Marc Cooper

Time to get out that old warped Phil Ochs record from the early ’70s. “I declare the war is over,” the late, great protest singer warbled. “It‘s o-o-o-ver. It’s ov-v-ver.” Phil was off a bit. It took another year or so for the Vietnamese to open up their last cans......

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil -- After spending last week here with 50,000 others at the World Social Forum -- what the press has dubbed the ”anti-globalization summit“ -- it would be easy to make fun of the guy who was wearing a red-and-blue Che Guevara cape. Or the clumps of balding,......

Here’s my early endorsement for this November‘s California gubernatorial election: anybody but Gray Davis. Literally, anybody. If there’s no other choice, I‘d even grow a beard, buy the wife a burka and write in the name of John Walker Lindh. California ranks as the sixth largest economy in the world;......

If Otto Reich didn’t exist, the guys at Central Casting would invent him. Unless, of course, direct-mail fund-raising strategists at the Democratic National Committee beat them to it. Otto Reich is what you‘d call a Worst-Case-Scenario Republican, a veritable right-wing bogeyman. Lay out his bio in a mass-mail appeal, and......

As I watched bin Laden yukking it up with those other cherubic imams on that grainy Pentagon video, I thought I was having an acid flashback. I hadn’t heard so much giddy rapping about dreams, visions and hallucinations of wild running horses and flaming, falling buildings since a certain acid-laced......

Photo by Ted Soqui IT'S 1:45 A.M. ON OCTOBER 23, SIX WEEKS AFTER THE WORLD TRADE Center disaster, and there's little public appetite to applaud the dynamiting of another building. But here along the nuclear-bright Las Vegas Strip, a crowd of hundreds, about a half-dozen deep, quietly, almost somberly, waits......

The Wall Street Journal came. So did the Washington Post and wire-service reporters. A dozen TV cameras filled the back of the room. The ordinarily overlooked Keck Auditorium at Occidental College brimmed to capacity. As the U.S. attack on Afghanistan slid into its third week, a panel of experts prepared......

Sad Sack by Sgt. George Baker The war against Osama bin Laden has finally begun, and homebound Americans have been issued their marching orders: Patriotically swarm the malls and charge, charge, charge, sparing no expense in the twilight struggle for positive corporate-earnings reports. I have a different suggestion. Instead of......

It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated. --President George W. Bush, speaking to the nation, September 20, 2001 I have one simple question for President Bush. Is he planning to win this New War on global terrorism sometime before --......

“Pow! Bang! Boom! Zap!” So might read the complete and official transcript of the congressional floor debate staged over the resolution authorizing George W. Bush to retaliate with “all necessary and appropriate force” against last week‘s terror attacks. In case anyone got lost in the complicated syntax, Democratic Senator Evan......