Barack Obama
Some Good News from Afghanistan
With a new partnership agreement, the United States has a chance to wind down its mission with its interests intact.
BY ZALMAY KHALILZAD | APRIL 23, 2012
Think Again: Al Qaeda
A year after Osama bin Laden's death, the obituaries for his terrorist group are still way too premature.
BY SETH G. JONES | MAY/JUNE 2012
Strike Out
David Rohde says the Pakistani military finds drone strikes effective. But research suggests they increase terrorist activity in the short run.
MAY/JUNE 2012
To Infinity and Beyond
While the final ride of the space shuttle might mark a low point in the era of manned spaceflight, there's another way to explore the solar system.
BY MICHAEL PECK | APRIL 19, 2012
The Narco State
There's good news on the drug war: The world knows how to end it -- so why can't the United States figure it out?
BY CHARLES KENNY | APRIL 16, 2012
Tale of the Tape
As the two heavyweights finally square up, who's got the advantage on the key foreign policy issues of the 2012 campaign?
BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | APRIL 12, 2012
Drama on the High Seas
The ongoing showdown between China and the Philippines is an opportunity for the United States to strengthen the Asian pivot.
BY SHEENA CHESTNUT GREITENS | APRIL 12, 2012
The Land of Too Many Summits
Considering how often they meet, Latin American leaders get surprisingly little done.
BY CHRISTOPHER SABATINI | APRIL 12, 2012
Romney’s Hill to Climb
If Romney thinks he can beat Obama on foreign policy, he's going to have to do a whole lot more than just criticize the president.
BY SCOTT CLEMENT | APRIL 11, 2012
After Chávez, the Narcostate
There are powerful men in Venezuela who are far worse than Hugo Chávez. And if Obama keeps "leading from behind" in Latin America, that's who we very well might get.
BY ROGER F. NORIEGA | APRIL 11, 2012
The Second-Term Illusion
Or, why Barack won't be beating up on Bibi next year.
BY AARON DAVID MILLER | APRIL 11, 2012
State of Disrepair
If the State Department really wants to lead U.S. foreign policy, it needs to stop complaining about the military and act more like it.
BY KORI SCHAKE | APRIL 11, 2012
Five Reasons Americans Should be Happy (In a Very Unhappy Middle East)
Cheer up. It's really bad. But all's not lost.
BY AARON DAVID MILLER | APRIL 4, 2012
The Zero Man
Obama’s greatest obstacle to re-election isn’t Mitt Romney, or rising gas prices: It’s Ben Bernanke.
BY HELEEN MEES | APRIL 3, 2012
The World in Photos This Week
The Pope dons a sombrero, French police hunt suspected Islamists, and a Tongan king is laid to rest.
MARCH 30, 2012
Power Grab
President Obama's real constitutional overreach was Libya, not health care.
BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | MARCH 28, 2012
Bowing to the Kremlin
Why Obama's "hot mic" diplomacy is endangering America.
BY MITT ROMNEY | MARCH 27, 2012
Hunger Games
Where's this big, transformational change we've been craving from Barack Obama?
BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | MARCH 26, 2012
Blurred Lines
If this administration won't tackle the vexing problems of America's vast intelligence gathering apparatus, we're all in danger.
BY JANE HARMAN | MARCH 26, 2012
Hearts and Minds
As of late 2010, a higher percentage of Afghans than Americans supported the war there. But is that support eroding?
BY SCOTT CLEMENT | MARCH 21, 2012
Six Big Lies About How Jerusalem Runs Washington
From the Jewish cabal to the Capitol Hill Knesset, the worst leaps of logic when it comes to Israel, U.S. politics, and the Middle East.
BY AARON DAVID MILLER | MARCH 21, 2012
The Goldilocks Principle
No one's perfect, and surely not President Obama. But in the rough and tumble world of foreign policy, it's hard to argue he hasn't done most things just about right.
BY AARON DAVID MILLER | MARCH 15, 2012
Persian Mathematics
Despite the Republican claims that Obama's Iran policy is weak-kneed, the American public generally supports his wait-and-see approach. That is, of course, unless it doesn't work.
BY SCOTT CLEMENT | MARCH 14, 2012
Campaign Manager
Can a board game really simulate the grueling twists and turns of the campaign trail?
BY MICHAEL PECK | MARCH 14, 2012
Cameron Bets on Obama
The British prime minister is a lot more like the American president than you think. And he clearly believes Barack is headed for victory in November.
BY OLIVER KAMM | MARCH 14, 2012
Kicking the Afghan Can
President Obama's Afghanistan strategy might be a political liability in November -- and he has no one to blame but himself for a war he never bothered to think through.
BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | MARCH 13, 2012
The Politics of Sorry
Six stations on the road to forgiveness -- and why there's no harm in President Obama apologizing to Afghanistan.
BY KARL E. MEYER | MARCH 12, 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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