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Ryan Cooper

National correspondent

Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.

Rand Paul and Tucker Carlson.

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Correcting the record about Jim Crow

Houses.

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Rethinking real estate

The Capitol.

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Opinion

Infrastructure deal breaker?

Donald Trump.

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Opinion

What really happened in Lafayette Square?

A cigar lit with a 1040.

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Opinion

How to tax billionaire wealth

America.

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Opinion

Let the post-pandemic boom ride

A striking worker.

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Will Biden defend Alabama miners?

President Biden.

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Opinion

Democrats' unemployment mistake

A construction handout.

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Opinion

An easy solution for infrastructure

The earth on fire.

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Oil companies face reality

TNT and a detonator.

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Bad for business

Money.

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Do cops deserve more funding?

A scam phone call.

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The government needs to stamp out scam calls

Elephants.

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Republicans' deal with the Donald

A man watching a helicopter.

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The Afghans who helped

Negotiations.

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Fake negotiations?

The Capitol riot.

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Opinion

Did the insurrection end?

Chris Cuomo.

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Why Emily Wilder got fired and Chris Cuomo didn't

Bitcoin being chased.

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Will cryptocurrency cause the next financial crisis?

Ilhan Omar

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Why single out Ilhan Omar?

Stephen Breyer.

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Breyer's delusion

Larry Krasner.

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Opinion

The backlash to police reform in Philadelphia

President Biden.

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Biden's green light for Israel

A woman and a pulled zipper.

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Republicans' dishonest war against 'critical race theory'

Karl Marx.

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The Republican theory of unemployment is classic Marx

An elephant and a donkey.

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Democrats are fiddling while Republicans prepare to burn down Rome

A big car.

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Car supremacy and America's traffic paradox

President Biden.

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Feature

How Joe Biden could vaccinate the world

A hiring sign.

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A bad jobs report is no reason to panic

Liz Cheney and Donald Trump.

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Liz Cheney's heresy

Student debt.

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The secret truth of the student debt crisis

Donkeys.

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Opinion

Democrats still won't get out of their own way

A worried woman.

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Europe is back in recession. It's not just the virus.

Mitch McConnell.

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Opinion

Republicans reveal their red line

President Biden.

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Biden's big spending plans are good. They are also a convoluted mess.

A rich man with lumber.

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Lumber is shockingly expensive. Thanks, Obama.