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About Harold @HaroldMeyerson

Since 2001, Harold Meyerson has been an editor of The American Prospect, the Washington-based liberal magazine, oscillating between the positions of Editor at Large and Executive Editor (his current post). From 2003 to 2016, he was a weekly Washington Post op-ed columnist. From 1989 through 2001, he was executive editor of the L.A. Weekly, the nation’s largest metropolitan weekly. His articles on politics, labor, the economy, foreign policy and American culture have also appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Nation, The New Statesman; the op-ed, commentary and book review sections of The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times, and in numerous other publications. He is a member of the editorial board of Dissent. His print journalism has won numerous awards. He is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.

Meyerson is also the co-author of Who Put The Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz?, a critical biography of Broadway lyricist Yip Harburg. In 1987-8, he was a regular commentator for The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, and from the late ‘70s through the mid-‘80s, he was a political consultant for a range of progressive causes and candidates. From 1991 through 1995, Meyerson hosted the weekly show “Real Politics” on radio station KCRW, the Los Angeles area’s leading NPR affiliate. He has been a frequent guest on television and radio talk shows. Educated in Los Angeles public schools and at Columbia University, Meyerson currently resides in Washington, D.C.

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Politics Jul 25

Column: The Democrats must be the party of the 99 percent

Now is the time for the Democratic party to reinvent its majoritarian program: an economics to create a more thriving and egalitarian nation.

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Column: Why neither candidate will ever return America to its 1950s prosperity

Restoring the widely shared prosperity of mid-1900s would be no mean challenge for a President Clinton, a President Trump or a President Anybody Else.

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