Harold Meyerson

After all, if the Trump roundup persists, they're likely to join the troops who enforced the Fugitive Slave Act in history's moral dustbin. Harold Meyerson is executive editor of the American Prospect. He is a contributing writer to Opinion. Follow the Opinion section on Twitter @latimesopinion or Facebook ...

Already, as Harold Meyerson at the American Prospect explains, states are the “primary funders of education, transportation, local infrastructure, and public safety.” As a result, states quickly feel economic strain, meaning that any tough decisions could target new reforms like public financing first.

In the front section of the print edition of today's New York Times—on page A13 in the version printed for the Washington, D.C., area, and for all I know, in other areas, too—a full-page ad appears with the headline “Censure Donald Trump.” Beneath the headline are 34 grounds for censure that the 57,000 ...

Six days ago, I was having an email exchange with the author of a piece I was editing on how Democrats can both turn out their base and reach out to voters outside their base in the 2018 midterms. We were going back and forth on three points in the piece—chiefly, on whether Latinos could be said to have ...

This article appears in the Winter 2018 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Of all the titans of our new Gilded Age, the only one to attain the status of culture hero was—and still is—Steve Jobs. This wasn't simply a function of his personal magnetism, though he certainly outshone ...

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Senator Bernie Sanders holds a press conference on his Medicare for All bill on Capitol Hill. I'm a fervent supporter of Bernie Sanders's Medicare for All bill, which he introduced Wednesday along with 16 Senate Democrat co-sponsors—and not only because I believe health care is a right and that a ...

Last week, Libby Schaaf, mayor of Oakland, took the logic of so-called sanctuary cities and states one step further by warning that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had planned a raid on immigrants in the country illegally. Over the weekend, roughly 150 immigrants were apprehended in Northern ...