Institute for Justice and Journalism

Criminal Justice Fellows, 2002-2003

Marc Cooper
Contributing Editor
The Nation and LA Weekly

Marc Cooper, Senior Fellow (Border Justice, 9/11 Security and Liberty), is a contributing editor at the Nation magazine, a columnist at L.A. Weekly and a regular commentator for the Los Angeles Times Sunday Opinion section. He serves as host and executive producer of the weekly syndicated Radio Nation heard on 125 public radio stations. And he is a journalism lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. He is also a fellow at the Los Angeles Institute of the Humanities at USC and a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, also based at USC. He reports on politics and culture from across the country and around the world. His articles, essays and interviews have appeared in scores of publications ranging from Harper's and The New Yorker to Rolling Stone, Playboy and the London Times. Cooper has also worked as a documentary news correspondent and producer for the Christian Science Monitor, CBS News and PBS Frontline. He has covered conflict, war and revolution in Asia, Africa and South and Central America and cultural and political stories locally. His books include "Roll Over Che Guevara" (Verso 1995), "Pinochet and Me: A Chilean Anti-Memoir" (Verso 2001) and "The Last Honest Place in America: Paradise and Perdition in the New Las Vegas" (forthcoming Fall 2003 Nation Books).

Fellowship Project:

Case of Spinelessness; What Dick Gephardt and the L.A. Times have in common
AS I WATCHED GEORGE W. BUSH deliver his Big Speech on Iraq earlier this week, I half-expected to see the freckled, grinning visage of Dick Gephardt pop right out of the president's breast pocket. But then I remembered the House Democratic leader had recently attached himself to a lower part of Dubya's anatomy and was out of view.

Book Review: Ann Louise Bardach's Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana
READING ANN LOUISE BARDACH'S ACCOUNTS OF life among the Cuban elites of both Miami and Havana, you reach one major conclusion: that arbitrarily stuffing all Cubans into one of two categories -- either pro-revolutionary Fidelistas on the island or counterrevolutionary gusanos (worms) in Miami exile -- no longer tracks with a much more complicated reality.

On the Border of Hyprocrisy: The unintended consequences of getting tough on illegal immigration
This article was produced as part of the Border Justice Fellowship Program of the Institute for Justice and Journalism at USC's Annenberg School for Communication. Marc Cooper is a Justice and Journalism Senior Fellow.

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	Criminal Justice Fellows, 2002-2003 Marc Cooper Contributing Editor The Nation and LA Weekly Marc Cooper, Senior Fellow (Border Justice, 9/11 Security and Liberty), is a contributing editor at the Nation magazine, a columnist at L.A. Weekly and a regular commentator for the Los Angeles Times Sunday Opinion section. He serves as host and executive producer of the weekly syndicated Radio Nation heard on 125 public radio stations. And he is a journalism lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. He is also a fellow at the Los Angeles Institute of the Humanities at USC and a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, also based at USC. He reports on politics and culture from across the country and around the world. His articles, essays and interviews have appeared in scores of publications ranging from Harper's and The New Yorker to Rolling Stone, Playboy and the London Times. Cooper has also worked as a documentary news correspondent and producer for the Christian Science Monitor, CBS News and PBS Frontline. He has covered conflict, war and revolution in Asia, Africa and South and Central America and cultural and political stories locally. His books include "Roll Over Che Guevara" (Verso 1995), "Pinochet and Me: A Chilean Anti-Memoir" (Verso 2001) and "The Last Honest Place in America: Paradise and Perdition in the New Las Vegas" (forthcoming Fall 2003 Nation Books). Fellowship Project: Case of Spinelessness; What Dick Gephardt and the L.A. Times have in common AS I WATCHED GEORGE W. BUSH deliver his Big Speech on Iraq earlier this week, I half-expected to see the freckled, grinning visage of Dick Gephardt pop right out of the president's breast pocket. But then I remembered the House Democratic leader had recently attached himself to a lower part of Dubya's anatomy and was out of view. Book Review: Ann Louise Bardach's Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana READING ANN LOUISE BARDACH'S ACCOUNTS OF life among the Cuban elites of both Miami and Havana, you reach one major conclusion: that arbitrarily stuffing all Cubans into one of two categories -- either pro-revolutionary Fidelistas on the island or counterrevolutionary gusanos (worms) in Miami exile -- no longer tracks with a much more complicated reality. On the Border of Hyprocrisy: The unintended consequences of getting tough on illegal immigration This article was produced as part of the Border Justice Fellowship Program of the Institute for Justice and Journalism at USC's Annenberg School for Communication. Marc Cooper is a Justice and Journalism Senior Fellow. Back