Harold meyerson biography

Meyerson was born to a Jewish family in Los Angeles.
Educated in Los Angeles public schools and at Columbia University, Meyerson currently resides in Washington, D.C..
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Harold Meyerson

Harold Meyerson is editor-at-large of The American Prospect. Meyerson is also political editor and columnist for the L.A. Weekly, the nation’s largest metropolitan weekly, where he served as executive editor from 1989 through 2001. His articles on politics, labor, the economy, foreign policy, and American culture have also appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Nation, The New Statesman, and in the op-ed, commentary, and book review sections of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times.

He is the author of Who Put The Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz? , a critical biography of Broadway lyricist Yip Harburg, and his articles have been republished in several books, most notably the Brookings Institution’s volume on Bush v. Gore. From 1991 through 1995, Meyerson hosted the weekly show “Real Politics” on radio station KCRW, the Los Angeles area’s leading NPR affiliate. He has been a frequent guest on television and radio talk shows.

Born in Los Angeles, Meyerson w

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Harold Meyerson – Left is Write

Since August of 2002, Harold Meyerson has been Editor-at-Large of The American Prospect, the Washington-based liberal magazine founded by Robert Reich, Robert Kuttner and Paul Starr in 1990. As such, he is one of the magazine’s chief political writers and editors. He joined the Prospect in August 2001 in the more managerial role of Executive Editor.

In March of 2003, Meyerson became a regular Washington Post op-ed columnist. His weekly column usually appears on Wednesdays, and is reprinted in numerous newspapers across the country (and, occasionally, beyond). His is generally viewed as the most liberal voice on the Post op-ed page.

Meyerson was also Columnist-at-Large for the L.A. Weekly, the nation’s largest metropolitan weekly, where he served as executive editor from 1989 through 2001. Over the years, his Weekly column has won numerous awards, and become something of a Los Angeles institution.

His articles on politics, labor, the economy, foreign policy and American culture have also appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republi

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Harold Meyerson

Harold Meyerson is executive editor of the American Prospect as well as a member of the editorial board. From 2003 through 2015, he was a weekly op-ed columnist for The Washington Post. From 1989 to 2001, he was executive editor of the L.A. Weekly. From 1991 to 1995, Meyerson hosted the weekly show “Real Politics” on the public radio station KCRW in Sanata Monica, Calif. He is a frequent guest on television and radio talk shows and has been a regular columnist for The Washington Post since 2003. He is the author of “Who Put The Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz?” (1995), a biography of Broadway lyricist Yip Harburg. In September, 2009 Atlantic Monthly named Meyerson one of 50 Most Influential Columnists. Calling its list “its all-star team,” Atlantic Monthly’s Top 50 are the most influential commentators in the nation – the columnists and bloggers and broadcast pundits who shape the national debates.