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The American Prospect
''The American Prospect'' is a daily online and bimonthly print American political and public policy magazine dedicated to American modern liberalism and Progressivism in the United States, progressivism. Based in Washington, D.C., ''The American Prospect'' says it "is devoted to promoting informed discussion on public policy from a progressive perspective." Its motto is "Ideas, Politics, and Power". History The magazine, initially called ''The Liberal Prospect'', was founded in 1990 by Robert Kuttner, Robert Reich, and Paul Starr as a response to the perceived ascendancy of Conservatism in the United States, conservatism in the 1980s. Kuttner and Starr serve as co-editors. As of December 2024, David Dayen serves as executive editor and Mitch Grummon serves as publisher. Ganesh Sitaraman chairs the board of directors. Other editors include Managing Editor Ryan Cooper, co-founder and co-editor Robert Kuttner, Editor-at-Large Harold Meyerson, co-founder and co-editor Paul Starr, D ...
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Public Policy
Public policy is an institutionalized proposal or a Group decision-making, decided set of elements like laws, regulations, guidelines, and actions to Problem solving, solve or address relevant and problematic social issues, guided by a conception and often implemented by programs. These policies govern and include various aspects of life such as education, health care, employment, finance, economics, transportation, and all over elements of society. The implementation of public policy is known as public administration. Public policy can be considered the sum of a government's direct and indirect activities and has been conceptualized in a variety of ways. They are created and/or enacted on behalf of the public, typically by a government. Sometimes they are made by Non-state actors or are made in Co-production (public services), co-production with communities or citizens, which can include potential experts, scientists, engineers and stakeholders or scientific data, or sometimes u ...
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Randall Kennedy
Randall LeRoy Kennedy (born September 10, 1954) is an American legal scholar. He is the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard University and his research focuses on the intersection of racial conflict and legal institutions in American life. He specializes in contracts, freedom of expression, race relations law, civil rights legislation, and the Supreme Court. Kennedy has written seven books: ''Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity and Adoption''; '' Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word''; ''Race, Crime, and the Law''; ''Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal''; ''The Persistence of the Color Line''; ''For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law''; and ''Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture''. He has also published several collections of shorter works. Early life and education Randall LeRoy Kennedy was born on September 10, 1954, in Columbia, South Carolina, the middle child of Henry Kennedy Sr., a postal worker, and Rach ...
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Kit Rachlis
Kit Rachlis is an American journalist and editor who has held posts at ''The Village Voice'', ''LA Weekly'', ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Los Angeles'' magazine, ''The American Prospect'', ''The California Sunday Magazine,'' and currently ''ProPublica.'' Rachlis has been described as a practitioner of the long-form nonfiction narrative. Writers working under his guidance have been awarded a number of prizes, including the Pulitzer. In addition, he has edited more than a dozen books, including '' The Color of Law'' by Richard Rothstein. Early life and family Rachlis is the son of Eugene Rachlis, an author, book publisher, and magazine editor, and Mary Katherine (Mickey) Rachlis, an economics correspondent for the '' Journal of Commerce'' who wrote under the byline M.K. Sharp. He was born in Paris, France, where his father was serving as press attaché for the Marshall Plan, and raised in New York City. He attended Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned a Bachelor ...
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Demos (U
Demos may refer to: Computing * DEMOS, a Soviet Unix-like operating system * DEMOS (ISP), the first internet service provider in the USSR * Demos Commander, an Orthodox File Manager for Unix-like systems * Plural for Demo (computer programming) Organizations * Demos (UK think tank), London-based public policy research organisation and publisher * Demos (U.S. think tank), a public policy research and advocacy organization * DEMOS (Republika Srpska), a political party in Republika Srpska * DEMOS (Montenegro), a parliamentary political party in Montenegro * DEMOS (Slovenia), a coalition of democratic political parties in Slovenia * Demos Helsinki, a think tank in Finland * Demos Medical Publishing, a publisher of books on medical subjects * Solidary Democracy, a political party in Italy * Democracy and Solidarity Party, a political party in Romania Arts and entertainment * ''Demos'' (film), a 1921 silent film * ''Demos'' (novel), an 1886 novel by George Gissing Music * '' ...
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Nicholas Confessore
Nicholas Confessore is a Pulitzer Prize-winning political correspondent on the National Desk of ''The New York Times''. Early life Confessore grew up in New York City and attended Hunter College High School. He was a politics major at Princeton University, class of 1998. While at Princeton, he wrote for the weekly student newspaper the '' Nassau Weekly''. Career Confessore was previously an editor at the '' Washington Monthly'' and a staff writer for ''The American Prospect''. He has also written for '' The New York Times Magazine'', '' The Atlantic Monthly'', ''Rolling Stone'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''The Boston Globe ''The Boston Globe,'' also known locally as ''the Globe'', is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes. ''The Boston Globe'' is the oldest and largest daily new ...'', '' Salon.com'', and other publications. At the age of 28, he won the 2003 Livingston Award for natio ...
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Dana Goldstein
Dana Goldstein is an American journalist and the author of ''The Teacher Wars'', published by Doubleday and a ''New York Times'' best seller. She is currently a domestic correspondent at ''The New York Times'' and has worked as a staff writer at The Marshall Project and as an associate editor at The Daily Beast. She received a Bernard L. Schwartz fellowship from the New America Foundation, a Spencer Foundation Fellowship in Education Journalism from Columbia University, and a Puffin Fellowship from The Nation Institute. Her work on politics, education, and women's issues has appeared in national publications including ''The Atlantic'', '' Slate'', ''The New Republic'', and ''Politico''. Goldstein grew up in Ossining, New York. She graduated from Brown University, where she studied European intellectual and cultural history with a focus on gender, in 2006. She lived and worked in Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with ov ...
