Ryan Cooper
American Prospect
Philadelphia, PA, United States
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The Useful Idiots Fueling the Right-Wing Transphobia Panic
Today on TAP: Prominent center-left journalists were swindled by obvious nonsense about a St. Louis gender clinic. → Read More
Elon Musk Shows How Oligarchy Poisons the Speech Commons
Free speech is not when one rich guy gets to shout 1,000 times louder than anyone else. → Read More
The Chinese Spy Balloon Is No Big Deal
Intelligence gathering is always going to happen between great powers. → Read More
Does COVID-19 Damage the Immune System?
The balance of evidence strongly indicates that outside of rare cases, it does not. → Read More
Republicans Furiously Defend Insurance Company Looting of Medicare
Medicare Advantage is a scam. That’s why conservatives love it. → Read More
The Fed’s Favorite Inflation Measure Has Some Large Holes
There are strong reasons to think we can have stable prices and low unemployment. → Read More
Joe Manchin’s Dumb Budget Idea Already Failed Before
In 2011, Congress created a ‘super committee’ to come to a bipartisan compromise on austerity. It didn’t work. → Read More
The Smart Bipartisan Plan to Shore Up Social Security
Bill Cassidy and Angus King propose an American social wealth fund. → Read More
On the debt limit, Biden should learn to love the platinum coin
It would be just as illegal to obey the debt ceiling as it would be to ignore it. → Read More
From the North Atlantic to Rural Tennessee
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The Best Tax System on Earth
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At Least the Tech Winter Will Kill Off Some Zombie Companies
A decade of ultra-cheap credit and weak consumer spending created some of the biggest money-losing companies in history. → Read More
The anti-abortion movement overturned Roe — and only reduced abortions by 6%
Anti-abortion activists are trying to get a Trump-appointed judge to declare abortion pills unconstitutional. But it would likely have only a temporary effect. → Read More
Elon Musk’s Twitter Debacle Shows the Problem With Billionaires
One person should not control nation-sized pots of resources. → Read More
Republicans Are in for Two Years of Hell
Trump and the Freedom Caucus are going to unleash chaos in their own party. → Read More
Democrats Are Getting Their Act Together at the State Level
A long-overdue effort to contest Republican dominance of state legislatures is bearing fruit. → Read More
Republicans Have a Disease Called Donald Trump
Sane parties change their tune when they lose repeatedly. The GOP is not sane. → Read More
Tech Company Workers Should Unionize Immediately
What happened to Twitter could happen to any Silicon Valley company. → Read More
How Obama blew his retirement
His eloquence on the campaign trail only underlines his absence for most of every election cycle. → Read More
How Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders Helped Lula Win
A democratic America took the air out of the Brazilian far right. → Read More