Ana Marie Cox

political journalist and author

Ana Marie Cox is a political journalist and author. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, Sports Illustrated, The Daily Beast and The Washington Post, among other places.


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2years ago
MS NOW Opinion

Why Republicans are embarrassing themselves after Alabama’s IVF ruling

Republicans must either be against any procedure that destroys a fetus or admit that fetuses are not people. Or they can lie to everyone about what they really believe.

2years ago
MS NOW Opinion

Trump’s reported support for federal abortion ban is a wake-up call for Biden

The horror of this moment could be a political gift, if only Democrats would accept it.

2years ago
MS NOW Opinion

A Trump White House could ban abortion pills. Start your stockpile today.

I want abortion pills to be so common that women can ask each other about them with a level of embarrassment akin to asking strangers for a tampon.

2years ago
MS NOW Opinion

I have bad news for the progressives currently beguiled by Liz Cheney

Liberals beware: This political transformation is not, in fact, very transformative.

2years ago
MS NOW Opinion

Vivek Ramaswamy is exploiting the Maine shooting to spread cruel health myths

The Republican primary candidate is using the deaths of at least 18 people to trot out brazenly disastrous and viciously uninformed rhetoric.

2years ago
MS NOW Opinion

Mitt Romney has an urgent message for McConnell. And Biden. And Trump.

Our leaders want everyone to just accept their age but they cannot admit they are simply old.

3years ago
MS NOW Opinion

Chris Christie’s Trump pivot has given us some zingers. Why it won’t help him win.

Christie is doing a lot more damage to Trump’s perpetually wounded ego than he is to Trump’s poll numbers.

3years ago
MS NOW Opinion

Trump’s feckless 2024 GOP rivals have only themselves to blame right now

Here is my mostly sincere advice: Go low, Republican presidential hopefuls! Go very low!

3years ago
MS NOW Opinion

The strange new humility of Donald Trump

He’s pantomiming the same old manic exaggerations and empty boasts, but if you listen closely, you’ll hear the whisper of a deflating air bag.

3years ago
MS NOW Opinion

The true meaning of James Comer’s Fox News backpedaling

Trump told Republicans they’d get “tired of winning,” but the party of fear wins elections by insisting they’re always on the edge of starting to lose.