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 Founded in 1990 by three leading progressive intellectuals and policy experts – Robert Reich (later Secretary of Labor in the Clinton Administration), Robert Kuttner and Paul Starr – The American Prospect has evolved over its 15 years from liberalism’s most authoritative policy journal to a full-service liberal monthly, which has added in-depth political and social reporting and cultural commentary to its policy analyses. Recent Prospect articles widely cited in the press include Linda Hirshman’s reappraisal of feminism, Will Bunch’s expose of Republican Senator Rick Santorum’s dubious personal finances, and Mark Goldberg’s story on the butcher of Darfur who’s also a CIA asset. “Tapped,” the Prospect’s blog, is considered among the smartest and most liberal weblogs in the land, featuring such stellar young talents as Garance Franke-Ruta and Matt Yglesias.
In 2001, the magazine moved its editorial operations from Boston to Washington, DC, as Kuttner stepped down from day-to-day editing and Harold Meyerson, moving east from Los Angeles, took the reins. Today, the magazine is edited by former New York Magazine political editor Michael Tomasky, and Meyerson, as editor-at-large, authors a wide range of pieces. In the current April issue, he has a major piece on the problems of the economy in the era of outsourcing, which asks the question: Can America survive American capitalism?
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End of the Divorce?
January 07, 2009
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Presidents of the nation's largest unions, along with the presidents of the two national labor federations, the AFL-CIO and Change To Win (CTW), met Wednesday in Washington to discuss how they can reunify their fragmented movement. The meeting took place as, and in no small part because, the unions are gearing up to battle for their lives in the coming congressional fight over the Employees Free Choice Act.
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A Global New Deal
December 14, 2008
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If you look at all of the U.S.-based operations of American International Group (AIG) -- the insurance and annuities company that our government has been compelled to take over and bail out with more than $100 billion of our money -- it's hard to see how the company got into trouble. Within the United States, AIG consisted largely of regulated insurance companies, subject to the conscientious oversight of 50 state insurance commissioners. How could such a company go wrong?
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The Reformer and the Racketeer
December 09, 2008
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There's a scene in the 1940 film The Great McGinty, writer-director Preston Sturges' rollicking comedy about big-city political corruption (and keep in mind that the big city where Sturges grew up was Chicago), in which the mayor invites a would-be contractor to look at a photograph that is hanging on his office wall. The photograph shows a sports stadium filled to capacity.
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The Case for Keeping the Big Three Out of Bankruptcy
November 23, 2008
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The United Auto Workers' pamphlet is nothing if not explicit in criticizing the direction of the American automobile industry. New cars cost too much relative to the buying power of the American public, it says. They are oversized. Their fuel efficiency is appallingly low.
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Why Waxman Won
November 20, 2008
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Henry Waxman's victory over John Dingell yesterday in the fight for the chairmanship of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee isn't the first time that Waxman has ousted a more senior member. Back in 1978, when Waxman had been a member of Congress for just four years, he unseated the more senior Richardson Preyer, a Democrat from North Carolina, as chairman of the Health Subcommittee of Energy and Commerce. In those days, Waxman raised tons of money from his affluent Westside L.A. district, which he donated to House Democratic candidates from around the country. For the past decade, Waxman hasn't been the fundraiser and donor he once was, but it will be interesting to look at what donations he may have made in the past several months.
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The Democratic Majority Has Emerged
November 09, 2008
Prospect.org
There are, in theory, two kinds of political realignments. The first occurs when major groups within the electorate alter some of their political sensibilities or discover that the political party that expresses their sensibilities isn't the one they've been voting for but another party altogether. The second occurs when a group that hasn't really been in the electorate at all enters it or at least greatly increases its numbers.
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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.
