Harold Meyerson

Published In its more than two centuries of existence, the Democratic Party has, from time to time, demonstrated that it knows how to do politics. This may be one of those moments. As historian Michael Kazin has demonstrated in his party history, What It ... See more

Last week, The New York Times reported that the victories of candidates backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York DSA over candidates (many of them incumbents) backed by the party establishment in the city’s recent Democratic primary had particularly un... See more

Yesterday, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani provided a defining example of real-world democratic socialism by appointing both Anthony Shorris and Lina Khan to jointly head the city’s Economic Development Corporation (EDC). Shorris’s resume includes not just ... See more

The stench arising from the proposed purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery by Paramount isn’t just the concentration of market power by the merged studios nor the likely takeover of CNN by President Trump’s fanboys. It’s also the fact that the purchase is fu... See more

Here are the headlines to four stories that were published last week in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The New York Times: “Wall Street Traders Are Having Their Best Year Ever,” in Wednesday’s Journal “U.S. Stocks Rise Within 0.5% of Th... See more