Obama Administration
It's Not as Easy as 1-2-3
The Obama team fights over how to promote nuclear energy without promoting nuclear weapons.
BY JEFFREY LEWIS | AUGUST 1, 2012
Why Syria's Rebels Can't Have It All
Don't listen to pundits who want to drag America into another Middle East quagmire. The Obama administration's strategy in Syria is already working.
BY AARON DAVID MILLER | AUGUST 1, 2012
Our Brothers in Arms
Will the Pentagon continue to support Egypt's military under a new Islamist government?
BY KEVIN BARON | JULY 31, 2012
Kangaroo Court
The Obama administration has done much to clean up the legal mess in Guantánamo. But as the ongoing trial of a top al Qaeda suspects makes clear, it has not done nearly enough.
BY MARIA MCFARLAND SANCHEZ-MORENO | JULY 27, 2012
Word Is Bond
Has President Obama kept Candidate Obama's campaign promises?
BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | JULY 23, 2012
Woman Up
Why Hillary Clinton needs to stand up for the women of Egypt.
BY ELISA MASSIMINO | JULY 13, 2012
The Romney-Cheney Doctrine
Mitt Romney's a big fan of George W. Bush's vice president. And that's a worrying sign for America's foreign policy.
BY ADAM SMITH | JULY 12, 2012
Talking a Great Game
So far, Washington's pivot to Asia has included a lot of work on security and trade. Democracy, not so much.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JULY 11, 2012
The Sanctions Aren't Working
In its failing drive to stop Iran’s nuclear program, the West is only empowering hardliners and pushing the Iranian people to the brink of poverty.
BY ESKANDAR SADEGHI-BOROUJERDI, MUHAMMAD SAHIMI | JULY 5, 2012
Prescription for Decline
The Supreme Court's ruling was a step in the right direction. But spiraling health-care costs could still doom America's recovery.
BY WILL MARSHALL | JUNE 28, 2012
Putin's Got America Right Where He Wants It
And that's bad news for Obama.
BY MICHAEL WEISS | JUNE 28, 2012
The Twisted Arc of History
In the land of no-good-options, is Barack Obama doing enough to push the cause of human rights in the Middle East?
BY JAMES TRAUB | JUNE 22, 2012
Debating Hillary
Has Hillary Clinton -- the subject of a major new profile in Foreign Policy -- been a good secretary of state? Seven top foreign-policy watchers assess her legacy.
JUNE 20, 2012
For Multilateralism, Is This the Dark Moment Before the Dawn?
Let's hope so.
BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | JUNE 18, 2012
Head of State
Hillary Clinton, the blind dissident, and the art of diplomacy in the Twitter era.
BY SUSAN B. GLASSER | JULY/AUGUST 2012
Obama's Secret Hypocrisy
Why is the president cracking down on whistleblowers while his administration is leaking like a sieve?
BY TREVOR TIMM | JUNE 15, 2012
No More Half Measures
A compromise solution that removes Syria's Bashar al-Assad but replaces him with a crony is now fully off the table. It's time for Washington to back the opposition.
BY DANIEL BYMAN | JUNE 14, 2012
An Annotated Guide to All Those White House Leaks
The 10 Obama administration disclosures that Attorney General Eric Holder should investigate.
BY URI FRIEDMAN | JUNE 13, 2012
Swing Producers
Ten states where the energy debate could decide the U.S. election in November.
BY LOGAN BAYROFF | JUNE 12, 2012
The Patience Runs Out
The United States has put up with Pakistan's insidious double game for a decade now. Not anymore.
BY SHAMILA N. CHAUDHARY | JUNE 12, 2012
Sit this One Out
Why Obama shouldn't use drones to go after Mali's Islamic radical separatists.
BY JAMES TRAUB | JUNE 8, 2012
Good Leak, Bad Leak
A look at the Obama administration's hot-and-cold approach to secrets.
BY URI FRIEDMAN | JUNE 8, 2012
Killing It
Why President Obama's kill list controversy is only good news for his reelection campaign.
BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | JUNE 6, 2012
The Enemy in Foggy Bottom?
Fine, Secretary Romney is a bad idea. But there are plenty of good reasons that presidents should cross the aisle when picking a secretary of state.
BY AARON DAVID MILLER | JUNE 6, 2012
A Failure to Communicate
Why is the Obama administration using its radio station to attack the Cuban Catholic Church?
BY FULTON T. ARMSTRONG | JUNE 1, 2012
U.N. Human Rights Council Condemns Actual Human Rights Abusers!
Or, in praise of small victories.
BY JAMES TRAUB | JUNE 1, 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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