It is generally agreed that being the archbishop of Canterbury is an impossible job. In modern times, tenures can begin with ...

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 ...

“In America, if you say something like, ‘I’m trying to build a global movement of ambitious idealists’, then the response is, ‘Yeah, of course,’” says Rutger Bregman. The historian and writer of ...

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 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 ...

What is alarming about Donald Trump’s return to the White House is not just that he won the presidency, but how he won it. In the closing months of the campaign, the conventional political ...

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 ...

After weeks of guesswork, Alan and Lionel are joined by the man behind Tortoise Media, James Harding, and journalist Carole Cadwalladr, to get the inside scoop on Tortoise’s bid for the Observer After ...

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, ...