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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

After picking the baby up, I’d dawdled at the fag-end of a flea market behind the brand-new football stadium which loomed, vast and shiny as a spaceship, above the tangled heaps of clothes, sad shoes, ...

When Nigel Farage won the Brexit referendum nine years ago, I wrote that he had in effect become leader of the Conservative party. And so it proved as Boris Johnson rammed through a hard Brexit, ...

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 ...

How do you resist the ‘enshittification’ of the internet? This week, Prospect tech columnist Ethan Zuckerman joins Ellen and Alona to talk about artificial intelligence, social media and the state of ...

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 ...

I wasn’t the only one who noticed. All the gaming magazines—and there were a lot of those then, too—lauded the AI of Half-Life’s soldiers.“It’s surprising how entertaining well-implemented artificial ...

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 ...

After that, I couldn’t get enough of his singing: in opera (an unlikely but thrilling Iago in Verdi’s Otello for example; a devastating Wozzeck); in concert works (the original baritone for Britten’s ...