Ryan Cooper

What do we do with the police? Despite efforts from both liberals and conservatives to bury the George Floyd movement, there's a new story of police brutality virtually every day, and the question keeps bubbling. I've been meaning to set down some basic thoughts on the question, and some tweets

In a previous newsletter, I frankly discussed my view that the United States is careening towards a right-wing dictatorship that is highly likely to be either deranged or unstable or both over the medium term, thus threatening a chaotic collapse of the global economic system that might kill billions (especially

A short newsletter this time, because I am going on vacation for two weeks to get married starting tomorrow, and also because I imagine like most readers I have been emotionally gutted by the school shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas. I don't think I will ever forget this

I've been listening to the British History Podcast [https://www.thebritishhistorypodcast.com/] by Jamie Jeffers, which is a pretty good pop history-type series that really digs deep into the material—after 390 episodes it's just getting to the Norman conquest. So far I'm just getting into the Anglo-Saxon period after

Apologies for the prolonged radio silence, as you may have seen I recently started a new job at The American Prospect. It turns out being managing editor of a print magazine is a ton of work involving a lot of things I hadn't done in nearly a decade. For the

I'm shamefully late in writing this, but today is publication day for my book [https://read.macmillan.com/lp/how-are-you-going-to-pay-for-that/]! I'm doing a launch event with David Dayen at the POWERHOUSE Arena at 7 pm today – remote of course, so you can check it out here [https://www.eventbrite.com/

Matt Yglesias reminds me of an argument I've been meaning to make for some time. Here he makes the case against reducing the supply of labor – that is, cutting the number of people who are employed and/or the hours they are working. This is happening thanks to the pandemic,

Last week this self-described "comedian" and YouTube guy started an argument with me [https://twitter.com/jimmy_dore/status/1458439225699823618] on Twitter about whether the flu is more deadly to kids than Covid. Much to my surprise he then made an entire episode of his video show [https://www.youtube.

Hello there! I took a red eye flight home after visiting my family in Colorado this weekend, and so I don't have much by way of witty repartee today. However, my new video on what conservatives mean when they say freedom – namely, that they should get to do whatever they