Obama Administration
The Amphibian
How Barack Obama learned to cover his right flank -- and his left.
BY JAMES TRAUB | OCTOBER 26, 2012
Rhetorical Questions
Tough talk couldn't have saved Ambassador Stevens.
BY JAMES DOBBINS | OCTOBER 25, 2012
Jerks vs. Waterboarders
The best reason to pick Obama over Romney.
BY ROSA BROOKS | OCTOBER 25, 2012
Tell Us the One About the Robots, Mr. President
Want to lead the free world? You'd better figure out what to do about the rise of the machines.
BY PETER W. SINGER | OCTOBER 24, 2012
In Praise of Apathy
It's time to stop deriding the Americans who refuse to vote. They're trying to tell us something.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | OCTOBER 24, 2012
Please God, Not Another Blue-Ribbon Panel
Here's how to really fix the State Department.
BY JOHN NORRIS | OCTOBER 24, 2012
Hey, Big Spender
Republicans like to say that Obama's gone soft on nukes. In fact, he's spending $213 billion more on them.
BY DAVID E. HOFFMAN | OCTOBER 22, 2012
The Pivot to Economics
The State Department is hard at work integrating economics into U.S. foreign policy.
BY HEIDI CREBO-REDIKER | OCTOBER 19, 2012
The Case for Intervention...
In Obama's dysfunctional foreign-policy team.
BY ROSA BROOKS | OCTOBER 18, 2012
Swiss Cheese
The EU's "strong" sanctions on Iran are full of holes, but might they be enough to prevent the U.S. going to war?
BY BENJAMIN WEINTHAL | OCTOBER 18, 2012
Where the Arab Spring Has Not Yet Sprung
The spirit of rebellion continues to simmer in the Middle East and North Africa. But you won’t see much about it in the headlines.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | OCTOBER 17, 2012
What the Frack?!
How the 2012 election could come down to one thing: coal.
BY DAVID ROBERTS | OCTOBER 16, 2012
How the Russian 'Reset' Explains Obama's Foreign Policy
The president's naivete about Vladimir Putin is the root cause of his failure.
BY DOUGLAS J. FEITH, SETH CROPSEY | OCTOBER 16, 2012
Enough Already
When it comes to Israel, neither Obama nor Romney is as good or bad as American Jews think.
BY AARON DAVID MILLER | OCTOBER 9, 2012
A Truly Credible Military Threat to Iran
The Israelis and the Americans are zeroing in on a strike option that has a real chance of deterring the mullahs -- and defusing Mitt Romney's attacks.
BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | OCTOBER 8, 2012
The FP Survey: The Economy
If we're ever going to get out of this slump, what will it take? We asked more than 60 leading economists to tell us.
NOVEMBER 2012
Better Late than Never
How naive self-confidence led Barack Obama astray, before prudence brought him back.
BY JAMES TRAUB | OCTOBER 5, 2012
The White House's Benghazi Problem
Under pressure from the right, the Obama administration has declared the killing of its ambassador in Libya a "terrorist attack." The trouble is, its explanations just don't make sense.
BY LOUIS KLAREVAS | SEPTEMBER 20, 2012
An Open Letter to the United States of America
Some unsolicited thoughts from an Egyptian revolutionary.
BY MAHMOUD SALEM | SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
Wait, You Still Don't Like Us?
Why the Muslim world hasn't warmed toward America over the past four years.
BY RICHARD WIKE | SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
A Man with a Plan
Unlike Mitt Romney, Barack Obama not only has a plan to strengthen American statecraft, he's got four years of achievements to show for his efforts.
BY CHARLES A. KUPCHAN , BRUCE W. JENTLESON | SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
Left Behind
Obama has turned his back on us liberals. So why aren't we screaming about it?
BY TODD GITLIN | SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
Sound and Sensible
Mitt Romney’s foreign policy would echo the best of America’s bipartisan traditions. But the desperate Obama caricature of it is just a sad indication of how much the president has failed.
BY PETER D. FEAVER | AUGUST 30, 2012
A Dangerous Mind
Mitt Romney’s foreign policy isn’t an afterthought, it’s a frightening return to a bullying neoconservative ideology -- and Americans should be worried.
BY BRUCE W. JENTLESON, CHARLES A. KUPCHAN | AUGUST 30, 2012
The Politically Incorrect Guide to U.S. Interests in the Middle East
Sorry, folks: America just doesn't care about freedom or Arab-Israeli peace all that much.
BY AARON DAVID MILLER | AUGUST 15, 2012
Let Them Hunt
If President Obama is serious about wanting to apprehend Joseph Kony, he's got to unleash the dogs of war.
BY JOHN PRENDERGAST | AUGUST 13, 2012
Making Friends with Friends
Mitt Romney, Charles Krauthammer, and conservative pundits are plain wrong: Barack Obama hasn't lost Europe. That was his predecessor's doing.
BY SEAN KAY | AUGUST 7, 2012
Can Egypt's Islamist finance minister cut a deal with the IMF?
BY DAVID KENNER
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Odierno: Syrian rebels will prevail, but sequester makes U.S. intervention risky
BY KEVIN BARON
Time to bring the nukes back to South Korea
BY BENNETT RAMBERG
Meet Cody Wilson, the anarchist behind the world's first 3-D printed gun
BY ELIAS GROLL
Does this woman look like she'd be a good president of Bulgaria?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
U.N. investigator on Syria: Out over her skis yet again?
BY JOHN HUDSON
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