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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

The Ground Truth from Benghazi

The politicians in Washington are beating each other up over the Benghazi consulate attack. But they don't seem to be paying much attention to the evidence from the scene of the crime.

BY CHRISTOPHER STEPHEN | OCTOBER 16, 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

Mad Libs: Economy Edition

With a presidential race focused on the ailing U.S. economy, Foreign Policy asked the experts to help fill in the blanks.

NOVEMBER 2012

Peter King Must Go

The chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security is asleep on the job, or worse, too busy picking on Muslims to notice the real terrorist danger to America: lone extremists with guns.

BY SAHIL BHATIA | AUGUST 10, 2012

Code Red

How Capitol Hill politicking has undermined cybersecurity--again. 

BY JAMES ANDREW LEWIS | AUGUST 1, 2012

Hard of Hearing

Why the House's attempt to save defense spending might flop.

BY WINSLOW T. WHEELER | JULY 19, 2012

British r Coming. Pls RT!

What if Twitter had been around during the American Revolution?

JULY 3, 2012

Gunpoint Stimulus

Defense contractors are trying to frighten Americans into believing that Pentagon budget cuts will destroy the economy. It's bogus.

BY LAWRENCE J. KORB, ALEX ROTHMAN, MAX HOFFMAN | JULY 2, 2012

Abandoning Sergei Magnitsky

Why is Hillary Clinton giving up on human rights in Russia?

BY JAMISON FIRESTONE | JUNE 21, 2012

A Failure to Communicate

Why is the Obama administration using its radio station to attack the Cuban Catholic Church?        

BY FULTON T. ARMSTRONG | JUNE 1, 2012

In the Crosshairs

Why controlling the international arms trade can help to build stable societies.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | MAY 22, 2012

Status Update

With the stroke of a pen, a new bill in Congress could slash the number of Palestinian refugees -- and open a world of controversy.

BY JONATHAN SCHANZER | MAY 21, 2012

Lost at Sea

Can the Obama administration succeed where its predecessors failed on the Law of the Sea treaty?

BY JAMES KRASKA | MAY 16, 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

Some Good News from Afghanistan

With a new partnership agreement, the United States has a chance to wind down its mission with its interests intact.

BY ZALMAY KHALILZAD | APRIL 23, 2012

Power Grab

President Obama's real constitutional overreach was Libya, not health care.

BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | MARCH 28, 2012

The World in Photos This Week

A tragedy in Toulouse, spring has sprung, and a general testifies.

MARCH 23, 2012

Lessons for America from the Global War on Sleaze

When it comes to fighting corruption, it turns out there’s a lot that the U.S. can learn from developing countries.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | MARCH 20, 2012

Why Washington Is the Syrian Opposition's Next Battlefront

Syria’s opposition faces an uphill battle in its efforts to win backing from U.S. policymakers.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Rude Awakening

Promoting democracy in places like Egypt or Iraq is about changing the status quo. So why are we so surprised when it turns out that not everyone is in favor?

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The LWOT: Tarek Mehanna convicted on all charges

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BY JENNIFER ROWLAND | JANUARY 3, 2012

The World According to Ron Paul

Republicans are freaked out about what a libertarian isolationist in the White House would do to American power -- but not all Democrats are.

BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | DECEMBER 23, 2011

What Libyan Rebels Could Teach Obama About the Rule of Law

Why is the United States entrenching the same kind of military detention system that Arab revolutionaries have given their lives to overthrow?

BY TOM MALINOWSKI | DECEMBER 20, 2011

The LWOT: Government approves military custody for terrorist suspects

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BY JENNIFER ROWLAND | DECEMBER 16, 2011

The LWOT: Senate, House edit detainee provision in defense bill

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BY JENNIFER ROWLAND | DECEMBER 14, 2011

The LWOT: AP report describes secret CIA prison in Romania

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BY JENNIFER ROWLAND | DECEMBER 9, 2011

The LWOT: Senate votes to keep detainee provisions

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BY JENNIFER ROWLAND | DECEMBER 2, 2011

The LWOT: Norway's anti-terrorism laws tested in conspiracy case

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BY JENNIFER ROWLAND | NOVEMBER 18, 2011

The LWOT: Alleged Cole bomb planner arraigned at Gitmo

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BY JENNIFER ROWLAND | NOVEMBER 11, 2011