For some Americans, the motive behind their vote was best expressed in a poster, visible in the western Pennsylvania countryside last week, which read “Trump, God and Guns”. But for many others, the ...
There was a wide gender gap in this US election, just as there was in 2016 and 2020. Kamala Harris enjoyed a 10-percentage point lead over Donald Trump among women voters, according to the exit polls.
The American people have rejected their own democracy, embracing a man who previously sought to annul their votes. They have formalised post-truth, determining that mendacity is no bar to public ...
The Conservatives have survived the last four months as the only opposition party with a credible claim to be able to lead an alternative government. These facts may prove to be far more significant ...
Would legalising assisted dying end unnecessary suffering? Or would it instead enable the abuse of some of society’s most vulnerable people? As parliament examines assisted dying once again, Prospect ...
It has been called a national emergency, an epidemic, and a public health crisis. Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is all of those things. In its election manifesto, the Labour party pledged to ...
The dog that didn’t bark was one of Sherlock Holmes’s most famous three-pipe mysteries. There is, by contrast, no great puzzle about the newspaper that didn’t endorse. Jeff Bezos decreed it. And when ...
The budget was a disorientating novelty. After four months of seemingly drifting governance, and four years of cripplingly cautious opposition, this was the moment when Keir Starmer’s Labour party ...
Pulitzer-winning journalist Steve Coll analyses the election, and Robert Kagan discusses his resignation from the Washington Post following a controversial decision Just days ahead of the US election, ...
American voters are too calm about their coming election. Many in the centre of the ideological spectrum, and particularly those swing state voters who will decide the winner, see this as a time of ...