Marc Cooper

If only the Bush administration had political strategies and policies half as smart as its high-tech weaponry. Who was not transfixed, and at some level or another horrified, by that first seven-minute shock-and-awe barrage that turned the Baghdad night into an orange-hellish glow of mini–mushroom clouds and rivers of flame?......

The national debate we should have had over the last two years before plunging headlong and solo into this war in Iraq was finally held in the compressed form of two hours this past weekend at the Wiltern Theater. Unfortunately, only 1,500 people could partake, instead of 280 million. (You......

FIRST, THE GOOD NEWS. This anti-war movement continues to mount faster than anyone could have predicted. History was made last week, virtually unreported, when, for the first time in American history, the mainstream of organized labor openly broke with a sitting U.S. president's war policy as the AFL-CIO executive council......

SORRY,BUT I'M AMONG THOSE who were totally convinced by Colin Powell’s high-tech dog-and-pony show last week before the U.N. Security Council. Convinced that Saddam Hussein lies and cheats. And equally convinced that the Bush administration lies and cheats. Make no mistake — I intend no moral symmetry here. Hussein wins......

It was politics, not the smell of gas and burnt rubber, that lingered in my head as I grazed at the annual car show last week at the downtown Convention Center. Tens of thousands flocked to the main exhibition halls to kick the tires of the newest Chevys, Caddies and......

Photo by Virginia Lee Hunter FUNDAMENTALISTS ALL AROUND US. Certainly to our right. And also to our left. For fundamentalist is the most polite and diplomatic characterization I can attach to a small choir of leftists who as much as declared jihad on me and a couple of other writers......

Are those the tones of “I Got You, Babe” I hear quietly but monotonously looping in the background? Is it 6 a.m. on November 7, 2000, all over again in America? Is it nonstop wall-to-wall Gore vs. Bush? We may not, indeed, be living in a hellish political Groundhog Day......

CALM DOWN, EVERYONE. CALM DOWN. THE LAPD'S new chief, Bill Bratton, has barely been in office two weeks and already a chorus of Cassandras out there prophesy that instead of promised police reform, Bratton's about to unleash a wave of blind repression. These early critics suggest we are only days,......

Photo by Slobodan DimitrovNo doubt many of the party faithful showed up not to praise but rather to once and for all bury Bill Simon Jr., whose campaign many Republicans across the country saw as the worst of the electoral cycle. Indeed, early on in the evening at the GOP......