Latest articles by Ryan Cooper
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America is turning Puerto Rico into GreeceThe Explainer The United States is now bleeding the island dry to satisfy wealthy bondholders
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How to keep Uber from becoming a terrifying monopolyopinion Here are five ways the government can fight the rampaging company
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Don't look now, but American judges are attacking debtor's prisonThe Explainer Finally some good news
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How Uber could become a nightmarish monopolyThe Explainer What if every time you took a taxi, you were charged the absolute maximum you could afford?
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The plunder of the American prison systemThe Explainer This is how mass incarceration became a profit vehicle
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Obama was the best president for the stock market since EisenhowerSpeed Read
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How to fix the American copopinion To stop murders, solve the ones that have already happened
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Israel's self-imposed exileopinion The Palestinian occupation has left Israel all but friendless absent American protection
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A florist from California is driving a 'homemade tank' to battle ISIS in SyriaSpeed Read
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The American Blob is already oozing into Syriaopinion Washington's foreign policy elite is pushing for a new war in the Middle East. Can it be stopped?
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Why organic chemistry is awesomeThe Explainer The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry affords a great opportunity to appreciate the quiet glory of this field
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Closing the wage gap would help rich women vastly more than poor womenopinion That doesn't mean it's a bad idea. But don't forget about women making minimum wage.
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How European elites set up Greece for a fascist takeoveropinion They've systematically destroyed every party but the extreme right
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The case for pardoning Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manningopinion Snowden needs to be allowed to escape Russia, and Manning has suffered enough
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What will the browning of America do to the female workforce?The Explainer More stay-at-home moms means fewer working women
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Why America's good fortune won't lastThe Explainer The U.S. finally heard great economic news — and it's probably unsustainable
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Why the national park is the best idea America ever hadopinion America's greatest innovation might be preservation
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America needs a public option for the internetopinion Private industry is strangling America's internet. The government needs to step in.
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The secret tribunals that fleece the worldfeature This is how corporations bring governments to their knees
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This landmark prison study has 1 big problemThe Explainer Some rich kids were probably counted as poor
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How lead poisoning wreaks havoc on American educationThe Explainer This might be the most underreported issue in school reform
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The Federal Reserve is living in a fantasylandopinion Wake up, Federal Reserve Board sheeple
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The American retirement crisis is realopinion Here's what 401(k) apologists miss about the retirement crisis
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Why childlessness can't stave off climate apocalypseThe Explainer As a strategy for dealing with climate change, forgoing kids is garbage. Let me explain.
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