How the Arab world turned against Hezbollah
Once revered in the Middle East as a defiant force against Israel, the actions of the "Party of God" in Syria have caused many to change their minds
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The twisty tale of Dr Tegnell
The rockstar epidemiologist is leading Sweden through a great Covid experiment. Six months in, is it paying off?
Trump falls victim to the virus: cue snark, schadenfreude—and conspiracy
And all the while, the election clock ticks down
The new American civil war
Two tribes, Trump and the State of an imperilled Union
The EU and Switzerland are on a collision course despite the free movement vote
A recent referendum result was heralded as a great confidence boost for the European Union. But beneath the surface all is not well between Switzerland and the giant on its doorstep
The power and courage of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Pioneering Supreme Court justice championed the cause of equality
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s appeal to the intelligence of a future day
The great judge was not the one-dimensional radical of the popular imagination. Her jurisprudence was cumulative, evolutionary—and immensely persuasive
The chalice of American democracy—a response to Dahlia Lithwick
We still have hope for the future of the great American experiment
The world's top 50 thinkers 2020: the winner
The votes have been counted and the results are in. Our top 10 is full of practical-minded thinkers for the Covid-19 age—and the victor is the most practical of them all
How the west lost
After the long stand-off against communism, victory seemed as total as it was sudden. But the west has since fractured and is now losing prestige and influence—does the reversal expose a moral defeat?
What if Trump refuses to lose?
Don't imagine that America's creaking electoral machinery will facilitate an orderly transfer of power
George Soros on Europe's fragility and how democracy is under threat
George Soros tells Prospect why democracy is more vulnerable in Europe than the US, and why he fears the EU lacks the resources to fight both Covid-19 and climate change
Big Brother vs China’s Uighurs
Constant surveillance, cultural suppression and ‘re-education’ are the day-to-day reality for China’s Muslim minorities. And the technology giants that enable it are closer than we might think
How democracies die: the case of Hungary
Viktor Orbán is extinguishing liberty one freedom at a time
Behind the causes of the coup in Mali—and what happens next
On top of potential election fraud and crackdowns by security forces, the former government had bungled its response to ethnic-religious violence
Beirut’s clean-up operation exposes Lebanon's wider state dysfunction
Instead of clearing up the Lebanese state is cracking down
A fond farewell to the European Health Insurance Card
Peace of mind in plastic form, you were there when my accident-prone family needed you
How George Floyd’s killing is shaping Middle Eastern protest
Activists are using the iconography of the “American martyr” to fight their own political battles
Germany still hopes that China will “change through trade.” It will not
“Wandel durch Handel” must make way for a new strategy. But what kind?
Trump's brain: would this righteously conservative attorney general sabotage the election to win his boss a second term?
The playboy president brought a clever and cultured conservative lawyer into his tent. Is William Barr now ready to bend any rule to help Trump keep the White House?