"Fat blocking" Pepsi Special will be released tomorrow in Japan.
Across the country, an aggressive grassroots movement is winning support with its demands for GMO labeling. If only it had science on its side.
America's last major book store chain is shuttering locations as it tries to evolve for a digital future. Is this simply a tough transition, or the beginning of the end?
How trends from the fast-casual craze are trickling down into the struggling fast-food universe
Its length? A tweet-friendly 138 characters.
It is unclear if even Russia will recognize the results of the vote, which Kiev and most Western leaders have condemned.
A globetrotting investigation into the biggest new idea in international development.
The story of how the album, which just turned 25, was forged by the "Wacko Jacko" backlash against the pop star
Armstrong's lying, arrogance, and contempt for others describe a narcissist who feels that his ideal self-image is under siege.
We’ve entered a new era—and it’s not just our language that has changed.
The South Korea of yore had none of PSY's irony.
And the more adorable the critter, the better.
A pictorial investigation bureau, at your service.
Missed diagnoses in hospital intensive care units may result in as many deaths per year as breast cancer.
The 2012 job market looked a whole lot like the 2011 job market, except for one huge difference.
Facebook encourages us to understand people not just as populations, but as categories.
At no point during the speeches could anyone forget that Armstrong lived an extraordinary life.
Britain's GDP fell again in the fourth quarter of 2012, raising the specter of a triple-dip recession
Even if the founding fathers thought the filibuster was great, we have no reason to defer to their wisdom any more than we're obligated to protect slavery or deny women the vote.
Fifty years after the Six-Day War, a mistaken account of how settlement began still plagues Israeli politics.
The determination to represent the entire working class is the best chance labor has had in over 40 years to put the “labor question” before the nation again.
Or Costco. Or Target.
Chinese demand for ivory is driving conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Oldest siblings aspire to higher levels of formal education—and they're more likely to stick with it.
When South Carolinians buy South Carolina peaches, there are unique regional benefits. Here's how the USDA is helping make that happen.
Understanding the biggest story in Washington today
Why? Because when technology steps aside, nature takes over.
President Obama and the House and Senate Democrats won the first round of the budget battle over the shutdown. But what happens when we do this again next year?
Sometimes going to prison can be an unfortunately rational health care decision.
Some institutions may not adapt to 21st-century radical transparency. The papacy's turn to inflammatory rhetoric while hit by a series of damaging leaks suggests that it's struggling.
87,000 people have gotten insurance through the state's Medicaid expansion—now that it's working so well, GOP legislators are trying to get rid of the plan.
He was the poster boy for the movement to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell.” Now what?
A romp through the weird, scary, awesome future of mobile communications.
And that's the last thing the city needs as it braces for Hurricane Isaac.
What holds a society together in the absence of common ideas?
Other countries offer models for truly nationwide tributes to military service and sacrifice.
How best to give birth is a topic of perennial interest—a conversation between Prospect staffers who stand on different sides of the home birth debate.
The fate of Massachusetts's buffer-zone law doesn't look promising after yesterday's Supreme Court oral arguments.
An homage to the distinctive and disappearing architecture of a bygone era
Does "advice on packing in pleasure when doing the deed full speed" actually influence our overall perspective?
