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 Founded in 1978 by former New York journalist and free spirit Jay Levin, the Weekly has long been the most highly regarded alternative weekly in the nation. Under editors Levin, Kit Rachlis, Sue Horton and Laurie Ochoa, the Weekly has been home both to first rate arts and cultural criticism, but in-depth political reporting and commentary on matters local, national and global. As executive editor from 1989 through 2001, Meyerson focused the paper on the transformation of Los Angeles – the decimation of manufacturing, the growth of a bipolar economy, and the rise of a labor-Latino alliance that’s been a model for progressive coalitions in other cities. The roster of Weekly writers past and present includes Manohla Dargis, John Powers, Steve Erickson, Michael Ventura, Ella Taylor, Jonathan Gold, Tom Carson, Ruben Martinez and Marc Cooper.
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From "The Liberal Hour"
Wednesday, 03 December 2008 16:00
LA Weekly
It's an exaggeration to say that liberals ever controlled the Democratic Party, but by any measure, holding them down to a single hour's speechifying has to mark a new low....
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Out of the Frying Pan
Saturday, 11 November 2006 16:00
LA Weekly
For those of you who follow such things, the reports of my impending severance from and by the Weekly are not exaggerated. For readers who developed a chemical dependency on me during the past 17 years in which I've been writing this column for the Weekly, I do appear every Wednesday on the op-ed page of the Washington Post. My work can also be found in the pages of The American Prospect (www.prospect.org), the Washington-based liberal monthly where I've worked for the past five years and where I'm taking the helm next week as executive editor. And all my work is glumped gloriously together on my own Web site, www.haroldmeyerson.com. (Note to editors: Yeah, it's not a word. What's it to you?)
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Our Town, Our Paper
Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:00
LA Weekly
'TIS THE FINAL COLUMN, the last Powerlines, and I'd like to use it to think back and forward about the city I've reported on and marveled at and hectored and prodded for nearly two decades.
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An Autumn's Long Nap
Wednesday, 20 September 2006 16:00
LA Weekly
PHIL ANGELIDES IS SO LEAN that it's hard to find a physical description of the Democratic gubernatorial nominee that doesn't include the word "gangly." With just under seven weeks until Election Day, he seems to be made of lead, a dead weight threatening to drag down other worthy Democrats and ballot measures to an undeserved defeat.
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Y'all Don't Come Back
Wednesday, 06 September 2006 16:00
LA Weekly
ALL THE HOO-HA about immigration notwithstanding, America remains more a white working-class nation than anything else. Those white Americans may no longer be laboring on farms or in factories, and the national median skin color is clearly growing darker, but, as public-opinion analyst Ruy Teixeira and sociologist Joel Rogers have demonstrated, working-class whites in this country still outnumber any other class or race.
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Reversing Brain Waves
Wednesday, 23 August 2006 16:00
LA Weekly
PERVERSE THOUGH IT MAY SOUND, the one thing that this year's gubernatorial race has confirmed is that to become, or remain, governor of California, you have to come across as a Democrat. Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't a Democrat, of course, but he currently plays one on television, and, as in almost all of his films, while his performance isn't really stellar, the production values may carry the day.
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In September, 2009 Atlantic Monthly named Harold Meyerson one of 50 Most Influential Columnists. Calling its list “its all-star team,” Atlantic Monthly’s Top 50 are the most influential commentators in the nation – the columnists and bloggers and broadcast pundits who shape the national debates. Harold Meyerson is honored to be in their midst.
