The American Prospect is a magazine of liberal ideas, committed to a just society, an enriched democracy, and effective liberal politics.

Through dogged reporting, cool analysis, witty commentary and passionate argument, the Prospect strives to beat back the right wing and to build a majority of true patriots who understand what really makes America great. The Prospect's articles generate debate, further ideas, and set agendas. It is a magazine of public ideas, firmly committed -- however unfashionably -- to public improvement.