Marc Cooper

Count me among those who fully support this past week’s break in Big Labor. It’s encouraging to see America’s biggest union, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and its brawniest union, the Teamsters, split from the AFL-CIO. The powerful hotel workers, food workers and laborers unions are on the verge......

George W. Bush may, indeed, be a lousy president but he’s turning out to be one helluva poker player. When Dubya retires he might consider partnering up with fellow Texan and legendary card player Doyle Brunson who was last seen trying to buy up the World Series of Poker tour......

Until this week Karl Rove has had both a political and legal defense strategy. The former has now definitively crashed. Only the legal details remain an open question, and they are being zealously probed by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. We now know for sure what we have long suspected. Two......

Through the smoke of the Independence Day barbecues and amid the hubbub of Sandra Day O’Connor’s resignation, the use of the G-word by George W. Bush last week went all but unnoticed. Speaking to a group of Africa-policy experts, Bush for the first time described the mass killing in the......

As I watched the governor give the commencement address at Santa Monica College, I started to wonder if Arnold, and his political handlers, have completely lost touch with reality. I emphasize the word “watched” instead of listened because the jeering and hissing and booing and chanting were so overwhelming that......

Forget trying to decode the Dow Jones or decipher the pronouncements of Pope Greenspan. Understanding the core state of our economy can be grasped by reading around its edges. Last week’s Hot Property column in the L.A. Times tells all we need to know. At a time when housing affordability......

The political rise and the ensuing precipitous free fall of Arnold Schwarzenegger certainly demand a definitive written account explaining how a semiarticulate Austrian bodybuilder reinvented himself into governor of America’s most populous state. Unfortunately, Gary Indiana’s Schwarzenegger Syndrome doesn’t fit the bill. There are plenty of hints scattered through the......

I confess to a certain disappointment that the Senate didn’t get all the way to DEFCON 1 this week and let loose that damned nuclear option. Listening to the esteemed colleagues on C-SPAN radio all day Monday, I got so steamed up and anxious for Dear Leader Frist to finally......

Just at a time when coverage of the war is declining, Iraq is on the brink. Any hope generated by the January election and the stumbling attempts to form a credible government are now being washed away in a torrent of blood and gore. Five hundred people, mostly civilians, have......