When we founded the Prospect in 1989, the idea was to have a magazine serious about ideas and serious about politics and power. Several recent pieces live up to that dream.
Our prodigious executive editor, David Dayen, wrote a virtuoso piece, Islands in the Stream, that connects David’s encyclopedic knowledge about economic concentration to his passion
for popular music. I learned some things from that deeply reported piece that I didn't know I didn't know.
Our deputy editor Gabrielle Gurley’s article on water privatization politics connects the story of a small city’s fiscal distress to a predatory industry seeking to turn water from a public good into a commodity. It's part of the larger story of one great struggle of our time — to keep the largest corporations from destroying everything else that matters. "Only connect," the novelist E.M. Forster famously wrote. The Prospect makes reportorial and analytical and political connections, and helps you gain useful insights. I hope you will connect with the Prospect more deeply, and help us to bring you many more articles like these.
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