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The American Prospect is a 501(c)(3) non-profit politically oriented magazine founded in 1990 and based in Washington D.C. Originally named the Liberal Prospect, it was co-founded by Robert Kuttner, Paul Starr, and Robert Reich.
The publication entered into an affiliation with Demos, a public policy research center in New York City that lasted two years and ended in 2012. The American Prospect publishes a daily online version and a bi-monthly print version. The publication’s advocates began developing a network of research centers, scholars, and publications in the 1980s during an era of conservative policy in the 1980s. The founders and editors of The American Prospect expressed concern that liberals were lacking strong voices in the media. The new journal devoted expressly to the tasks of reformulating a liberal public philosophy and new directions for public policy.
In 2010, The American Prospect was the recipient of Utne Reader magazine’s Independent Press Award for Political Coverage. Other awards include the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism.
The Prospect reported receiving about 97,000 online users each week in April 2019, a figure that the Prospect claims more than doubled the following year.
The American Prospect can be accessed on X (Twitter), Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, LinkedIn, and a PDF print magazine archive.