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Harold Meyerson (born 1950) is an American journalist, opinion columnist and socialist. In 2009 The Atlantic Monthly named him one of "the most influential commentators in the nation" as part of their list "The Atlantic 50."
He is the author of Who Put The Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz?, a biography of Broadway lyricist Yip Harburg, and his articles have been republished in several books, most notably the Brookings Institution's volume on Bush v. Gore. From 1991 through 1995, Meyerson hosted the weekly show "Real Politics" on the NPR station KCRW in Los Angeles. He has been a frequent guest on television and radio talk shows, including "The Four O'Clock Report" with Jon Wiener on KPFK in Los Angeles.
An avowed democratic socialist—according to Meyerson one of only "two" that he encounters during "daily rounds through the nation's capital", the other being Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont—he was an honorary vice-chair of the National Political Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America, until such positions were abolished in 2017. Like Sanders, Meyerson thinks the US would benefit from adopting Scandinavian social capitalist policies.
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