Stories by Marie Cocco
Marie Cocco is a prize-winning syndicated columnist on political and cultural topics for The Washington Post Writers Group. She is a frequent commentator on national TV and radio shows.
In her final column, Cocco writes that we face "hard political tasks. But being pushed further down is harder, still. Because no one knows where the new bottom lies."
Posted on Oct 14, 2009, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
I'm counting on Moore to find some humor in all this. Otherwise what we have here is a tragedy that's worth a good cry.
Posted on Sep 30, 2009, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
The Baucus proposal includes a tax intended to dupe the public into thinking it soaks the rich. In truth, it would stick it to millions in the middle class.
Posted on Sep 22, 2009, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
Obama's decision impose higher tariffs on Chinese tires is a measure to protect fair trade and the living standards of American workers.
Posted on Sep 17, 2009, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
It's tempting to think of Dick Cheney as a cranky old men stirring up controversy to sell books. But Cheney must not be underestimated.
Posted on Sep 4, 2009, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
The president's hands-off approach to reform has backfired, as overhaul of the health care system falls prey to wrangling in Congress.
Posted on Aug 19, 2009, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
Staples is selling school supplies for a quarter. That doesn't seem like a good sign.
Posted on Jul 31, 2009, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
Why have we zoomed in on the "health reform timeline" narrative?
Posted on Jul 23, 2009, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
The greatest sorrow in marking Cronkite's death is recognizing that the media has replaced his wisdom with pontification.
Posted on Jul 21, 2009, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
The scary part is how little we know about the Bush Administration's clandestine plans.
Posted on Jul 17, 2009, Source: Washington Monthly
Sotomayor will be confirmed. But the drama stirred up by Republicans reveals some interesting things about race in the age of Obama.
Posted on Jul 14, 2009, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
Workers laid off early in the downturn are soon to be left without the basic sustenance of an unemployment check.
Posted on Jul 10, 2009, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
Teens are having more condomless sex than they did in the 1990s. It's time for science-based sex ed, not moralizing.
Posted on Jul 2, 2009, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
Lobbyists sense that their chances of protecting big insurers, drug companies, medical specialties, technology companies are improving.
Posted on Jun 18, 2009, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
With 39 states now electing judges, the threat to impartial justice is frightening.
Posted on Jun 12, 2009, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
The murder of Dr. George Tiller cannot be smoothed over with a speech.
Posted on Jun 5, 2009, Source: Truthdig
Our national parks are among the safest places in America. So against what, exactly, are the proponents of the new gun law defending themselves?
Posted on May 26, 2009, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
The United States government must at last hold accountable the architects of the torture calamity
Posted on May 19, 2009, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
Confronting our own misdeeds is a measure of our character. And yes, the whole world is watching
Posted on Apr 30, 2009, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
So far we have "reformed" the health insurance system by reinforcing precisely what's wrong with it.
Posted on Apr 24, 2009, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
Afghan President Hamid Karzai just signed a law consigning the women of Afghanistan to lives of terrible repression.
Posted on Apr 2, 2009, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
Political operatives and ideological helpmates of George W. Bush broke the law to keep birth control away from women -- particularly teenagers.
Posted on Mar 27, 2009, Source: Truthdig
One reason Obama won is that the public had more than its fill of a disconnected president. Let's see him get his hands dirty and take care of this.
Posted on Feb 14, 2009, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
Obama owes us some hands-on involvement, even if that means his hands get dirty with an unpopular program for the nation's most despised industry.
Posted on Feb 13, 2009, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
The Supreme Court's only woman justice is battling pancreatic cancer.
Posted on Feb 11, 2009, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
Few traditions are as annoying as the worship of bipartisanship, for it ignores the fact that sometimes one party gets things disastrously wrong.
Posted on Jan 23, 2009, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
Who can seriously argue that a family still earning an income of up to $200,000 is enduring such economic hardship that it, too, needs a tax cut?
Posted on Jan 8, 2009, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
America doesn't have enough women business executives for them to be visible, let alone destroy the economy.
Posted on Dec 30, 2008, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
I still underestimate the peculiar genius conservative Republicans show in exploiting dire, even tragic, situations to wield a partisan cudgel.
Posted on Dec 17, 2008, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
Look only to the Detroit automakers' current economic straits to understand why.
Posted on Dec 4, 2008, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
Unemployment is soaring and it may be March before we feel the first dollar of an Obama recovery plan.
Posted on Nov 27, 2008, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
It's hard to believe that as recently as 2000, people could smoke on planes.
Posted on Nov 25, 2008, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
Unlike Ah-nold, no woman will ever burst into high political office without a lick of experience. And women with credentials don't fare much better.
Posted on Nov 21, 2008, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
Wal-Mart is the only store where hard-squeezed consumers can afford anything, and so it keeps posting big profits amid the retail bloodbath.
Posted on Nov 19, 2008, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
It's time to restore some common sense to the presidential campaign finance system -- before we don't have any system at all.
Posted on Oct 22, 2008, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
401(k)s are the contemporary version of the get-rich-quick scheme. They place retirement in the shaky hands of the market.
Posted on Oct 14, 2008, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
Palin is a cultural oddity that many Americans value little except as an object -- one that absorbs every projection of the national imagination.
Posted on Oct 2, 2008, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
Though Obama's health plan is far better than McCain's, it still only tinkers around the edges. What we need is a system overhaul.
Posted on Aug 28, 2008, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
It is usually the job of the party nominee to build unity once a vanquished rival has conceded. Unless the loser happens to be a woman.
Posted on Aug 26, 2008, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
Money is on the mind of voters as they see their paychecks shrink from inflation, their jobs threatened and their middle-class dreams diminished.
Posted on Aug 26, 2008, Source: Washington Post Writers Group
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