Robert Kuttner

Robert Kuttner is founding co-editor of The American Prospect and a senior fellow at the think tank Demos. He is author of eight books, most recently The Squandering of America: how the failure of our politics undermines our prosperity.

He was a columnist for Business Week for twenty years, and continues to contribute columns to the Boston Globe. His other writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and Book Review, The New Yorker, the Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Harvard Business Review, Columbia Journalism Review, and Dissent.

Earlier in his career, he served as a national policy correspondent for The New England Journal of Medicine, economics editor of The New Republic, a national staff writer and later syndicated columnist for The Washington Post, a regular commentator for NPR, and chief investigator of the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.

He was educated at Oberlin College, the University of California–Berkeley, and the London School of Economics. He has taught at Brandeis, Boston University, the University of Massachusetts, and Harvard’s Institute of Politics. He lives in Boston with his wife, Joan Fitzgerald.

Website: http://www.obamaschallenge.org

Books

• Obama's Challenge: America's economic crisis and the power of a transformative presidency (Author)