The Flight Attendant8h ago
David Dayen
The man who hired me at the Prospect, my friend and mentor Bob Kuttner, has a new memoir out, and he has a story up about it on our site today. But the book includes some parts of his life I didn't know: prospect.org/2026/03/31/n...

Notes for Next Time - The Amer...
Notes for Next Time

We may well survive Trump. But without a renewed commitment to broad economic possibility, we risk losing a democracy that serves the people.

The American Prospect
Mar 31 at 11:29pmWeb
Show threadDavid Dayen16h ago
• He was hired by the Washington Post in 1973 to the national desk because they were pissed about being scooped so much on the Metro Desk by those punks Woodward and Bernstein, and they wanted Bob to be their star reporter scooping them. No-win situation!
Show threadDavid Dayen16h ago
• In college he was part of an idealistic international student organization that would later be exposed as a CIA cutout!
Show threadDavid Dayen16h ago
• He was somehow program director at Pacifica's WBAI when a host played the George Carlin bit about the 7 dirty words you can't say on TV, which led to a historic Supreme Court ruling • He worked for IF Stone • He wrote the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act and the Community Reinvestment Act He's Zelig!
Show threadDavid Dayen16h ago
The book's available here. Both a rollicking memoir and a capsule summary of a half-century of American policy. jpzengerbooks.com/2026/03/07/n...

Notes for Next Time: Surviving...
Notes for Next Time: Surviving Tyranny, Redeeming America

Notes for Next TimeSurviving Tyranny, Redeeming AmericaBy Robert KuttnerE-bookKindle – Apple – Barnes & Noble – BookshopPaperbackAmazon – Barnes & Noble – Book…

J. P. Zenger Books