Ryan Cooper

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! 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. Here's an excerpt of the book: All human beings who

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 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 recapping the argument and repeating the exact same incredibly obvious

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

Sorry for missing the newsletter last week! I've been working on my next Youtube project, for some reason I find fiddling with video stuff very compelling. That should be done in another week or so, and I am actually going to try to film myself this time. In that vein,

There are some whiffs of labor militancy in the crisp autumn air. John Deere workers just rejected a recommended contract from their union leadership by about 9-1, and unless management drastically upgrades their offer it seems a strike is imminent. Mine workers have been on strike for months in Alabama.

Apologies for missing last week, I left early on a quick camping trip up to Vermont and didn't have time to get the newsletter out. However, the video I was talking about some time ago is now finished. It's about how Lord of the Rings contains a vision of conservatism

One of this week's articles makes the obvious comparison between the 20-year frenzy of imperialist aggression in response to a terrorist attack that killed 2,977 Americans versus the grudging response to a pandemic that has killed nearly 660,000 officially and probably over a million people all told. It