The American Prospect

The American Prospect

The American Prospect, cover dated February 1, 2006
Editor	Robert Kuttner and Paul Starr
Categories	U.S. politics and public policy
Frequency	Quarterly
Total circulation (December 2012)	37,398
Year founded	1990
Company	The American Prospect, Inc.
Country	United States
Based in	Washington, D.C.
Language	American English
Website	www.prospect.org
ISSN	1049-7285

The American Prospect is a quarterly American political magazine dedicated to American liberalism and progressivism. Based in Washington, D.C., The American Prospect says it aims "to advance liberal and progressive goals through reporting, analysis, and debate about today’s realities and tomorrow’s possibilities."

The magazine was founded in 1990 (and initially called The Liberal Prospect) by Robert Kuttner, Robert Reich, and Paul Starr as a response to the perceived ascendancy of conservatism in the 1980s.

The American Prospect has run a writing fellows program that offers young journalists the opportunity to spend two years at the magazine, blogging as well as contributing to the print magazine. Past fellows have included Matt Yglesias,Ezra Klein,Chris Mooney, Joshua Marshall, Dana Goldstein, and Kate Sheppard. Former staff writers and contributors include Gabriel Arana, Steve Erickson, and Harold Meyerson.

In March 2010, The American Prospect entered into an affiliation with the Demos, a public policy research and advocacy center based in New York City. The official affiliation ended in 2012.

In 2010, The American Prospect was the recipient of Utne Reader magazine's Utne Independent Press Award for Political Coverage.

In 2012, the magazine nearly folded due to financial struggles. It was able to raise enough money to stay afloat.

In 2014, the magazine re-purposed itself as a "quarterly journal of ideas." Kit Rachlis announced he was leaving the editorship of the magazine, senior writer Monica Potts and editor Bob Moser were laid off, and several other editorial staffers left the publication.