The Prospect’s editors and contributing writers include the nation’s most creative liberal thinkers and activists.

Robert Kuttner, founder, co-editor, and president of The American Prospect, has spent his entire career writing about the interplay between the marketplace and a democratic society. He has been a teacher and author, as well as an editor and syndicated columnist. “A Bob Kuttner column-a-day keeps the conservatives at bay,” Senator Ted Kennedy said when he hosted a party for the magazine. Bob is also the author of six books, most notably Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets (1997), which challenged the claim that markets invariably work more efficiently than governments. He is a co-founder of the Economic Policy Institute and a winner of the United Nations’ Paul Hoffman award for his lifetime of work on markets and social justice.

Robert B. Reich, Prospect chairman and co-founder, is currently a university professor at Brandeis. One of America’s most effective liberal spokesmen, Reich was Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration and fought for such policies as better minimum wage and family leave laws, pension protection, and labor rights. Reich has also taught at Harvard’s JFK School of Government, and in 2002, he ran for governor of Massachusetts. He is the author of eight books, including The Work of Nations (1991), which has been translated into 22 languages. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford.

Paul Starr, founder and co-editor, is author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning book The Social Transformation of American Medicine (1984). The Chicago Tribune called him “health care’s Tom Paine.” In 1993 he served as a senior adviser to the White House on health policy. Starr is also the founder of Moving Ideas, the online public policy consortium run by The American Prospect. He directs the Century Institute, a summer project for college students eager to become engaged in our political and governance process. Starr’s day job is professor of sociology at Princeton. He is the author of The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications (2004).

Michael Tomasky, executive editor, was previously a senior political columnist and contributing editor at New York magazine. He has also worked as an editor and writer at The Village Voice and The New York Observer. He is author of two books, Left for Dead: The Life, Death, and the Possible Resurrection of Progressive Politics in America (1995), and Hillary’s Turn, an account of the New York Senate race of 2000 (2001). He has also published in The New York Review of Books, Harper’s, The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post, and was recently a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard. He is well known to the Prospect readers for his weekly Web column and feature articles in the magazine.

Harold Meyerson, editor at large, has been a contributor to the Prospect since 1995. His articles on U.S. politics, labor, and foreign policy also appear in The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. He is the author of Who Put the Rainbow in the Wizard of Oz (1993), a biography of Broadway lyricist Yip Harburg. From the late ’70s through the mid ’80s, Meyerson was a political consultant for progressive causes and candidates. He hosted the weekly show “Real Politics” on Los Angeles’ leading NPR affiliate and has been a frequent guest on television and radio talk shows. He lives in Washington, and continues as a columnist for the L.A. Weekly, where he served as executive editor from 1989 until 2001.