Harold Meyerson

This week, The Wall Street Journal reported that the decision to block Ukraine from the high-speed Starlink satellite alerts that enabled it to intercept Russian missiles and drones was made by SpaceX owner Elon Musk, either in conjunction with President ... See more

A headline on a piece that ran in today's New York Times Science section—'When a Gun Owner Shows Early Signs of Dementia'—struck me as a statement of a problem writ small that we all now must encounter daily in its writ large version: When a president of ... See more

Donald Trump first came to Americans' attention more than 20 years ago for gleefully firing all manner of people on his show The Apprentice . Today, even as every poll indicates that if there's one person Americans most want fired, it's Trump himself, Tru... See more

One of the most prominent shibboleths in the media's assessment of what ails America is that both parties have become too extreme. We are polarized, we've read time and again, because the Democrats and Republicans are equally culpable of hewing to ideolog... See more

Over the past four years, the United Auto Workers—once the most influential and progressive union on the planet—has shown clear signs of reviving some of its past glory and moxie. In recent decades, the union's once-stellar record had been tarnished by th... See more