History
The magazine was founded in 1990 by Robert Kuttner, Robert Reich, and Paul Starr as a response to the perceived ascendancy of conservatism in the 1980s. It currently enjoys a monthly readership of 100,000 and an online readership of nearly 1 million.
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. The current fellows are Patrick Caldwell and Jamelle Bouie; past fellows have included Adam Serwer, Tim Fernholz, Matt Yglesias, Ezra Klein, Chris Mooney, Joshua Marshall, Dana Goldstein, and Kate Sheppard.
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.
In 2010, The American Prospect was the recipient of Utne Reader magazine's Utne Independent Press Award for Political Coverage.
Kit Rachlis has served since 2011 as the magazine's editor-in-chief. Kuttner and Starr share the title of co-editor.
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