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Joshua Micah Marshall
Joshua Micah Jesajan-Dorja Marshall (born February 15, 1969) is an American journalist and blogger who founded ''Talking Points Memo.'' A liberal, he presides over a network of progressive-oriented sites that operate under the ''TPM Media'' banner. In 2008, they averaged 400,000 page views on weekdays and 750,000 unique visitors per month. Marshall and his work have been profiled by ''The New York Times'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', the ''Financial Times'', ''National Public Radio'', ''The New York Times Magazine'', the ''Columbia Journalism Review'', ''Bill Moyers Journal'', and '' GQ''. In 2007, Hendrik Hertzberg, a senior editor at ''The New Yorker'', compared Marshall to the influential founders of ''Time'' magazine, saying: "Marshall is in the line of the great light-bulb-over-the-head editors. He's like Briton Hadden or Henry Luce. He's created something new." Early life and career Marshall was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Marshall's father was a professor of marine biol ...
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Chris Mooney (journalist)
Christopher Cole Mooney (born September 20, 1977) is an American journalist and author of four books including '' The Republican War on Science'' (2005). Mooney's writing focuses on subjects such as climate change denialism and creationism in public schools, and he has been described as "one of the few journalists in the country who specialize in the now dangerous intersection of science and politics." In 2020 he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles on global warming published in ''The Washington Post''. Early life and education Mooney was born in Mesa, Arizona, and grew up with two siblings in New Orleans, Louisiana. Both of his parents were college English professors. He attended Isidore Newman School before entering Yale University, where he graduated with a B.A. in English in 1999. His interest in the natural sciences was strongly influenced by his grandfather Gerald A. Cole, a professor at Arizona State University and author of ''Textbook of Limnology'', a ...
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Adam Serwer
Adam Serwer (born 1982) is an American journalist and author. He is a staff writer at ''The Atlantic'' where his work focuses on politics, race, and justice. He previously worked at BuzzFeed News, ''The American Prospect'', and '' Mother Jones''. Serwer has received awards from the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), '' The Root'', and the Society of Professional Journalists''.'' He was named a spring 2019 Shorenstein Center fellow, and received the 2019 Hillman Prize for Opinion & Analysis Journalism. Life and career Serwer was raised in Washington, D.C. His father, Daniel Serwer, was in the Foreign Service, which resulted in Serwer spending part of his childhood overseas. His mother, Jacquelyn Serwer, is the chief curator of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture. His father is of Polish Jewish descent, and his mother is African-American. Serwer received his bachelor's degree from Vassar College and his master ...
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Jamelle Bouie
Jamelle Antoine Bouie (; born April 12, 1987) is an American columnist for ''The New York Times''. He was formerly chief political correspondent for ''Slate''. In 2019, writing in the ''Columbia Journalism Review'', David Uberti called Bouie "one of the defining commentators on politics and race in the Trump era". Early and personal life Bouie was born and raised in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He graduated from Floyd E. Kellam High School in 2005. In 2009, he graduated from the University of Virginia with a bachelor of arts degree in political and social thought and government. While there, he began blogging, which led to interest in a career in journalism. Bouie previously lived and worked in Washington, D.C.; , he is based in Charlottesville, Virginia. Career Bouie was awarded a writing fellowship for ''The American Prospect'' in 2010. He was awarded a Knobler Fellowship at the Nation Institute by ''The Nation'' in 2012. Bouie became a staff writer for ''The Daily Beast' ...
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Matt Yglesias
Matt may refer to: *Matt (name), people with the given name ''Matt'' or Matthew, meaning "gift from God", or the surname Matt *In British English, of a surface: having a non-glossy finish, see gloss (material appearance) *Matt, Switzerland, a municipality *"Matt", the cartoon by Matt Pritchett in the UK ''Telegraph'' newspapers *MATT, gay male erotic artist (born Charles Edward Kerbs) See also * Maat (other) * MAT (other) * Mat (other) * Matte (other) * Matthew (name) Matthew is an English language masculine given name. It ultimately derives from the Hebrew language, Hebrew name "" (''Matityahu'') which means "Gift of God in Judaism, Yahweh". Etymology The Hebrew language, Hebrew name () was transliterated i ... * Mutt (other) {{disambig ...
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Ezra Klein
Ezra Klein (born May 9, 1984) is an American American liberalism, liberal political commentator and journalist. He is currently a ''The New York Times, New York Times'' columnist and the host of ''The Ezra Klein Show'' podcast. He is a co-founder of ''Vox (website), Vox'' and formerly was the website's editor-at-large. He has held editorial positions at ''The Washington Post'' and ''The American Prospect'', and was a regular contributor to Bloomberg L.P., Bloomberg News and MSNBC. His first book, ''Why We're Polarized'', was published by Simon & Schuster in January 2020. Klein rose to prominence as a blogger who became well known for his in-depth analysis on a range of policy issues. By 2007, Klein's blog had gained a substantial following and was acquired by ''The American Prospect'', where he was an associate editor. At ''The Washington Post'', Klein managed Wonkblog, a branded blog that featured his writing on domestic policy. In 2014, alongside fellow journalists Matthew Ygl ...
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