This summer, when Kamala Harris replaced Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee for president, the Big News Story briefly overlapped with the Big Culture Story: Brat summer. My social feed was flooded ...

“I’m famous but not quite.” Of all the lyrics from Charli XCX’s 2024 album Brat, this is the one that has turned out to be the least true. Previously a “cult classic”, well known enough to be ...

I stood in front of Mother with Two Children, a bronze sculpture crafted by the German artist Käthe Kollwitz, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. I stood there for a long time, gazing. I wanted ...

Slick, gun-metal TV from Sky, following the titular Jackal, a notorious international assassin who specialises in using elaborate disguises to get close to his targets. It’s based on the 1971 thriller ...

The metro mayors in the Midlands and the north have been transforming their cities’ public transport services. A new age of the bus beckons ...

So that was Christmas. And as “the lights come on at four, at the end of another year”, and the festive season sours into its familiar hangover of grey days and bloated bodies, we find ourselves ...

Charli XCX is us. We are her. And we all want something the same, more, different… Of course, part of its meta genius is in understanding—just like it did on the “Girl, So Confusing” remix—that we, as ...

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 ...

Sam Freedman is a senior fellow at the Institute for Government and senior adviser to the Ark schools network ...

Ethan Zuckerman is associate professor of public policy, information and communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He's a veteran of the early dotcom industry and was part of the ...

I am reliably terrible at end of year lists. Ask me tomorrow, and my favourite record of the year might be wholly different to the list I would give you today, or yesterday, or next week. But on the ...