Election 2012
This Year in Political Food Fights
Mitt Romney claimed grits, David Cameron staked out meat pies, and now Rick Santorum's trying to turn the jelly belly red.
BY URI FRIEDMAN | MARCH 30, 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
Hollow Threats
Mitt Romney's aggressive harangues about China don't scare us. And does he really want to pick a fight with a nation of 1.3 billion people?
BY HU XIJIN | MARCH 21, 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
Who Said It: Ron Paul or Ron Paul?
The Republican presidential candidate may be a party-switcher, but he's no flip-flopper.
BY URI FRIEDMAN | MARCH 20, 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
What David Cameron Can Teach the GOP
American Republicans have all but destroyed their brand during this election cycle. Their once-and-future Tory allies across the pond can teach them how to build it back up.
BY ALEX MASSIE | MARCH 12, 2012
Six International Newspaper Columnists Who Actually Like Mitt Romney
The Republican candidate has boosters in unlikely places -- from Canada to the Congo.
BY URI FRIEDMAN | MARCH 8, 2012
Gettin' the Gipper Wrong
Mitt Romney doesn’t know what he's talking about when it comes to Ronald Reagan's foreign policy.
BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | MARCH 8, 2012
Who Said It: Bush or Obama?
When it comes to their rhetoric on Iran, there's less distance between the cowboy and the community organizer than you might think.
BY URI FRIEDMAN | MARCH 6, 2012
The Ron Paul Revolution Continues
If they continue to malign and ignore the libertarian wing of the Republican Party, GOP elders will be slamming the door on their future.
BY CHRISTOPHER PREBLE | MARCH 6, 2012
Not-So-Super Tuesday
The real winner of the Republican primary is Barack Obama.
BY RUY TEIXEIRA | MARCH 6, 2012
Stuck in a Rut
If the Republicans really want to attack President Obama on foreign policy, they’re going to have to do a lot better than just recycling tired, old ideas.
BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | MARCH 2, 2012
The Driller in Chief
President Obama's critics say he's been a disaster for the energy industry. But the numbers tell a different story.
BY MICHAEL LEVI | MARCH 1, 2012
Between Iran and a Hard Place
Forced to choose between high gas prices and a nuclear Iran, Barack Obama could very well remake himself into a war president.
BY GAL LUFT | MARCH 1, 2012
From Strength to Strength
Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie have it all wrong. Americans believe in President Barack Obama’s foreign policy competence -- and picking a fight just makes the GOP candidates look lame.
BY JEREMY ROSNER, STANLEY GREENBERG | FEBRUARY 29, 2012
A Threat We Can Live With
Most Americans really don’t like North Korea, but few say it’s worth going to war to make them get rid of their nuclear weapons.
BY SCOTT CLEMENT | FEBRUARY 29, 2012
Nice Oil Imports You've Got There. Shame if You Lost Them.
Why Americans need to be more grateful to Canada.
BY VACLAV SMIL | FEBRUARY 29, 2012
Grand Ayatollah or Grand Old Party?
Who said it: Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei or U.S. Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum?
BY REZA ASLAN | FEBRUARY 29, 2012
The Global Health President
Why Rick Santorum would be great news for the AIDS fight in Africa.
BY JACK C. CHOW | FEBRUARY 28, 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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