March 2017 issue
The new normal: What Trump in the White House means for the US economy, freedom of speech and the rest of the world. Also: Anne Perkins on the real Theresa May
Past issues
Essays
Francois Hollande honours AMartya Sen with the Legion d'Honneur in New Delhi in 2013 ©Swarup/Rex/Shutterstock
Amartya Sen keeps his cool
Sameer Rahim
How to fix the NHS
Anita Charlesworth and The Health Foundation Team
©Archimboldus, Doublebubble Rex/Shutterstock
Brexit—take back control
Jolyon Maugham
March for Women's Lives rally in Washington in 1992, held as a response to the then-pending US Supreme Court case Planned Parenthood vs Casey ©MARK REINSTEIN/CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGES
The right to abortion: War of attrition
Dahlia Lithwick
Roger Penrose and the vision thing
Philip Ball
Playing in the shadows: Donald Trump has a strained relationship with the US security agencies ©Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Spooked: Trump's war against US intelligence
Jay Elwes
Brought to heel: Theresa May's flamboyant sense of style contrasts with the rest of her character ©Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
Theresa May: the stealth Prime Minister
Anne Perkins
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Trump and the media: shooting the messengers
Sam Tanenhaus
Sad! Trump's thoughts on trade are clear ©Win McNamee/Getty Images/Illustration by Chris Tilbury
Trumpeting a global trade war
George Magnus
US President Donald Trump ©Jim LoScalzo/DPA/PA Images
How to impeach Donald Trump
Ursula Hackett
©De Malglaive Etienne/ABACA/PA Images
The UK's secret trials
Andrew Tyrie
Regulars
Foreword: March 2017—From post-truth to post-freedom
Tom Clark
If I ruled the world: Harriet Harman
Harriet Harman
The Duel: Is the government's city devolution agenda really a cover for cuts?
Margaret Hodge & Simon Jenkins
"We cling to a phrase with undertones of Churchillian nostalgia" ©Wikimedia Commons
The way we were: The special relationship
Ian Irvine
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Brief encounter: Steven Pinker
Prospect Team
Prospect recommends: The best classical music this month
Alexandra Coghlan
Speed data: A world going grey
Duncan Weldon
Glags I. Colour screen print by Jasper Johns, 1973
Prospect recommends: The best art this month
Emma Crichton-Miller
Prospect recommends: The best films this month
Francine Stock
Prospect recommends: the best theatre this month
Michael Coveney
©ROH, 2016
Prospect recommends: The best opera this month
Neil Norman
©4x-Image
Prospect recommends: The best science exhibitions this month
Anjana Ahuja
Opinions
How Britain can still count after it quits
Malcolm Rifkind
View from China: Reader's block in Beijing
Yuan Ren
Brexit is already hitting Britain in the brains
James Randerson
Nigel Farage in the lobby of Trump Tower, New York ©Pool/ABACA/ABACA/PA Images
Posturing behind "the people"
Nick Cohen
Heart on the left, when it's not on the right—Emmanuel Macron ©Bony/Sipa/Rex/Shutterstock
Emmanuel Macron: candidate for a country at a crossroads
Christine Ockrent
Keir Hardie knew trade could kill jobs—but demanded social reform, not protection ©Hulton-Deutsche Collection/Corbis via Getty Images
Labour: By-election jitters reflect a deeper loss of the party's historic plot
Kate Allen
©CNP/SIPA USA/PA Images
Trump travel ban: I am now stuck in limbo
Ismail Einashe
Arts & Books
Sorry, I don’t feel your pain—the dangers of empathy
David Edmonds
Books in brief: Eat Me by Bill Schutt
Chris Tilbury
Dance of the intellect: Anthony Burgess ©Michel Setboun/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
Anthony Burgess at 100: unearthly powers
Kevin Jackson
Dance of the intellect: Anthony Burgess ©Michel Setboun/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
Anthony Burgess at 100: unearthly powers
Kevin Jackson
Books in brief: The Power of Meaning by Emily Esfahan Smith
Naomi Goulder
Books in brief—Man of Iron: Thomas Telford by Julian Glover
Ben Wilson
Books in brief: The Golden Legend
Tanjil Rashid
At the heart of government: Gus O'Donnell (wearing a jacket) was at David Cameron's side as Cabinet Secretary ©Tom Pilston WPA Pool/Getty Images
Cabinet secretaries—minuting the frenzy
Sue Cameron
Books in brief: The Paula Principle by Tom Schuller
Jessica Abrahams
Books in brief—Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities by Buttony Hughes
Alev Scott
Back in the day: Jarobi White, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Q-Tip and Phife Dawg ©Aristos Marcopoulos via Epic Records
Why did rap music change?
Alex Dean
Book in brief: Europe's Last Chance by Guy Verhofstadt
Uta Staiger
Books in brief: Dirty Secrets by Richard Murphy
Simon Bowers
Society and Culture
DIY investor: Cashing in on defined benefit
Andy Davis
Wine: Delights of the Douro
Barry Smith
Matters of taste: Cream of the crop
Wendell Steavenson
Life of the mind: The talking cure
Anna Blundy
©Isabel Infantes/EMPICS Entertainment
Leith on language: Rebooting liberalism
Sam Leith
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