This is sadly the last of my regular politics columns for Prospect before moving on. This is always a good opportunity for self-reflection, so I spent a few hours reading through the 30 pieces I’ve ...

Has the United States become an autocracy? As Donald Trump marks his 100th day in office, Ellen and Alona are joined by Ruth Ben-Ghiat, scholar of authoritarianism and author of Strongmen: from ...

Like many American academics living abroad, I regularly travel between the United States and my adopted home country—for conferences, holidays, and family visits. Until now, I have never been the ...

Like a lot of middle-aged people, I am on Facebook not so much because I want to be, but because it feels essential to keep up with the minutiae of daily life in my circle of friends and family.

On his 100th day in office, Donald Trump propelled Mark Carney to power. Trump has created a national emergency in Canada with his huge tariffs, intensified by fears that his “51st state” belligerence ...

On 16th April the UK Supreme Court ruled that, for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010, the term “sex” (and the terms “man” or “woman”) should be understood to refer solely to “biological sex”. That ...

In his Nobel Speech, Mario Vargas Llosa called literature “a protest against the insufficiencies of life”. The late Peruvian writer—who wrote over 50 works of fiction, nonfiction and drama before his ...

It's not just in the UK that a series of votes on assisted dying are taking place. There is also a flurry of activity across the Atlantic. If both supporters and opponents are to be believed, New York ...

Just nine months after the last general election and probably more than 40 before the next, the battle cry of “unite the right” has been both surprisingly quick and slow off the mark. Quick because we ...

With just three weeks to go before the assisted dying bill returns to the Commons, it is worth looking at what happens next—and what is going on behind the scenes. Obviously, the biggest danger to the ...

Jess O’Thomson is a legal researcher, writer & journalist. They are currently a PhD researcher at the University of Leeds, School of Law. Their research explores the use of trans and disability human ...