Twelve months ago, we published our shortlist of Top Thinkers for 2024—and you, Prospect readers, chose well. You picked Daron Acemoglu as the winner, and in October he received a second accolade: the ...

In this week's episode of Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel are joined by Karen Hao, journalist and author of Empire of AI. Karen talks about being banned from returning to OpenAI, after being ...

The best way to attract attention in the crowded space of technology is to make bold claims. AI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, director of the AI Futures Project, a research group based in California, ...

Welcome to this week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a basis of a discussion about law and policy.This week’s legal text is the 36 page order of the US ...

Part of the answer is that every political movement becomes self-parody once it loses momentum. Morgan Jones’s forthcoming book, No Second Chances, is a deep dive into the sectarian wings of the ...

In this week’s Q&A, Alan and Lionel look back over their journalistic careers and recall their toughest decisions. The former editors also discuss why they left the Guardian and the FT when they did, ...

The hosts also discuss Business Insider axing a fifth of its staff.And after chairing the European Press Prize judging panel for the last time, Alan reflects on his trip to Bari, Italy, and how he’s ...

Europe is under unprecedented threat: from Russia’s war in Ukraine and its wider imperial ambitions; from the United States’s disengagement from European security (at best) and betrayal (at worst); ...

Tech leaders and industry insiders are giddy with excitement about the advances under way in artificial intelligence, whether due to the scaling up of existing models and functionalities, new ...

Tanenhaus’s subtitle—The Life and the Revolution That Changed America—may sound hyperbolic, but very few who don’t directly become leaders can claim to have redirected their country in the way that ...

Duncan wrote about the world of crime like no other reporter could even dream of. How he did it, no one could quite explain. Nick Reynolds, son of the great train robber Bruce, told me: “You know, ...

This week, Ellen and Alona are joined by Devi Sridhar, professor of global public health at Edinburgh University and personal trainer, whose new book, How Not to Die (Too Soon), is a guide to living ...