The Prospect’s co-founder and co-editor takes us through his favorite stories of the year.
America and the World
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Green Investment and Private Profiteers
Prospect Writing Fellow Lee Harris’s Best of 2021
Posted inAmerica and the World
Tanzania and Nigeria Struggle With Water Access, Quality
As the climate crisis intensifies and COVID-19 persists, the two countries still confront problems that privatization efforts never solved.
Posted inAmerica and the World
France’s Éric Zemmour Has Already Transformed America’s Far Right
The far-right pundit may not become the next president of France, but his ideas have influenced American nationalists for a decade.
Posted inAmerica and the World
A Better Way in the Middle East
For America, the Baghdad dialogue makes far more strategic sense than the Abraham Accords.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Guantanamo in 2021: Are We a Nation of Laws or a Nation of Fears?
A Senate hearing last week recontextualized the debate over the prison.
Posted inAmerica and the World
The Narrow Path to Averting War Over Ukraine
Hawks on both sides need to back off. The resolution of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis is a useful analogy.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Nord Stream Pipeline Snarled in the U.S.-Russia ‘Fossil Energy War’
Discarded sanctions over Nord Stream were attempted protectionism for U.S. gas producers.
Posted inTAP
The Biden-Scholz Connection
Today on TAP: The new German chancellor can be both an economic soul mate and a key ally on Ukraine policy.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Cowboy Drugstore
Traces of a kleptocrat from Iraq to Delaware to Miami
