Election 2012
Swing Producers
Ten states where the energy debate could decide the U.S. election in November.
BY LOGAN BAYROFF | JUNE 12, 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 Obama Paradox
A conversation with David Sanger, author of a new book on Obama's secret wars.
INTERVIEW BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | JUNE 4, 2012
U.N. Human Rights Council Condemns Actual Human Rights Abusers!
Or, in praise of small victories.
BY JAMES TRAUB | JUNE 1, 2012
How Far Would Americans Go to Save Syria?
Not as far as ground troops.
BY SCOTT CLEMENT | JUNE 1, 2012
The Conservative Defense Revolution
Or, how the Tea Party learned to love the Pentagon.
BY JAMES JAY CARAFANO | MAY 27, 2012
Romney: Year One
What would happen if you took Mitt Romney's foreign-policy promises extremely literally?
BY DANIEL DREZNER | MAY 25, 2012
5 World Events That Could Swing the U.S. Election
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are slugging it out over the economy, but the world may have a trick or two up its sleeve.
BY URI FRIEDMAN | MAY 24, 2012
Damned if You Do
Obama hasn't made a peep about cutting U.S. support to NATO -- though everyone agrees it's necessary to get Europeans to pay their fair share. And yet, Romney attacks him for it.
BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | MAY 23, 2012
Barack O'Romney
Ignore what the candidates say they'll do differently on foreign policy. They're basically the same man.
BY AARON DAVID MILLER | MAY 23, 2012
Obama's Debacle
The president has protected his right flank for now, but history won’t be so kind.
BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | MAY 21, 2012
The Government We Deserve
Americans are sick and tired of Washington's dysfunctional politics. But it's not Congress they should be angry at -- Americans got exactly the system of government they asked for.
BY ALASDAIR ROBERTS | MAY 21, 2012
A Tale of Two Inaugurations
Whose inauguration had more bling -- Russian President Vladimir Putin's or French President François Hollande's?
MAY 15, 2012
The Value Proposition
Candidates like to preach the preeminence of American values on the campaign trail, but it's interests that dominate inside the White House.
BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | MAY 14, 2012
Where in the World Is Same-Sex Marriage Legal?
It's not just those liberal Northern Europeans who have embraced homosexual unions.
BY URI FRIEDMAN | MAY 10, 2012
The Last RINO
To the modern Republican Party, Richard Lugar was already a dead man walking. He just didn't realize it.
BY JACOB HEILBRUNN | MAY 8, 2012
President Paul
Ron Paul maybe a long shot in November, but he's America's best bet on foreign policy.
BY MICHAEL SCHEUER | MAY 3, 2012
Can Poor People Open a Swiss Bank Account?
Bad news: You need more than a passport, some pocket change, and a healthy disdain for the IRS.
BY URI FRIEDMAN | MAY 2, 2012
Tarred and Feathered
Vice President Joe Biden's confident speech today painted Mitt Romney as both George W. Bush and Michael Dukakis when it comes to foreign policy.
BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | APRIL 26, 2012
The New, New World Order
Do Americans still hate the United Nations?
BY SCOTT CLEMENT | APRIL 26, 2012
5 Reasons Obama Will Win in November
The election is six months away, but here's why the president already has this one in the bag.
BY AARON DAVID MILLER | APRIL 25, 2012
The Rubio Doctrine
The potential veep contender makes a decidedly non-Romneyesque statement on foreign policy.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | APRIL 25, 2012
A Nation of Spoiled Brats
Financial Times columnist Ed Luce explains the real reason for American decline.
INTERVIEW BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | 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
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
The Second-Term Illusion
Or, why Barack won't be beating up on Bibi next year.
BY AARON DAVID MILLER | APRIL 11, 2012
Seven Flip-Flops Romney Needs to Make
During the bruising Republican primary, front-runner Mitt Romney has talked himself into a corner on some key foreign-policy issues. He's going to have to shake the Etch-a-Sketch one more time if he's going to win the election and actually govern as president.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | 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
How much would a no-fly zone over Syria cost?
BY KEVIN BARON
Cuba's greatest export isn't cigars -- it's doctors
BY ELIAS GROLL
No, the Spanish can't be more German -- and other myths of the euro crisis
BY MICHAEL PETTIS
Dennis Rodman calls on Kim Jong Un to do him 'a solid' and release American detainee
BY URI FRIEDMAN
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Is there a relationship between more women in government and happier mothers?
BY ELIZABETH F. RALPH
Odierno: Sequestration leaves military unprepared for Syria
BY KEVIN BARON
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