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Democracy is in a doom spiral—but it isn’t dead yet
The far right thrived in 2024, and the erosion of liberal democracy is the  story of the century so far. It didn’t have to be this way
Cas Mudde
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Intellectuals and Ideas
Saving the west, one polemic at a time
James Bloodworth
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World’s Top Thinker
25 thinkers for an uncertain world
Prospect Team
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Culture
Prospect’s books of the year 2024: Politics & Reportage
Peter Hoskin
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Housing
Want to imagine the city of the future? Try Milton Keynes
Deyan Sudjic
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Politics
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Housing
Labour’s housing conundrum
Labour has promised to deliver a housing revolution by tearing up planning laws. That won’t be enough
Tom Clark
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Civil Service
The government needs help seeing the bigger picture
Sam Freedman
From the magazine
People
Palestinian-Israeli politician Ayman Odeh: ‘You can’t beat the right without us’
Alona Ferber
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Government
Breaking central government’s grip
Polly Curtis
US election 2024
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US election 2024
The world won’t forgive the US for electing Trump
Over 70m Americans will likely vote for the former president in November. Even if he loses, it will take a lot to heal the country
Henry Porter
Climate
Democrats are letting Trump’s climate lies take hold
Genevieve Guenther
United States
Could the Supreme Court put Trump back in the White House?
Bill Keller
United States
Harris is running out of time
Jill Abramson
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Cas Mudde assesses the health of democracy and James Bloodworth explains the rise of polemicist Douglas Murray. In Ukraine, Jen Stout reports on the symbolism of Europe’s first skyscraper, while we present the shortlist of 25 Top Thinkers for 2025

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Democracy is in a doom spiral—but it isn’t dead yet

The far right thrived in 2024, and the erosion of liberal democracy is the  story of the century so far. It didn’t have to be this way

Cas Mudde
Saving the west, one polemic at a time
James Bloodworth
25 thinkers for an uncertain world
Prospect Team
Concrete resistance: how one building symbolises Kharkiv’s defiance
Jen Stout
Want to imagine the city of the future? Try Milton Keynes
Deyan Sudjic
Prospect’s books of the year 2024: Politics & Reportage
Peter Hoskin
A mother’s work
Rachel Johnson
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Our true slaving history
David Leigh
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Why it’s time for the ultra-rich to abandon luxury—and their private jets—to save the world
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Will ICC prosecutions bring Netanyahu to justice?
Conor Gearty
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The individuals who change the course of humanity
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How cricket is changing children‘s lives in Lebanon
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In times of peril, friends are there to send memes
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I’m a boring gen Z—so I tried sober October
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THE INSIDER
Will Starmer’s relaunch work?
Andrew Adonis
CULTURE
Badwill to some men
Imogen West-Knights
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CULTURE
Oh, yes it is!
Kate Maltby
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CULTURE
William Kentridge’s ship of fools
Fiammetta Rocco
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CULTURE
Lines of beauty
Lucy Scholes
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CULTURE
Mystery writer
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
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CULTURE
How the Royal Society of Literature lost the plot
Patrick Marnham
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HOUSING
Labour’s housing conundrum
Tom Clark
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LIVES
The individuals who change the course of humanity
Sheila Hancock
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HOUSING
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Deyan Sudjic
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North America
Can one woman beat Mexico’s cartels?
Claudia Sheinbaum, the country's first female president, inherits an intractable war between drug lords and the government
Deborah Bonello
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United States
How to break the Maga spell
Sasha Mudd
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Ukraine
Concrete resistance: how one building symbolises Kharkiv’s defiance
Jen Stout
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The Insider
Can Friedrich Merz change Germany’s course?
Andrew Adonis
Podcasts
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Culture
Prospect’s books of the year 2024: Ideas
From the importance of games to the bounds of knowledge itself
Peter Hoskin
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Culture
Mystery writer
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
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Culture
Tolkien the timekeeper
Henry Oliver
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Culture
The next thing
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Ideas
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Intellectuals and Ideas
Saving the west, one polemic at a time
Over many years, Douglas Murray has built a huge following as a darling of the global illiberal right. His intellectual journey is a reproachful mirror for our times
James Bloodworth
From the magazine
British History
Our true slaving history
David Leigh
From the magazine
Culture
How the Royal Society of Literature lost the plot
Patrick Marnham
From the magazine
Ideas
Unicorns and dinosaurs are everywhere!
Priya Khanchandani
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Views
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A good death
What makes a good death?
Both sides of the assisted dying debate can produce competing horror stories. But we need to think rationally about how to cause the least harm
Mark Mardell
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United States
Paula Byrne’s diary: a Manhattan transfer
Paula Byrne
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People
Esther Rantzen: ‘I’m not seeking to shorten my life, only my death’
Emily Lawford
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US election 2024
Polls are out, listening is in
Ethan Zuckerman
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