High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Kit Rachlis (born December 27, 1951) is an American journalist and editor who has held top posts at The Village Voice, LA Weekly, Los Angeles Times, and Los Angeles magazine. In April 2011, he became editor of The American Prospect magazine, a leading liberal political monthly based in Washington, D.C. Rachlis is best known as a practitioner of the long-form nonfiction narrative, a literary tradition that has been dubbed "an endangered species" as newspapers and magazines have struggled to adapt to the digital age.