Unraveling the deepest secrets of our universe—including how it was formed—may sound like a task too ambitious for our lifetime, but this is what today's cosmologists are planning to do, reports...

The Indian electorate has handed the centre-left Congress party an overwhelming mandate to govern---the alliance it leads won 262 out of the 543 seats in the national parliament. Here, Jonathan Power...

Britain's got talent, but what about kindness? Is the nation's love for TV talent shows and celebrity flagellation indicative of an enduring pleasure in cruelty? These questions are explored by...

Next month in Prospect we review Economist editor John Micklethwait's new book about the rise of world religion, which reproduces a familiar argument that the success of faith in America owes much to...

The ongoing spat between the CIA and Nancy Pelosi over whether  she was briefed by the Bush administration on waterboarding has left the speaker of the US house of representatives stuck in the...

  In the end the Indian voter had the last laugh. In the last edition of Prospect I wrote an essay about the chances of Mayawati, a regional dalit politican in northern India, surprising...

Earlier this year, journalist Toby Muse interviewed Martin Amis for Prospect, at the Hay Festival in Cartegena, Colombia. Over the coming days, First Drafts will be featuring the highlights of that...

Prince Charles' planned contribution to a debate at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)  has a caused a predictable stir this week. A number of the institute's prominent members are...

Two Thursdays ago was St. George’s Day. It may have passed you by. The streets of central London were not noticeably busier, give or take the odd group of drunken stragglers with English flags. The...

Good news today for those in Britain fighting for compensation from US drug giant Merck. As Jim Giles reported in January, relatives of British people who suffered heart attacks and other health...