Harold Meyerson
Journalist, Author
1950 –
Who is Harold Meyerson?
Harold Meyerson is a American journalist and opinion columnist. In 2009 The Atlantic Monthly named him one of "the most influential commentators in the nation" as part of their list "The Atlantic 50."
Born in Los Angeles, Meyerson was educated in the Los Angeles public schools and at Columbia University. The son of long time leaders in California of the Socialist Party of America, he was active in the 1970s in the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee.
Meyerson is editor-at-large of The American Prospect and has been a weekly columnist for the Washington Post since 2003. He served as executive editor of the L.A. Weekly from 1989 through 2001, and continues to write about California politics in the Los Angeles Times. 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, and New Statesman.
He is the author of Who Put The Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz?, a 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.
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- Born
- 1950
Los Angeles - Also known as
- Harold Meyerson.
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Columbia University
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on July 23, 2013
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