Twelve months ago, we published our shortlist of Top Thinkers for 2024—and you, Prospect readers, chose well. You picked Daron Acemoglu as the winner, and in October he received a second accolade: the ...

While Rachel Reeves was flashing multi-billion cheques around in the House of Commons this week, voters about 100 miles away in the Severn ward of Stroud were voting in a council byelection, held—most ...

Welcome to this week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a basis of a discussion about law and policy.This week’s legal text is the 36 page order of the US ...

The targeting of NewsClick—a progressive, medium-sized digital media venture based in New Delhi—marks a new low for press freedom in my country, which has been caught up in a decade-long trend of ...

Prospect has a history of producing in-depth policy analysis on topics ranging from climate change to skills, housing to the ...

I’m sitting at my desk looking at Procter and Frere’s A New History of the Book of Common Prayer, and thinking of our ...

The best way to attract attention in the crowded space of technology is to make bold claims. AI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, director of the AI Futures Project, a research group based in California, ...

Tanenhaus’s subtitle—The Life and the Revolution That Changed America—may sound hyperbolic, but very few who don’t directly become leaders can claim to have redirected their country in the way that ...

The obvious answer to “why” this is happening is “climate change”. But the cause of this lurching from flood to drought and back again is a hugely important climate statistic that most people have ...

Tech leaders and industry insiders are giddy with excitement about the advances under way in artificial intelligence, whether due to the scaling up of existing models and functionalities, new ...

Military strategists, as Lawrence Freedman describes, warn of the dangers of falling into the “short war” fallacy where “all is supposed to be decided in the first days, or even hours, of combat”.For, ...

In this week’s Q&A, Alan and Lionel look back over their journalistic careers and recall their toughest decisions. The former editors also discuss why they left the Guardian and the FT when they did, ...