Stories by Marc Cooper
Obama adviser Samantha Power exposed the Clinton administration's indifference to genocide -- she got the boot for stating it on the campaign trail.
Posted on Mar 8, 2008
Barack Obama has only one competitor left standing and it's not Hillary Clinton. It's time itself.
Posted on Feb 5, 2008
Edwards is in the midst of a final 38-county push to win next Thursday's Iowa caucuses.
Posted on Dec 29, 2007
For first time since Vietnam, hundreds of active-duty military personnel have organized to oppose a war that they are fighting.
Posted on Dec 18, 2006
The half-million protesters who flooded Los Angeles this weekend are a glaring sign that Washington needs a rational immigration policy -- not more walls and fences.
Posted on Mar 27, 2006
The election of Socialist pediatrician Michelle Bachelet as president is good news for the people of Chile. Especially given the alternatives.
Posted on Jan 20, 2006
The Bush administration has spent $30 million trying to secure the Arizona border with little effect. Scenes from the capital of illegal immigration reveal the daily risks of desperate dreams.
Posted on Mar 29, 2005
First the L.A. Times helped kill off reporter Gary Webb's career. Then, eight years later, after Webb committed suicide, it publishes a scandalous and shameful obituary.
Posted on Dec 18, 2004
Shot over a period of many years, and edited only upon the mysterious death of its subject, 'The Agronomist' follows Haiti's most popular dissident whose life mirrors the nation's tragic history.
Posted on Apr 27, 2004
Karen Kwiatkowski, once a White House insider, exposes her former bosses and their reasons for a war that never should have happened.
Posted on Feb 25, 2004
The take-no-prisoners social critic skewers Bush, Ashcroft and the whole damn lot of us for letting despots rule.
Posted on Dec 30, 2003
Errol Morris' new documentary on Robert McNamara, prime architect of the Vietnam war, is half in, half out of the fog.
Posted on Dec 18, 2003
The California Guv hurts his cause by portraying himself as a victim. You have to be popular before voters are ready to feel sorry for you.
Posted on Aug 22, 2003
Pundits beware: This 'circus' election is likely to generate a bigger turnout than last year's 'official' contest.
Posted on Aug 14, 2003
The Gray Davis recall election presents a unique opportunity for progressives. Will Arianna Huffington emerge as the consensual candidate of the California left?
Posted on Aug 4, 2003
With the 2004 presidential campaign now under way, it seems clear that as whacked out as George W. Bush may be, he's driving his opponents even crazier.
Posted on May 22, 2003
America's 'morality czar' is just one more among a growing army of zombie-like gambling machine addicts in America.
Posted on May 13, 2003
Led by a Boeing machinist-turned-nude dancer, Las Vegas strippers are talking union.
Posted on Apr 8, 2003
About the only measure missing from the Bush economic plan is a proposal to make monthly payments on yachts, vacation homes and Lamborghinis tax-deductible.
Posted on Jan 24, 2003
Some of the biggest unions are coming out against the war on Iraq, raising hopes of labor participation in the peace movement.
Posted on Nov 25, 2002
With the November elections around the corner, Democratic hopefuls are clambering into the tank on Iraq a la Mike Dukakis.
Posted on Sep 3, 2002
Why not let the casinos take over Wall Street? Putting money in the stock market is just a big gamble after all.
Posted on Aug 6, 2002
Gore Vidal's latest bestseller argues passionately that the U.S. should retreat back to its more Jeffersonian roots and stop meddling in other people's business.
Posted on Jul 3, 2002
The Minnesota Green Party is risking political suicide by endorsing a gubernatorial candidate other than Paul Wellstone -- the greenest member of the Senate.
Posted on Jun 3, 2002
Right-wing warrior David Brock's mea culpa epic reveals him to be a snot-nosed brat less interested in politics than self-promotion.
Posted on May 13, 2002
Controversial British journalist Robert Fisk believes that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict might turn into something as apocalyptic as the French-Algerian war.
Posted on Apr 22, 2002
With the Bush White House asking Congress to remove all restrictions on aid to Colombia, the United States is poised on the brink of a decisive slide into endless war.
Posted on Mar 28, 2002
What did anti-globalization activists find when they went to Porto Alegre to attend the World Social Forum -- hope for the future.
Posted on Mar 14, 2002
Some 650 unionized workers died in the Sept. 11 attacks, and the ensuing recession has made hundreds of thousands jobless. On top of that, says the AFL-CIO's leader, Bush is waging a "war on workers."
Posted on Dec 13, 2001
Peter Beinart, the new editor of the New Republic, has been casting the views of the "left" as unpatriotic and politically correct. So much for subtleties of opinion about war and terror.
Posted on Nov 8, 2001
The author of the "antiglobalization movement bible" talks about the state of the protest movement in the wake of Quebec City.
Posted on May 23, 2001
The liberals and lefties bashing Nader for (apparently) costing Gore the election are just wrong, not to mention counterproductive. Nader led the Greens to some important gains -- but capitalizing on those victories will be a major challenge.
Posted on Nov 17, 2000
After two days of hot protest and 1,300 arrests, anti-IMF/World Bank activists can claim a decisive victory. Ten, 15, maybe 20 thousand determined young protesters have forced the officials of the IMF/WB into a never-before-seen political retreat: an avalanche of statements and communiques promising more accountability, more sensitivity and more attention to the needs of the Global South. ItÕs almost certainly a feint, but even so it means progress in tearing down facade that the IMF and World Bank are aiding the Third World.
Posted on Apr 1, 2000
A new generation of activists that came of age in Seattle is now taking their fight to upcoming protests in DC, Boston, LA and other cities all over the country. Their politics are not always clearly defined, but there's a common sense of urgency these young activists share, a belief that the economic and social imbalances of the world are volatile, intolerable and immoral. Veteran journalist Marc Cooper takes a long, hard look at the new activist landscape.
Posted on Apr 1, 2000
