The war in Iran alone could easily cost more than $2 trillion.
Ryan Cooper
Ryan Cooper is a senior editor at The American Prospect, and author of How Are You Going to Pay for That?: Smart Answers to the Dumbest Question in Politics. He was previously a national correspondent for The Week. His work has also appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, and Current Affairs.
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Left Anchor: The Odyssey, Reviewed
A speaker of Homeric Greek weighs in on Christopher Nolan’s film.
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Posted inEconomic Policy
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No one else has any ideas worth pointlessly compromising.
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Vote blue no matter who? Not if you’re too brown!
Posted inTechnology
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Posted inLaw and Justice
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Every Trump lackey must indulge his whims, no matter how stupid.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Drain Lake Powell
That would start what is the only sane water policy for the American West.
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Left Anchor: A Biden Climate Retrospective
What can we learn from the partial dismantlement of the Inflation Reduction Act?