The American Prospect
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Image:American Prospect.jpg The American Prospect is a monthly magazine "of liberal ideas, committed to a just society, an enriched democracy, and effective liberal politics"[1] which focuses on U.S. politics and public policy. Roughly speaking, its politics are to the left of The New Republic and to the right of The Nation.
The magazine was founded in 1990 by Robert Kuttner, Robert Reich, and Paul Starr as a response to the intellectual ascendancy of conservatism in the 1980s. Originally it published quarterly, then bimonthly. In 2000, thanks to a grant from the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, it became biweekly. Financial and logistical difficulties ensued, and the magazine moved to its present monthly format in spring 2003. Currently Kuttner and Starr share the title of Editor with Michael Tomasky, former columnist for New York magazine, and executive editor of The American Prospect. Harold Meyerson currently serves as Editor-at-Large. Its editorial headquarters are in Washington DC.
The magazine's alums include Jonathan Chait, Jonathan Cohn, Joshua Green, Joshua Micah Marshall, Jedediah Purdy, and Scott Stossel.
Not to be confused with Prospect (magazine).