Welcome to Prospect’s “weekly constitutional”, where a recent or non-recent legal case will be used to show how law and policy work—or do not work—in practice. This week’s post is drawn from the ...

The court’s arrest warrants against Israeli leaders may be a turning point for a world waking up to dangerous chauvinism—or else, the beginning of the end of the tribunal ...

Sayeeda Warsi on the Tories and why ‘Muslims don’t matter’ ...

The social media platform Bluesky has had a good year, to put it mildly. Since launching in 2023 as an invite-only community, then opening to the public in February 2024, it has quickly amassed more ...

The Nuffield Trust thinktank is researching the impact of assisted dying while remaining neutral on whether it should be legalised ...

In a Nevada courtroom, a family drama finally spilled out into public. On the streets of north London, hundreds of editorial staff walked out on strike. Look closely, and you can see a story of two ...

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Nick Butler is a Financial Times commentator and visiting professor, King's College London. He is a member of the International Energy Agency's commission for urgent action on energy efficiency ...

Francis Fukuyama is a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), a faculty member of FSI’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law ...

Alan Rusbridger is the editor of Prospect and the former head of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. He was editor of the Guardian from 1995 to 2015.