Election 2012
Think Again: The Republican Party
The future of the GOP -- after the debacle.
BY DANIELLE PLETKA | JANUARY 2, 2013
Geek Squad
How behavioral scientists could make Obama's second term a success.
BY RICHARD THALER | JANUARY 2, 2013
Getting Down to Business
The bad news is Washington hasn't seen the last of its bickering, dithering, and gridlock. The good news is Obama can change that in his first 100 days.
BY MOHAMED A. EL-ERIAN | JANUARY 2, 2013
Four More Years … in Exile
Can Republicans find their way out of the foreign-policy wilderness?
BY JOHN NORRIS | NOVEMBER 26, 2012
The Awakening
Why white nationalists are thrilled with Obama's victory
BY J.M. BERGER | NOVEMBER 12, 2012
Is J Street Winning?
This election showed that the Democratic Party's views toward Israel are changing in some disturbing ways.
BY STEVEN J. ROSEN | NOVEMBER 9, 2012
Back to Work
7 things the U.N. can finally get around to doing now that the U.S. election is over.
BY COLUM LYNCH | NOVEMBER 9, 2012
Stardust Across the Pond
Can Obama's magic rub off on David Cameron?
BY ALEX MASSIE | NOVEMBER 9, 2012
Why the World Can't Have a Nate Silver
The quants are riding high after Team Data crushed Team Gut in the U.S. election forecasts. But predicting the Electoral College vote is child's play next to some of these hard targets.
BY JAY ULFELDER | NOVEMBER 8, 2012
The Dream Team
Barack Obama's election triumph is only days old, but already the buzz has shifted from the horserace to the coming shakeups among his top aides and cabinet secretaries. To help the president out, we asked seven top thinkers to select the brain trust that Obama should have at his side as he retools his foreign policy for a second term.
NOVEMBER 8, 2012
Brace Yourself
The U.S. may well go off the fiscal cliff. Is that so bad?
BY DAVID W. BARNO, NORA BENSAHEL, JOEL SMITH, JACOB STOKES | NOVEMBER 7, 2012
Worst Predictions: Election Edition
The 10 dumbest calls of the campaign.
BY JOSHUA KEATING | NOVEMBER 7, 2012
It’s the Stimulus, Stupid
Why Obama won reelection when virtually every other incumbent in the West has been bounced from office.
BY JAMES TRAUB | NOVEMBER 7, 2012
Time for a Reset on Human Rights
Obama’s record has been a disappointment. Now he has a second chance to get it right.
BY SUZANNE NOSSEL | NOVEMBER 7, 2012
'A Period of Persistent Conflict'
Why the United States will never have another peacetime president.
BY MICAH ZENKO | NOVEMBER 6, 2012
How Ancient Plankton Elected Obama
And other crazy tales from the world's electoral maps.
BY FRANK JACOBS | NOVEMBER 6, 2012
8 Ways the World Has Changed Since Obama's Election
With Election Day finally upon us, it's worth reflecting on what a difference four years makes.
BY TY MCCORMICK, URI FRIEDMAN | NOVEMBER 6, 2012
Five Voting Systems Even Worse than the Electoral College
Think the United States has a crazy way to pick a president? You should see how Lebanon does it.
BY DANIEL LANSBERG-RODRÍGUEZ, TOM GINSBURG | NOVEMBER 6, 2012
Rights and Responsibility
The candidates may disagree on some human rights issues, but the next president will face challenges that transcend partisan lines.
BY KENNETH ROTH | NOVEMBER 5, 2012
No Game Change
The bipartisan consensus in Washington about expanding ties with India may be good for New Delhi, but it's turned the election into a snoozer.
BY SADANAND DHUME | NOVEMBER 5, 2012
Resetting the Reset
The United States needs to decide whether to treat Russia as a marginal global actor or an asset in America's global strategy.
BY DMITRI TRENIN | NOVEMBER 5, 2012
Back to Africa
If Barack Obama is reelected, he'll have to deliver on his promises to Africa -- and act more like Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush.
BY MVEMBA PHEZO DIZOLELE | NOVEMBER 5, 2012
Land of the Lost
Latin Americans may prefer Barack Obama over Mitt Romney, but few believe either candidate will pay the region the attention it deserves.
BY MICHAEL SHIFTER | NOVEMBER 5, 2012
Trouble in Pyongyang
As the United States dithers, an emboldened North Korea is quietly establishing itself as a small nuclear power.
BY JOEL S. WIT , JENNY TOWN | NOVEMBER 5, 2012
The Tradeoff
When it comes to developing an industrial policy that can revive the U.S. economy, the president may have a leg up on his Republican challenger.
BY CLYDE PRESTOWITZ | NOVEMBER 5, 2012
A Tale of Two Mitts
We know where Barack Obama stands on the world's most dangerous weapons. But what's Mitt Romney's nuclear policy?
BY JOE CIRINCIONE | NOVEMBER 5, 2012
A Stronger Pivot
Mitt Romney would manage relations with a rising China better than Barack Obama.
BY DANIEL TWINING | NOVEMBER 5, 2012
Pakistani Power Play
If the United States wants to curb terrorism and nuclear proliferation, it needs to fundamentally rethink its relationship with Pakistan.
BY C. CHRISTINE FAIR | NOVEMBER 5, 2012
Time to bring the nukes back to South Korea
BY BENNETT RAMBERG
Does this woman look like she'd be a good president of Bulgaria?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
Meet Cody Wilson, the anarchist behind the world's first 3-D printed gun
BY ELIAS GROLL
U.N. investigator on Syria: Out over her skis yet again?
BY JOHN HUDSON
How 'Casablanca' explains the sequester
BY GORDON ADAMS
The 'Onion' latest victim of Syrian Electronic Army's fat jokes
Video: The Navy's stealth drone makes its first arrested landing
BY JOHN REED
Is U.S. credibility really on the line in Syria?
BY DARYL G. PRESS AND JENNIFER LIND
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