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Syria’s next chapter
Celebrations of liberation are fading and sectarian violence has returned. Can Syrians avoid vengeance?
Khaled Mansour
Media Confidential
Q&A: Has journalism become a commodity?
Labour Party
Sticking plaster politics and the sticky realities of the housing crisis
Tom Clark
Free Speech
Trump and Vance have revealed their hypocrisy when it comes to free speech
Alan Rusbridger
The weekly constitutional
What if… Canada wanted to join the European Union?
DAT Green
Politics
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Poverty
Social security is not a burden—it’s a force for good
Instead of old-fashioned rhetoric about costs to the state, the government could tell a better story about welfare
Ruth Patrick
Media
No fact-checking means no free speech
Peter Williams
United States
Trump is a modern Nero
Andrew Adonis
A good death
Assisted dying: scrapping of the High Court judge divides MPs
Mark Mardell
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Randall Kennedy writes of America’s self-destruction, Michael Ignatieff predicts a new world order and voices from illiberal states reflect on resisting autocrats. Plus, we examine British defence and the future of the media.

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Trump may bring about America’s destruction

Donald Trump and his cronies are smashing up democratic norms, government institutions and the postwar international order. There are no signs yet that anyone will stop them

Randall Kennedy
As America retreats, Europe must step up
Michael Ignatieff
AI is the media’s chance to reinvent itself
David Caswell, Mary Fitzgerald
Britain’s aircraft carriers: a national embarrassment?
Stuart McGurk
Han Kang versus the Korean establishment
Fiammetta Rocco
My therapist is retiring—how am I supposed to cope?
Sarah Collins
Katherine Ryan: I’m the antithesis of Margaret Thatcher
Graeme Green
Popular stories
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Donald Trump is surely not a Russian asset. But how else to explain his behaviour?
Alan Rusbridger
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Richard Osman: ‘Maybe I’ll do a terribly ambitious and disappointing literary novel’
Graeme Green
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My best clients are married men
Tilly Lawless
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Trump, meet Ben Folds
Laura Barton
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Trump may bring about America’s destruction
Randall Kennedy
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Sex life: In defence of Anora
Tilly Lawless
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More women leaders would solve our autocracy problem
Sheila Hancock From the magazine
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I loved dancing barefoot around a cauldron with my neighbours
Kiran Sidhu From the magazine
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I must be the only person in the world trying to spend more time on TikTok
Alice Garnett From the magazine
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My therapist is retiring—how am I supposed to cope?
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LABOUR PARTY
Sticking plaster politics and the sticky realities of the housing crisis
Tom Clark
SYRIA
Syria’s next chapter
Khaled Mansour
FREE SPEECH
Trump and Vance have revealed their hypocrisy when it comes to free speech
Alan Rusbridger
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONAL
What if… Canada wanted to join the European Union?
DAT Green
LIVES
Sex life: In defence of Anora
Tilly Lawless
CULTURE
The book publisher prepping for Trump censorship
Imaan Irfan
LANGUAGE
Chronically single? Sologamy could be the answer
Sarah Ogilvie
UNITED STATES
Trump is a modern Nero
Andrew Adonis
POVERTY
Social security is not a burden—it’s a force for good
Ruth Patrick
PEOPLE
Richard Osman: ‘Maybe I’ll do a terribly ambitious and disappointing literary novel’
Graeme Green
World
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France
Trump’s turn against Europe is Macron’s opportunity
The French president wants to lead not just his country but the entire EU
Olly Haynes
Democracy
Argentina reminds us that technofascism is a fraud
Luciana Peker
Democracy
Where humour meets Israeli authoritarianism
Eran Nissan
Democracy
Orbán’s populism relies on a make-believe war that can’t be won
Gergely Romsics
Podcasts
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MARCH 17, 2025
Q&A: Has journalism become a commodity?
MARCH 14, 2025
Prospect Lives: My best sex work clients are married men
MARCH 13, 2025
Ash Sarkar: ‘Media is politics by other means’
MARCH 12, 2025
Donald Trump and the new world order
MARCH 11, 2025
Q&A: What’s the difference between dead cats and real cats?
MARCH 06, 2025
Prospect Lives: Stop telling me to ‘take it easy’ at 91!
MARCH 06, 2025
How do you solve a problem like gen Z?
MARCH 05, 2025
Keon West: Science, racism and alternative facts
MARCH 03, 2025
Q&A: Do echo chambers actually exist?
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
The Murdoch monarchy: Who will take the crown?
Culture
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Culture
The book publisher prepping for Trump censorship
Indie publisher Melville House is racing to preserve history, before the US government buries the evidence
Imaan Irfan
Culture
Severance and the art of the mystery reveal
Imogen West-Knights
Culture
‘The Leopard’ is beautifully complicated
Maria Viola Albano
Culture
England’s national poet?
Jeremy Noel-Tod
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Ideas
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Media
AI is the media’s chance to reinvent itself
Artificial intelligence threatens today’s news industry—and with it, our shared reality. But it could also radically transform journalism for the better
David Caswell, Mary Fitzgerald
From the magazine
Media
Irrelevant and unloved: how the press lost its touch
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
From the magazine
Politics
Maurice Glasman and the origins of Blue Labour
Philip Collins
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Climate
Eliane Brum: hope won’t save us from climate change. We should be fighting for life
Ellen Halliday
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Views
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Language
Chronically single? Sologamy could be the answer
Ever since Carrie Bradshaw married herself in ‘Sex and the City’, sologamy has garnered a long list of devotees. But self-love doesn’t always end in marital bliss
Sarah Ogilvie
People
Richard Osman: ‘Maybe I’ll do a terribly ambitious and disappointing literary novel’
Graeme Green
Brief Encounter
Ash Sarkar: ‘The entire establishment colluded to take Corbyn’s head off’
Prospect Team
From the magazine
Westminster
Rupa Huq’s diary: Bangladesh’s revolution, and why I voted against assisted dying
Rupa Huq
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Can the Online Safety Act live up to expectations?
At a recent roundtable event, policymakers and experts discussed what the legislation means for digital safety
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Public Health gets personal: The case for an AI-driven personalised prevention platform
Samantha Field
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Announcing the winner of the Bennett Public Policy Prize 2024
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To grow the north, first we must connect the north
Jon Bernstein
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Tackling child poverty – Learning from the past, shaping the future
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The Future of the North Sea and the UK Energy Transition
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Book launch: We Should Be So Lucky
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Born to Rule: Live Q&A with Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman
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Lionel Barber in conversation with Peter Hoskin
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Sam Freedman: In Conversation
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Watch | Healthcare in a modern age: why we need a National Health Bank with Dame Sally Davies
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