Kit Rachlis is the editor of The American Prospect.
Meet the Staff
Robert Kuttner
Robert Kuttner is co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect, as well as a distinguished senior fellow of the think tank Demos. He was a longtime columnist for Business Week and continues to write columns in The Boston Globe. He is the author of Obama's Challenge and other books.
Paul Starr
Paul Starr is co-editor of the The American Prospect. His most recent book is Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle over Health Care Reform. Click here to read more about Starr.
Bob Moser
Bob Moser is the executive editor of The American Prospect. He is the former editor of The Texas Observer and author of Blue Dixie: Awakening the South's Democratic Majority.
Harold Meyerson
Harold Meyerson is the editor-at-large at The American Prospect and a columnist for The Washington Post.
Gabriel Arana
Gabriel Arana is a senior editor at The American Prospect. His articles on gay rights, immigration, and media have appeared in publications including The Nation, Salon, The Advocate, and The Daily Beast. To contact him, visit his website.
Monica Potts
Monica Potts is a senior writer for The American Prospect. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Connecticut Post and the Stamford Advocate. She also blogs at PostBourgie.
Abby Rapoport
Abby Rapoport is a staff writer at The American Prospect. She was previously a political reporter for the Texas Observer.
Jay Harris
Jay Harris is the publisher of The American Prospect and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos.
From 1991 to 2009, Jay was the president and publisher of Mother Jones, the investigative news organization.
Most recently, Jay has been a media consultant and the director of the We the People Campaign, a project, started with Jim Hightower and Katrina vanden Heuvel, to fight the dominance of corporate influence in elections and policy. As a consultant to independent media brands, Jay has specialized in strategy for organizations with “hybrid” business models—ones that support journalistic missions through a combination of commercial and philanthropic revenues.
Jay is the president of the board of the Public Intelligence Foundation (publishers of the Hightower Lowdown) and serves on the board of the First Amendment Coalition and the communications advisory board of Human Rights Watch. He lives in San Francisco.
Susan Jed
Susan Jed is the development associate at The American Prospect. She has worked previously in global philanthropy and also as a congressional staffer on Capitol Hill. Susan holds a master's degree in social/public policy from Georgetown University.
Editorial Interns
Andrea Anastasio, Nathan Kohlenberg, Ilana Ostrin, Karl Singer
Contributing Editors
Spencer Ackerman, Marcia Angell, Alan Brinkley, Jonathan Cohn, Ann Crittenden, Robert Dreyfus, Jeff Faux, Ann Friedman, Michelle Goldberg, Gershom Gorenberg, E.J. Graff, Bob Herbert, Arlie Hochschild, Christopher Jencks, Randall Kennedy, Chris Mooney, Sarah Posner, Jedediah Purdy, Robert D. Putnam, Richard Rothstein, Deborah A. Stone, Noy Thrupkaew, Michael Tomasky, Paul Waldman, Willian Julius Wilson, Matthew Yglesias
Board of Directors
Janet Shenk (chairperson), Stephen B. Heintz (vice-chairperson), Amelia Warren Tyagi (secretary), Benjamin Taylor (treasurer)
Mark Alexander, Jacob S. Hacker, Robert Kuttner, Arnie Miller, Miles Rapoport, Adele Simmons, Paul Starr, Kit Rachlis (ex officio), Jay Harris (ex officio)
Co-Founder
Robert B. Reich
Founding Sponsors: Kenneth J. Arrow, Daniel Bell (1919-2011), Kenneth B. Clark (1914-2005), Marian Wright Edelman, John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006), Sidney Harman (1918-2011), Irving Harris (1910-2004), Albert O. Hirschman, Harry Kahn (1917-1999), Charles Lindblom, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917-2007), Fritz Stern, James Tobin (1918-2002), Frank Weil
