The March publication of the Byron Review, the government's first official investigation into the effects of electronic media on children, offered an opportunity to examine what is potentially being...

With half the newspapers in the land pronouncing the death of New Labour following last week's crushing defeat in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election, the party desperately needs some new ideas. One...

If we are to expect anything at all from the dying months of George W Bush's lamest of lame duck presidencies, look to Israel/Palestine. Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state, has been spending an...

In her essay for Prospect this month, epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani tells the story of the changing relationship between HIV and Aids in Britain's gay community, and the changing behaviours...

In this month's lead review, Mark Pagel, professor of evolutionary biology at Reading University, reads two new books about race, genetics and social structures—Strange Fruit by Kenan Malik, and...

Since its birth just over a century ago, cinema has perhaps changed the way we see the world, and ourselves within it, more than any other art. In his essay this month, Prospect's film columnist Mark...

The great faultline in Turkish politics is usually considered to be the authoritarian secularists, as represented by the army, vs the democratic Islamists, who in the form of the AK party are...

Dave Hill, who's been tirelessly pounding the streets for the Guardian covering the mayoral campaign, does a good job of outlining the reasons why you should vote for Ken today, and why, despite his...

In the April 2008 issue of Prospect, Gershom Gorenberg previewed the launch of a new "liberal" Israel lobby in America. The lobby has now launched, under the name "J Street"—describing itself as...

If you weren't put off by the slightly silly questions on More4 News's feature about the Prospect/Foreign Policy top 100 global public intellectuals poll last night (which consisted largely of a...