Obama's second term won't be easy

Bill Clinton is back in the limelight as an attack dog for the Obama campaign. Is he looking ahead to 2016?

It's impossible to be a great president

Prospect's founding editor looks back over the 15 years since the magazine was launched—and picks his top ten articles

The Democrats may cling on to the senate in the midterms—as long as there are no disasters

Republican whip Eric Cantor is a possible heir to Newt Gingrich. Plus, Hillary’s Gaddafi problem

Are there any limits to the Americanisation of Britain? Alan Ryan, who has just returned from nine years in the US, hopes that Britain will resist the punitive and religious enthusiasms from across the Atlantic, but argues that there is…

Bill Clinton, 50 in August, looks set for a second term. To a swathe of American opinion, liberal and conservative, this is a travesty. But Martin Walker contests the view that he is merely an undisciplined opportunist and describes his…

After 30 years of shuffling and blurring, the centre left in the US thinks it has established a new hard-edged progressive creed. Stephen Pollard considers the claim that it will dominate for a generation and asks whether New Labour can…

The collapse of communism has not led the US back to isolationism. Instead, argues Godfrey Hodgson, it has launched a new era of missionary interventionism-for the benefit of domestic audiences, not the US's allies