What kind of man is Robert Mugabe? How did the internationally feted liberation hero of the 1970s turn into the blood-soaked tyrant of today? Heidi Holland, who knew Mugabe when they were both...

His identical twin brother may have been ousted as prime minister last year, but President Lech Kaczynski of Poland is doing a good job of maintaining the family tradition of intransigence in foreign...

I'd hate to distract you from all the goodies in our Gülen-flecked July issue, but you may be interested to know that our man in France Profonde, Tim King, has kicked his Prospect blog back into...

The surprise winner of the Prospect/Foreign Policy global intellectuals poll is Fethullah Gülen, a US-based Turkish Sufi cleric with an international network of 5m followers, many hundreds of...

Prospect's Zimbabwe correspondent is sending—anonymously, for obvious reasons—regular dispatches from Harare as the election drama continues to unfold, exclusively for Prospect online. We hope to...

When Nicholas Stern's review on the economics of climate change came out in late 2006, it changed the terms of the climate debate. The warnings from scientists and environmental campaigners about the...

This week we have two replies to pieces from the last couple of issues of Prospect. Kenan Malik replies to Mark Pagel's review of his book Strange Fruit and laments his inability to move on from...

For many, the most exciting thing about Barack Obama's victory in the Democratic race is the prospect of a US president who will take concrete steps to improve America's tarnished reputation in the...

David Goodhart I was naturally keen to read the first issue of Standpoint, the new rival monthly to Prospect with a firm right-wing perspective. I came away feeling a mixture of jealousy and relief....

Very best of luck to Standpoint—the new monthly magazine edited by Daniel Johnson that aims to "defend and celebrate western civilisation"—the first issue of which is published today. A couple of...