Readers of Jason Cowley's article about Charles Hills in today's Observer who would like to see a sample of Hills's writing for Prospect can find a complete list of his articles here (some are...

Barack Obama has been taking foreign policy advice from Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s. At first glance, this may seem an odd choice for...

Financial turmoil and the prospect of recession loom large in current discussions of the US, and cast long shadows over much of the world. Some feel that the balance of global power has begun to...

I've been writing about Martin Amis (again) for the current issue of Prospect—a review only available online to subscribers, I'm afraid—and have once again started to feel faintly sullied and...

In the new issue of Prospect, I've written an essay on the state of book reviewing in Britain. As I point out at the start of the piece, several articles on this topic have appeared in the US in...

As well as those lead articles available to all our website users, did you know that many of our shorter features can also be read online for free? Every month, you can read David Goodhart's...

At the unexpectedly early age of 64, chess great Bobby Fischer has died. Fischer had been based in Iceland since 2005, before which he had spent years on the run and endured a brief spell in prison,...

More coverage of the US presidential campaign this week, with a focus on two of the hot-button issues for the Republicans and Democrats respectively—immigration and healthcare. Will Straw, who...

The late Sir Edmund Hillary led a full and varied life. In an old interview replayed on the BBC World Service this morning, he said that he considered his conquest of Everest not to be the high point...

Neither Obama or Clinton will win this year’s presidential election. If either do it would be the greatest shock in US politics since the war. There has never been a black president, there has...