Barack Obama

Das Gift

How Angela Merkel's bold plan to save Europe may have just saved Barack Obama.

BY BENJAMIN WEINTHAL | SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

The Fed Jumps on the Bandwagon

Where was Ben Bernanke when Obama needed him?

BY DANIEL ALTMAN | SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Don't Give Up on the Arab Spring

Why America did the right thing in Libya -- and freedom will eventually win.

BY SHADI HAMID | SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Stealing the Hymnal

The Democrats might have real differences over foreign policy with their Republican challengers, but you wouldn't know it from listening to them.

BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Bin There, Done That

Since when did the Democrats start talking like Rudy Giuliani?

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Three Wars on Terror

Ronald Reagan and the battle for Obama's strategic soul.

BY JOHN ARQUILLA | SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Is It Over Yet?

Watching the past two weeks of the Republican and Democratic conventions, it's hard to remember a more grotesque political event. 

BY ALEX MASSIE | SEPTEMBER 6, 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

Why Obama Will Win

Whatever his failings, the president is likeable enough -- and incumbency is a powerful home-court advantage.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Renewing America’s Fighting Faith

Barack Obama's correction to the excesses of the George W. Bush years was necessary. But cold-blooded realism is not enough to safeguard America's interests and promote its values.

BY WILL MARSHALL | SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Bipartisan Bloat

If there's one thing that Obama and Romney agree on, it's more military spending. Too bad they're both wrong.

BY CHRISTOPHER PREBLE | SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

R Is for Reckless

Why the Republicans can't be trusted with national security.

BY JOHN KERRY | SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

7 Questionable Claims in the Democratic Platform

From Guantánamo to Joseph Kony, the boasts that could invite a backlash.

BY URI FRIEDMAN | SEPTEMBER 4, 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

Pipe Dreams

Why Mitt Romney can't free America from Middle East oil.

BY MICHAEL LEVI | AUGUST 23, 2012

Budget-Waving Contest

Romney's ridiculous fight about who's got the bigger military doesn't worry Obama. But should it?

BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | AUGUST 8, 2012

A Candidate Abroad

Mitt Romney's whirlwind tour proved the GOP nominee still has some things to learn on foreign policy.

JULY 31, 2012

Warning: Turbulence Ahead

Mitt Romney has a point: Barack Obama is no Israel-lover. And if the president wins a second term, expect a major clash with Benjamin Netanyahu.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | JULY 25, 2012

The End of the Affair

Four years after Barack Obama's landmark Berlin speech, the transatlantic alliance is fading fast. What went wrong?

BY MARK LEONARD | JULY 24, 2012

The Innocents Abroad

The 'tradition' of American presidential challengers demonstrating their foreign-policy chops with a big international trip is no tradition at all.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JULY 24, 2012

Word Is Bond

Has President Obama kept Candidate Obama's campaign promises?

BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | JULY 23, 2012

Hope But No Change

Why has President Obama abandoned the one country in Africa he promised to help?

BY MVEMBA PHEZO DIZOLELE | JULY 16, 2012

Shipping Away Jobs and Common Sense

In demonizing outsourcing, both Obama and Romney are playing a stupid political game with the U.S. economy.

BY DANIEL ALTMAN | JULY 13, 2012

Insourcing

America's real outsourcing crisis isn't the one Obama and Romney are arguing about. It's the talented immigrants who are prevented from setting up shop in America.

BY VIVEK WADHWA | JULY 10, 2012

Tea, Taxes, and the Revolution

The Founding Fathers would revolt if they saw America’s tax burden today.

BY GROVER G. NORQUIST | JULY 3, 2012

Gunpoint Stimulus

Defense contractors are trying to frighten Americans into believing that Pentagon budget cuts will destroy the economy. It's bogus.

BY LAWRENCE J. KORB, ALEX ROTHMAN, MAX HOFFMAN | JULY 2, 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