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.

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Opinion

The drone war's quiet decline

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Opinion

The Omicron oracle

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Heading for population collapse?

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The bottomless self-pity of American conservatives

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The downside of a functional Fed?

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Democrats' dangerous denial

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Awful optics, awful corruption

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The 1 way to stop gerrymandering

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How to help Africa get COVID shots into arms

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Opinion

A month of inflation does not a crisis make

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Executive privilege is endangering democracy

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How to prevent another grim pandemic winter

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Opinion

The most underrated part of the electric revolution

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Time for businesses to humanize — or die

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The deadly toll of pandemic denial

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Why blaming white voters is bad politics

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Ryan Cooper

Animals likely started the pandemic. They'll likely keep it going, too.

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Democrats: This is no time to panic

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Opinion

Our diseased presidential democracy

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Humanity's great capabilities

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Opinion

Why Afghanistan faded from headlines

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Abolish the Senate?

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The exaggerated threat of hypersonic missiles

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The forgotten history of Republican book banning

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Why vaccinating low-risk kids still makes sense

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If bosses want workers, they have to actually try

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Toss them out?

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Amazon accidentally makes a case for its own regulation

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Opinion

The cost of climate inaction

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Democrats' months of dithering

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Will Biden publish the documents?

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Betraying his own state?

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Opinion

American workers are fed up

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The European right is in retreat

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Democratic disaster in Virginia

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Opinion

The case for spending our way through inflation