Ryan Cooper
Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.
Latest articles by Ryan Cooper
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Is the U.S. economy about to faceplant?
opinion America just got rid of pandemic benefits while the pandemic is still raging
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Climate change is not going to wait for America to get its act together
opinion Joe Manchin is fiddling while New York drowns
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The Supreme Court just effectively overturned Roe vs. Wade with legal Calvinball
opinion And opened the door to armies of private vigilantes
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Joe Biden's political courage
opinion In ending the occupation of Afghanistan, the president demonstrated the value of having a spine
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The case for normalizing relations with the Taliban
opinion Make the best of a bad situation
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American atrocities doomed the Afghanistan occupation
opinion If you want to know why the American occupation failed, look at the recent drone strike
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The bloodlust of Joe Biden's Afghanistan critics
opinion They have no solution but to get more American troops killed
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The Republican pandemic response is breaking my brain
opinion Give me horse paste or give me death?
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America's metastasizing judicial tyranny problem
opinion Just because judges do it does not mean it is legal
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The hidden costs of American imperialism
opinion Man cannot live on a vicarious sense of power alone
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The Democrats who want to destroy the Biden presidency
opinion The "Suicide Squad" is taking the party agenda hostage to get tax cuts for the rich
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American media can't quit the forever war
opinion Respecting the troops means keeping them in Afghanistan forever, it seems
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The right wants to betray the Afghan people 1 more time
opinion Anti-refugee paranoia is little more than racism
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Are Democrats going to Benghazi Biden?
opinion Congress is launching not one but four investigations about the Afghanistan withdrawal
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The FDA's inexcusable foot-dragging on child vaccination
opinion The new school year is fertile ground for the Delta variant to spread
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Biden is right to resist the Afghanistan backlash
opinion Withdrawal was ugly, but it had to be done
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The war in Afghanistan has been lost for 2 decades
opinion The Taliban tried to surrender in December 2001. Donald Rumsfeld said no.
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America just might need another COVID rescue
opinion Another surge of the pandemic means more economic disruption around the world
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The case against anti-vaxxer coddling
opinion Liberals are right to be furious. And it's good politics too.
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American government is heading for a climate-induced legitimacy crisis
opinion Revolutions happen when a political system fails to address huge, obvious problems
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Democrats make governing much harder than it needs to be
opinion The insistence on a bipartisan infrastructure deal means the Biden agenda still has several hurdles to clear
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What makes a country great?
opinion 'Richer than Hungary' is a sadly low bar for the United States
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Biden's eviction moratorium isn't the abuse of power his critics claim
opinion The rule of law has much bigger problems
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The Democrats' new cult of the popular
opinion Why 'talk about popular issues' is not the magic answer the party is looking for
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