Skip to main content
Liam Kerr on Muck Rack

Liam Kerr

Boston
As seen in: CNN, Medium, MSN, MSN Canada, MSN UK, Daily Mail, Scottish Daily Mail, The Sun, The Telegraph, Yahoo News Malaysia and
co-founder @theWelcomeTeam and member, The Rest is History Club

Get in touch with Liam

Contact Liam, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Liam Kerr’s Biography

Read Full Bio →

First job: covering high school sports under a pseudonym for the Needham Times

Current job: advocacy

Favorite themes: how to structure public opposition to interest group power, why powerful people who are good at one thing may be bad at other things, how weakened parties disproportionately empower extremes

Favorite issues: education policy, Olympics, future of the Democratic Party

Liam Kerr’s Journalist Portfolio

See all →
Column: Continued effort needed to improve Salem's schools

Column: Continued effort needed to improve Salem's schools

The education challenges that Salem is overcoming with grants won from the federal government and partnership…

View article →
Holding DeVos accountable

Holding DeVos accountable

Katherine Clark is doing the important work of holding Secretary DeVos accountable for her reckless approach …

View article →
A Kid In Trump's America

A Kid In Trump's America

Think this is a perfect opportunity, as election day nears, to emphasize just how disastrous a Trump presiden…

View article →
ViewPoint: Business-heavy charter school boards should be copied, not maligned - Boston Business ...

ViewPoint: Business-heavy charter school boards should be copied, not maligned - Boston Business ...

As the debate on expanding public charter schools heats up, the role of local business leaders has taken a pr…

View article →
Deval Patrick's education legacy

Deval Patrick's education legacy

Deval Patrick's education legacy marked by bold reforms that continue to be felt around Massachusetts years a…

View article →
No reason to abandon MCAS testing

No reason to abandon MCAS testing

The recent legislative hearing on proposals to jettison assessment tests underscores the need to return the D…

View article →

Articles

A Journal of Ideas

|
By Liam Kerr, Lenny Mendonca
| Democracy Journal Verified
No one hates a bad teacher more than a good teacher,” Arne Duncan remarked in 2009. No one talks as bluntly about K-12 education as President Barack Obama’s Education Secretary once did. The next President should make a clear, unambiguous statement about all students receiving public funding: No student will go to fourth grade until they can read. Duncan’s rhetoric was part of a larger, urgent dialogue that marked national policy ambitions from when President George W.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

A Journal of Ideas

|
By Alex Jacquez, Liam Kerr
| Democracy Journal Verified
The health care system in the United States is in crisis. Drastic cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act threaten the coverage of around 15 million Americans, while households face skyrocketing premiums. As the population ages, consumption of health care is projected to rise significantly. In 2025, nearly all jobs created were in the health care sector. But even these additions are nowhere near enough to keep up with demand.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

The Four Types of Democratic Primary Voters

|
By Liam Kerr
| welcomestack.org
What is your mental model for Democratic primary voters? This is top of mind for us - midterm primary season just kicked off and runs into September - and is clearly top of mind for many ahead of the 2028 presidential primary. There has been a flurry of research and opinion on this question in recent weeks. So we put together this typology based on two key axes: ideology (from left to center) and prioritization (from issue purity to winning).
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 102 licensed articles (138 Total)

Interview

See all →

How is social media changing news?

Giving too much attention to non-representative people

Who do you wish followed you?

Bob Ryan

Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?

No, but I wrote for the local town newspaper under a pseudonym (they didn't want people to know I was in HS) as a stringer