Prospect Magazine

China’s monopoly on rare earth metals could choke economies across the world

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Mary Fitzgerald: Harriet Harman shouldn't be forced on to the defensive in her pursuit of a more family-friendly employment arena

Jesus was born to tweet, or so it seems. He was after all something of a dab hand at the pithy aphorism. But just what would he tweet? Jesus: @thepeacemakers bless you!

In the new edition of Prospect—in shops tomorrow, but on subscribers’ doormats today—we have a new poll as part of a fun feature about the politics of Twitter. The claim is that Twitter is an oddly ...

Avoiding failure in Afghanistan means embracing its patronage politics—bribes and all

Rich philanthropists have the power to fund risky, long-term projects. So why don’t they?

Princess Diana is nowhere to be found at Althorp, the family seat of the Spencers. Instead, it’s a monument to family treachery and the casual cruelty of the upper classes

Cold warriors like myself badly overestimated the attractiveness of Marxism

David Vann’s violent treatment of his father’s suicide moves Julie Myerson to rethink her own father’s death and the dangerous borderlands that lie between fiction and memoir

Barack Obama pledged to heal America’s divisions. Despite successes in a bruising first year, his promise of change remains unfulfilled, and his country as divided as ever

You know that novel lurking inside you? The one that’s been trying to get out for years? This is the time to unleash it on an unsuspecting world. That’s because this month is (inter)National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo for short. ...