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

2 million words at The Week

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Opinion

The promise and peril of electric cars

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The growth backlash

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The Supreme Court is a bastion of unearned privilege

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Opinion

Silence on the Biden boom

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The spectacular risk of cryptocurrency investing

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Our economy is a group project

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The pointless timidity of the Jan. 6 committee

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The case against surveillance advertising

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The coronavirus vaccines are safer than aspirin or Tylenol

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The credulous response to Havana syndrome

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Losing the vaccinated majority?

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Microsoft's Activision Blizzard bailout

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America's long record of judicial despotism

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Chile's bold political experiment is a lesson for Americans

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The weirdest economy in decades

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Driving Afghanistan to famine

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A preview of GOP 1-party rule

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Triumph of the Biden-Trump stimulus?

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How America could have open schools

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Impunity is the rule for American elites

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Greg Abbott's ice-cold corruption

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The NFT craze has stopped being funny

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Ryan Cooper

Is Omicron less severe? It's complicated.

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Climate change is coming for the world's poles

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Opinion

Cut Joe Biden (half) a break on the Omicron surge

A sign protesting police brutality is seen in a Dallas trash can

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The still-urgent problem of police violence

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2 decades of left turns

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Ukraine hung out to dry?

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Ryan Cooper

Turns out bitcoin isn't radically democratic

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The health policy lesson Biden keeps forgetting

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Feeding the Taliban?

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Manchin's vile rationale?

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Opinion

Noble lies are a public health hazard

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A plea to Merrick Garland

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Opinion

Squandering their chance?