Stealing its central bank reserves is not going to do anything except starve innocent civilians.
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.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
On Health Care, the Filibuster Means We Get Medicare for All or Nothing
Time to ditch this nonsensical fake tradition.
Posted inPolitics
Republicans Just Exposed Their Greatest Weakness
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Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Republicans Have Created a Pro-Life Dystopia
And they’re not going to do anything to fix it.
Posted inLaw and Justice
What to Do About the Court
A Prospect symposium on judicial review and the separation of powers
Posted inLaw and Justice
American Government-by-Lawsuit Is a Disaster
Judicial review is not just anti-democratic, it strangles ordinary governance.
Posted inPolitics
Senate Democrats Must Shoot Down Biden’s Anti-Abortion Court Nominee
It’s bad policy and worse politics.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Case Against Judicial Review
If Democrats don’t bring the Supreme Court to heel, Americans will live under judicial despotism for the foreseeable future.
Posted inPolitics
President Biden Is Not Cutting the Mustard
Young people are abandoning him in droves because he won’t fight for their rights and freedom.
Posted inTAP
Mitch McConnell Once Again Takes Advantage of Democratic Fecklessness
Today on TAP: Senate Democrats can’t move because they’re standing on their own feet.