Between 1996 and 2001, Prospect columnist Alex Renton reported on Israel and the Palestinian territories for the London Evening Standard. This February, he returned to Gaza for the first time to find...

Nicholson Baker has penned a comprehensive, if tongue in cheek, history of the charms of Wikipedia in the New York Review of Books this month: charting its journey from the beautiful idea a...

Those who have been enjoying the debate stirred by Trevor Phillips's article on Barack Obama in our current issue (on this blog and elsewhere) may be interested to read his response to some of the...

Following the furore that Trevor Phillips's piece on Barack Obama has provoked, we've now made available online a companion piece from the current issue by Robert Reich—US secretary of labour under...

The American journalist and writer William F Buckley died yesterday at the age of 82. Buckley founded the influential conservative magazine National Review in 1955. He published over 50 books...

In this month's cover story, Mark Leonard addresses a question that has been largely neglected by even the most ardent admirers of China's rise as an economic superpower: what exactly are the ideas...

In Prospect's lead opinion piece this month, Trevor Phillips—chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission and one of Britain's foremost black political figures—explains why he believes...

Britain's prison population now stands at 82,000. We're locking up more people than ever, and the number seems set to rise no matter who takes power at the next election. But is this increase a cause...

Our latest issue is now live on the web—and there's plenty of free material to read in addition to the three lead articles heading our landing page. By way of introductions, why not savour David...

What's happening at the New Statesman? Despite a handsome, and very expensive, relaunch back in 2006, the magazine's circulation continues to stagnate—in the last round of ABC audits it was even...