranch, talking herself hoarse through dozens of interviews a day and speaking with the......

Photos by Slobodan DimitrovARVIN, CALIFORNIA — When I knock on the door of the Orange Street address I’ve been given in this dusty down-at-the-heels agricultural town, I get only a shrug when I ask for Pedro Cruz. Pedro works the same Valpredo bell-pepper farm as did 41-year-old Salud Zamudio-Rodriguez, who......