Marc Cooper

No, the war in Iraq, at least at ground level, is not another Vietnam. But watching George W. Bush’s third-ever prime-time news conference felt like revisiting the golden days of American upheaval when a blustering LBJ or a sweating, squinting Dick Nixon would dissemble, distort and distract while struggling to......

By Tuesday morning, the Bushies found themselves with no choice except to reluctantly clamber out of the political spider hole in which they had so furiously entrenched themselves. Tattered, torn and hemorrhaging, they have surrendered Condi Rice — under oath — to a coming public session of the 9/11 Commission......

I’m glad I’m not responsible for paying off Richard Clarke’s life-insurance policy. Having served the last three presidents — including Daddy and Baby Bush — as a senior national-security adviser, the latter as counterterrorism chief, and having worked as a rock-ribbed Republican for Reagan’s State Department as well, he’s the......

Photos by Anne Fishbein Las Vegas—It’s coming up on 3 in the morning in the dark heart of the Mandalay Bay Casino, and every blackjack hand landing in front of me is stiff as a board. Every hit I take pulls out a hand-busting high card; meanwhile, Ziggy, the chatty......

Illustration by Erik Sandberg I know very well the role that Michael Moore ought to be playing. For it was neither Marx nor Marcuse that initially radicalized me as a teenager in the 1960s but rather the comic, Mort Sahl. Emerging out of the Bay Area beatnik stew, the sweater-clad......

When I winced at one of John Kerry’s convoluted answers during last week’s debate at USC, a colleague said to me, “I know why you don’t like Kerry. You don’t think he’s liberal enough.” No, it’s more a feeling that the Democrats — now that they have overwhelmingly chosen their......

It’s rather astounding to observe with what ferocity and volume so many self-proclaimed progressives, liberals and professional Democrats have joined the chorus of condemnation of Ralph Nader. The horrified reaction to Nader’s announcement that he’s running for president as an independent is more fit for something like Schwarzenegger decreeing the......

Photo by Jack Gould After two decades in the U.S. Air Force, Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski, now 43, knew her career as a regional analyst was coming to an end when — in the months leading up to the war in Iraq — she felt she was being “propagandized” by......

Photo by Marc Cooper PHOENIX — Two days before John Kerry’s impressive double-digit victory in Tuesday’s primary, Antonio Villaraigosa, a national co-chair of the campaign, wrapped his arms around a trumpet-toting mariachi in this city’s legendary Pancho’s restaurant and gleefully belted out the lyrics to the old cantina standard “El......

One thing we know for sure coming out of John Kerry’s double-digit trouncing of Howard Dean in this week’s New Hampshire vote is that the left is taking a mighty beating. And much of it is, unfortunately, self-inflicted. A historical lesson should have been learned from our adversaries in the......