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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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Back in the Big Labor Fold
Monday, 12 August 2013 08:49
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Last Thursday, the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW)—the 1.3 million-member union of retail workers, chiefly supermarket employees—announced that it was leaving the breakaway mini-labor federation, Change To Win, and rejoining the AFL-CIO. Of the six unions that left the AFL-CIO in 2005 to form Change To Win—the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the Teamsters, the UFCW, UNITE HERE, the Laborers, and the United Farm Workers (UFW)—only SEIU, the Teamsters, and the Farm Workers (the last with probably fewer than 10,000 members) remain. Two-point-zero-something unions do not a federation make, but then, Change To Win, despite all its lofty ambitions, never amounted to a federation.
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Customizing the News
Wednesday, 07 August 2013 00:00
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Many of the articles speculating about what changes Jeff Bezos will make to the newspaper business now that he’s bought The Washington Post have suggested that he’ll customize the news. Just as Amazon’s success has been driven by its tracking of, and meeting, customer preferences, a slew of business commentators have commented, so a newspaper’s contents can be segmented into readers’ areas of interest and delivered to them accordingly.
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L.A. Story
Tuesday, 06 August 2013 00:00
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Take a left as you exit the Long Beach Airport, and you’ll pass three acres of greenery named “Rosie the Riveter Park.” The park stands at the southeast corner of what had once been the mammoth Douglas Aircraft factory, where DC-3s, -4s, -5s, all the way up to -10s, were once manufactured, and where, during World War II, 43,000 workers, half of them women, built the B-17 bombers and C-47 transports that flew missions over Europe and the Pacific.
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Part-Time America
Monday, 05 August 2013 00:00
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Of the 963,000 jobs created in the past six months, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) Household Surveys, 936,000 of them are part-time. That doesn’t mean that just 27,000 of the people hired on to new jobs got full-time work. The total for part-time jobs includes both newly created jobs and formerly full-time gigs that were cut-back to part-time, and the BLS doesn’t pose the questions that would enable it to quantify these two kinds of new part-time jobs. But factoring in both kinds, we do know that the net number of full-time jobs in America has risen by just 27,000 since the end of January.
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Strikes, Alliances, and Survival
Monday, 29 July 2013 00:00
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Fast-food workers in seven cities are set to walk off their jobs today in one-day actions, escalating what is quickly becoming a nationwide effort to win pay hikes in one of America’s premier poverty-wage industries. Backed by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the campaign is succeeding in publicizing the plight of low-wage workers in a growing number of states and cities.
How it goes about actually winning higher wages, however, remains unclear.
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What Tom Friedman Doesn’t Understand About the Economy, Part 72
Monday, 22 July 2013 00:00
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“Average is over,” New York Times columnist Tom Friedman likes to proclaim, and in at least one particular, he’s right. Friedman no longer writes average columns. With each passing week, his efforts become steadily more moronic.
His latest, in Sunday’s paper, is entitled “Welcome to the Sharing Economy,” and in it, Friedman mistakes economic marginality and desperation for innovation and opportunity. The subject of this particular essay is Airbnb, a website where travelers go to rent bedrooms in other people’s homes.
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