Mitt Romney

10 Foreign-Policy Flashpoints in the GOP Platform

The Republicans will present a united front at the convention, but divisive issues are bubbling below the surface.

BY URI FRIEDMAN | AUGUST 24, 2012

Pipe Dreams

Why Mitt Romney can't free America from Middle East oil.

BY MICHAEL LEVI | AUGUST 23, 2012

What’s $2 Trillion Among Friends?

Romney criticizes Obama's defense plan, but the real problem is his own running mate.

BY LAWRENCE KORB, MAX HOFFMAN, ROBERT WARD | AUGUST 20, 2012

Obama Has Been Great for Israel

Anyone who tells you otherwise is distorting reality.

BY COLIN H. KAHL | AUGUST 16, 2012

The Incredible Shrinking GOP Foreign-Policy Expert

Mitt Romney's choice of Paul Ryan to be his vice president isn't surprising -- it's sadly indicative of the lack of worldly Republicans today.

BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | AUGUST 14, 2012

Budget-Waving Contest

Romney's ridiculous fight about who's got the bigger military doesn't worry Obama. But should it?

BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | AUGUST 8, 2012

Uncultured

Mitt Romney don't know much about economic history.

BY DARON ACEMOGLU, JAMES A. ROBINSON | AUGUST 1, 2012

Too Much Baggage

Mitt Romney needs to fire his foreign-policy team. Yesterday.

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | JULY 31, 2012

The Angry Lightweight

What's worse than not having a coherent foreign policy? Mouthing off about it.

BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | JULY 31, 2012

A Candidate Abroad

Mitt Romney's whirlwind tour proved the GOP nominee still has some things to learn on foreign policy.

JULY 31, 2012

People of the Book

What's behind the strange love affair between Mormons and Israel?

BY OREN KESSLER | JULY 30, 2012

Mitt Meets the Brits

London gets a crash course in the 2012 election.

BY ALISTAIR BURNETT | JULY 26, 2012

Mitt's Pilgrimage

Can Romney swing American Jewish voters to the GOP ticket with his trip to Israel?

BY OREN KESSLER | JULY 25, 2012

Justify My Love

How the Middle East is like Madonna.

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | JULY 24, 2012

The Innocents Abroad

The 'tradition' of American presidential challengers demonstrating their foreign-policy chops with a big international trip is no tradition at all.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JULY 24, 2012

Shipping Away Jobs and Common Sense

In demonizing outsourcing, both Obama and Romney are playing a stupid political game with the U.S. economy.

BY DANIEL ALTMAN | JULY 13, 2012

The Romney-Cheney Doctrine

Mitt Romney's a big fan of George W. Bush's vice president. And that's a worrying sign for America's foreign policy.

BY ADAM SMITH | JULY 12, 2012

Insourcing

America's real outsourcing crisis isn't the one Obama and Romney are arguing about. It's the talented immigrants who are prevented from setting up shop in America.

BY VIVEK WADHWA | JULY 10, 2012

Making Enemies from Friends

Hey, Mitt: Russia's not quite America's No. 1 geopolitical foe just yet, but keep up that talk and Vladimir Putin will be happy to oblige.

BY JAMES TRAUB | JULY 6, 2012

Can't We All Just Not Get Along?

Why the push for bipartisan consensus in foreign policy is a dumb idea.

BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | JUNE 22, 2012

'American Exceptionalism': A Short History

How did a phrase initially used dismissively by Joseph Stalin become shorthand for who loves America more?

BY URI FRIEDMAN | JULY/AUGUST 2012

Swing Producers

Ten states where the energy debate could decide the U.S. election in November.

BY LOGAN BAYROFF | JUNE 12, 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

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

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

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

Obama's Jimmy Carter Moment

North Korea's impending nuclear test is just the latest illustration of Barack Obama's weakness and naiveté abroad.

BY RICHARD WILLIAMSON | APRIL 26, 2012