Harold Meyerson, Author at The American Prospect

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The Democrats’ On-Again, Off-Again Class Politics

After World War II, Dems lost touch with their New Deal roots. Now they’re coming back home.

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For reasons both good and bad, big cities don’t figure much in the states that will kick off the presidential primaries.

The state that was the foremost champion of unpaid human labor now fosters a new-age version of it.

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The right’s attacks actually don’t focus on socialism’s defining economics.

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The absence of left unity for the ballot measure short-circuits any progressive agenda.

Socialism has not been this popular in America in at least a century, but how it’s defined, and who defines it, matters.

If the economy is the issue, he can win Michigan in November.

A. Philip Randolph led Black workers and won defining civil rights victories over a career spanning 60 turbulent years.

The politics of urban racial, class, and regime succession.

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Zohran Mamdani’s appointments to steer New York’s economic development reflect the win-win of people-centered growth.