Mitt Romney

What the Frack?!

How the 2012 election could come down to one thing: coal.

BY DAVID ROBERTS | OCTOBER 16, 2012

Uniformity

Why are all these advocacy groups aligning themselves with the military?

BY ROSA BROOKS | OCTOBER 11, 2012

Enough Already

When it comes to Israel, neither Obama nor Romney is as good or bad as American Jews think.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | OCTOBER 9, 2012

The Battle for Mitt Romney's Soul

Which faction of the Republican Party is winning? We asked three smart conservatives to weigh in.

BY DANIELLE PLETKA, JOSHUA TREVIÑO, JUSTIN LOGAN | OCTOBER 9, 2012

A Truly Credible Military Threat to Iran

The Israelis and the Americans are zeroing in on a strike option that has a real chance of deterring the mullahs -- and defusing Mitt Romney's attacks.

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | OCTOBER 8, 2012

Declinism Is America and Mitt Can Too

Doomsday prophesying is a favorite American pastime, but Mitt Romney wants no part of it (anymore).

BY TY MCCORMICK | OCTOBER 8, 2012

The FP Survey: The Economy

If we're ever going to get out of this slump, what will it take? We asked more than 60 leading economists to tell us.

NOVEMBER 2012

Better Late than Never

How naive self-confidence led Barack Obama astray, before prudence brought him back.

BY JAMES TRAUB | OCTOBER 5, 2012

The Election Is Over

It's time to start worrying about 2013, because the Obama team clearly isn't.

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | OCTOBER 1, 2012

Mitt Romney's Terrible Wall Street Journal Op-Ed

It's official: The Republican nominee has no new ideas for the Middle East.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | OCTOBER 1, 2012

Will the Real Mitt Romney Please Stand Up?

The Republican candidate gave us a tantalizing hint this week of what his foreign policy might actually look like -- but does he have the guts to actually do what we think he thinks?

BY JAMES TRAUB | SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Peaceniks in Palestine

The PLO’s U.S. ambassador slams Mitt Romney’s leaked comments on the Middle East.

BY MAEN RASHID AREIKAT | SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Aim High

Guess who's in Romney's 47 percent?

BY GORDON ADAMS | SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Dirty Bomb, Muddy Thinking

Mitt Romney screws up nuclear weapons 101.

BY JOE CIRINCIONE | SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Handle With Care

Can Mitt Romney be trusted with the Middle East?

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Yes, Russia Is Our Top Geopolitical Foe

Why Mitt Romney is right about Moscow.

BY JOHN ARQUILLA | SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Red Lines over Iran

Mitt Romney has adopted Benjamin Netanyahu's dangerous timetable for war.

BY SAMUEL R. BERGER | SEPTEMBER 17, 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

Coasting

Was the U.S. Navy really better in 1917?

BY JAMES HOLMES | SEPTEMBER 7, 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

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

Pretty Vacant

After three empty days in Tampa, the Republican Party seems out of ideas on how to run America's foreign policy.

BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | AUGUST 31, 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

Romney's Mad-Libs Foreign Policy

International affairs is serious business -- not a game of fill-in-the-blanks.

BY JOHN NORRIS | AUGUST 29, 2012

Leading from the Front

It's time for some straight talk about the world, Mr. President.

BY JOHN MCCAIN | AUGUST 28, 2012

Will Romney Discover His Inner Nixon?

The coming GOP fight between realists and neocons.

BY JACOB HEILBRUNN | AUGUST 27, 2012

What Would Ronald Reagan Do?

Mitt Romney shouldn't shy away from a fight on foreign policy. He can win it.

BY JAMIE M. FLY | AUGUST 27, 2012