Harold Meyerson

4 days ago | prospect.org | Harold Meyerson

In March of 1996, while covering the Republican presidential primaries for L.A. Weekly, I spent a week traveling with Pat Buchanan, the right-wing columnist and MAGA progenitor, who was conducting his second part-protest-part-real campaign for his party’s nomination (losing the first, in 1992, to George H.W. Bush and in the process of losing the second to Bob Dole).

1 week ago | prospect.org | Harold Meyerson

Chicago, that somber city, has given the Catholic Church a pope, by way of Peru and Italy. Robert Francis Prevost’s life, like that of his church, has been nothing if not cosmopolitan, crossing borders and continents, spanning hemispheres. The Church, of course, is not only cosmopolitan but parochial as well, hewing to doctrines crafted more than a millennium ago by clerics a good deal less cosmopolitan than the crew that just anointed Prevost.

1 week ago | prospect.org | Harold Meyerson

America has seldom had a president as enamored of the nation’s storied past as Donald Trump is, and never had a president as starkly ignorant of its actual past as Trump is, either. Reopening Alcatraz. Making coal mining great again. Resurrecting our role as a colonial power, so that the only cross-border products we need come from lands we control. And reconstructing the world-class economy we enjoyed when our tariffs were highest, in the 1890s. Where to begin?

1 week ago | prospect.org | Harold Meyerson

David Horowitz died last Tuesday, but his spirit, I grieve to report, lives on. Indeed, it has state power. Any number of public figures have careers that follow a left-to-right, or right-to-left, trajectory. Even among his fellow left-to-rightsters, though, Horowitz stood out. His journey from extreme left to extreme right was so, well, extreme that the through line of his affinity for extremism ultimately overshadows the claims of mere ideology.

2 weeks ago | prospect.org | Harold Meyerson

May Day this year provides an occasion for both workers and anti-Trump and anti-oligarch protesters to take to the streets. But May Day should also be a reminder of what it takes for workers to actually gain a say in their work lives and the pay and security essential to decent living standards: strikes.