Best of 2025: Suzanne Gordon

Providing the proper context for a story is one challenge not always met in journalism. Since publishing my first Prospect article on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) ten years ago, I’ve tried to do more than just report the latest news (usually bad) on efforts to privatize the veterans health care system. With the help and support of wonderful in-house editors, the veterans affairs beat at this publication has become a place where, I hope, readers have found information, analysis, relevant history...