Robert Kuttner
American journalist
Robert L. Kuttner (; born April 17, 1943) is an American journalist, university professor and writer whose works present a liberal and progressive point of view. Kuttner is the co-founder and current co-editor of The American Prospect, which was created in 1990 as an "authoritative magazine of liberal ideas," according to its mission statement. He was a columnist for Business Week and The Boston Globe for 20 years.
In 1986, Kuttner co-founded the Economic Policy Institute and currently serves on its executive committee. Between 2007 and 2014, Kuttner was a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos, a liberal research and policy center.
Early life and education
Kuttner was born in New York City. He attended Oberlin College, the University of California, Berkeley, and the London School of Economics. He currently holds the Meyer and Ida Kirstein Chair at Brandeis University as a professor of social policy. He previously taught at Boston University, University of Oregon, University of Massachusetts Boston, and Harvard's Institute of Politics. He has also been a John F. Kennedy Fellow at Harvard University, a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at UC-Berkeley, a Guggenheim Fellow, a Wayne Morse Fellow, a German Marshall Fund Fellow, and a Radcliffe Public Policy Fellow.
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