Brian Cook - In These Times

Brian Cook was an editor at In These Times from 2003 to 2009. He now works on the editorial staff of Playboy magazine.

Brian started at the magazine as an intern in December 2001, and became editorial assistant in July 2003, and assistant editor in November 2003. In addition to contributing columns on current events, he reviews literature and has written on language in politics for the magazine. Brian received his B.A. in English Literature from the University of Richmond, Va., in 1999. He has previously worked as a waiter, a personal care assistant at an Alzheimers’ facility, a Chicago Public School substitute teacher and a freelance question writer for Trivial Pursuit.

‘The Demon of Anal Fissures’

A Response To The Moronic Inferno

Interview with Todorov

Inequality Kills

Memphis, 40 Years Ago

You’re Good Enough, You’re Smart Enough, and Gosh Darnit, You Can Ignore Those Gnawing H

A Word To The Unwise

The Newest Corporate Growth Industry: Public Place Holders!

Our (Yellow) Bodies, Ourselves

Joys of ‘The Wire’

Some critics have called HBO's hit series 'depressing' and 'nihilistic.' They couldn't be more wrong.

Barack and the Bottom-Up

Infrastructure, finally…Really?

The Only Endorsement That Matters

Simulacra and Stimulation

Duck and Cover, Mr. Frum. Duck and Cover.

Links for the Day

The First Rule About Campus Conservatives…

I Can Has Book Deal?

Writaz Wit Attitude

Ridin’ With A Touch of Class

“Appropriately Venomous”

National (Anti-)Labor Relations Board

The Carried Interest Loophole

Review of Break Through

The Air War in Iraq Gets Even Worse

Lessig on Corruption

Blackwater Nation

Contracting soldiers of fortune is only one example of our recent philosophy of government

Cold, Hard Truths Part II

Sherrod Brown Drops the Knowledge on the Costa Rican CAFTA vote

America: “A Pants-Piddling Mess”

Akbar Ganji’s Open Letter

The Kids Aren’t Alright

Daniel Brook's The Trap reminds us that inequality is bad for everyone, rich and poor

Death from Above

For the Iraqi people, the surge in U.S. troops has meant more bombs dropping from the sky and a surge in deaths

Why are the Communications Workers of America opting out of the Save the Internet coalition?

The Spychopath Who Loved Me

A Nation Is Not a Plate

The United States should be held responsible for its crimes and destruction in Iraq with a withdrawl and reparations.

It Came From the Beltway

Joe Lieberman is not a centrist.

But Was He Also Munching Scat?

The New Slum Dwellers

Theyve Come for Us All

The Limits of Empathy

Exit, Raped by a Bear

50 and Bush: A Match Made in Heaven

Puppets on the Left, Puppets on the Right

Scalito’s Greatest Hits

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