David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect, a magazine about ideas, politics, and power. He is the author of Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud (2016), winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize, and Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power (2020). He writes extensively about economics and politics at the Prospect, and was the winner of the 2021 Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The Intercept, The New Republic, HuffPost, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and more. He has been a guest on MSNBC, CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC, NPR, and Pacifica Radio. He lives in Los Angeles.