2024 Election Coverage Could Get Bumpy!

The triangle represents the three forces that have succeeded in getting America within spitting distance of losing its democracy: Republican authoritarianism, Democratic timorousness, and media incompetence.

That incompetence is appalling. Elite media analysis of the black and white evidence of a coup has far too often played out according to the ossified habits of normal political journalism—questions like, "who's winning the messaging war?" This is shameful.

The Prospect, like the best of alternative media, gets it right again and again on stories the mainstream misses. The Prospect team understands that facilitating citizenship is literally why the founders came up with the "free press" part of the First Amendment in the first place. We will make sure you know what is really at stake. Come along for the ride – it’s going to get bumpy.