Harold Meyerson

Washington, D.C.

Executive Editor at The American Prospect

I've been an editor of The American Prospect -- currently editor at large -- since 2001.

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Articles

Trump Has Found a Way to Exacerbate the Housing Shortage

1 week ago | prospect.org | Harold Meyerson

Housing starts hit a five-year low last month. What better time to deport thousands of construction workers! Data released by the Census Bureau yesterday shows that there were fewer housing starts in May than in any month since the 2020 pandemic. Despite a housing shortage that has led to record levels of housing unaffordability, a host of factors are reducing supply even more.
The Real Democratic Civil War

1 week ago | portside.org | Harold Meyerson

The Real Democratic Civil War Published June 17, 2025 No American ever did more to create an abundant economy that benefited the working class, or more to regulate the economy in ways that constrained capital and benefited the working class, than Franklin Roosevelt. So, forgive me if I think that the real divisions within today’s Democratic Party aren’t fundamentally those separating the “abundance” crowd and the pro-regulatory crowd.
Looking Latino Is Grounds for Deportation … in Blue States

1 week ago | prospect.org | Harold Meyerson

Donald Trump projects two diametrically opposed identities. The one he intentionally projects is that of the strong leader—the glowering defender of an older, sterner America, the advocate of violence against enemies (both real and imagined), the leader of armed forces and the MMA fanboy.
The Real Democratic Civil War

1 week ago | prospect.org | Harold Meyerson

No American ever did more to create an abundant economy that benefited the working class, or more to regulate the economy in ways that constrained capital and benefited the working class, than Franklin Roosevelt. So, forgive me if I think that the real divisions within today’s Democratic Party aren’t fundamentally those separating the “abundance” crowd and the pro-regulatory crowd.
No Kings. No Redcoats. No Occupying Armies.

2 weeks ago | prospect.org | Harold Meyerson

Initially, and quite properly, Saturday’s upcoming nationwide demonstrations were focused, loosely, on Donald Trump’s assumption of neo-royal powers: Seizing Congress’s authority to fund and defund, establish and disestablish departments and agencies; threatening judges who rule that he’s violating the Constitution; ignoring people’s constitutional right to habeas corpus, that sort of thing.
It’s Grade-School Graduation Week in L.A. Send in the Marines!

2 weeks ago | prospect.org | Harold Meyerson

“He who defends everything defends nothing,” said Frederick the Great, the 18th-century Prussian monarch and military sage. Even when you have a long border to defend against your enemies, you still must concentrate your forces in sufficient numbers to effectively repel them. Donald the Tin Pot claims he has the immense city of Los Angeles to which he must deploy troops, while, in fact, the protests are confined to eight or ten city blocks in a county stretching 4,058 square miles.
Trump is provoking LA to fire up his base

2 weeks ago | straitstimes.com | Harold Meyerson

History sometimes needs a push. In sending his immigration police to disrupt Los Angeles, US President Donald Trump recognises this. He can now use the predictable backlash to seize more power. Mr Trump’s administration already stands out historically for aggregating powers to itself that the US Constitution explicitly vests in Congress.
Trump is provoking LA to fire up his base

2 weeks ago | ft.com | Harold Meyerson

The writer is editor at large of The American Prospect and the former executive editor of LA WeeklyHistory sometimes needs a push.
ICE: Crossing State Lines to Incite Riots

2 weeks ago | prospect.org | Harold Meyerson

Let’s be clear about who, exactly, the agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have been arresting in and around Los Angeles. On Friday, they raided downtown L.A.’s fashion district, where seamstresses and retail clerks, some of them undocumented immigrants, are clustered. On Saturday, they made arrests outside a Home Depot in Paramount, a working-class L.A. suburb where day laborers, some of them undocumented immigrants, assemble daily to get work on small-scale construction projects.
Polling Conundrums: Activist Government, Sí; Democrats, No!

3 weeks ago | portside.org | Harold Meyerson

Polling Conundrums: Activist Government, Sí; Democrats, No! Published June 5, 2025 There’s good news for liberal economics today, as well as bad news for Democratic Party economics, and all-around confusion about the public’s take on economics. The good news comes from some polling analysis released today by the Center for American Progress (CAP). The bad news, along with a smidgen of good, comes from a new poll conducted for CNN.