Barely 13 months from now our current president is more than likely to be our next one too.

The reasons tell us much about ourselves and the current state of our politics. But the driving factor powering Obama's reelection prospects -- perverse though it may be --...

Has Barack Obama become George W. Bush on foreign policy? If the president doesn't catch a break on Libya, he may well be on a glide path to regime change, in yet another indication of how similar he's become to a president whose policies he wanted to avoid.

Of all...

Means and ends: The absence of clarity in our Libya policy survived the No-Fly Zone plus debate; it won't survive the debate over arms for the rebels. Our stated goal -- protection of civilians -- cannot be achieved over time without accomplishing our unstated objective: the removal of Gaddafi through...

How did we get here? At the beginning of his second year, a potentially transformative and historic president finds himself a diminished figure knocked around by Republicans and trapped by his own overly grandiose goals.

The answer to the question is nine parts Obama's misreading of the America he...

Emma Goldman, the Russian anarchist famously quipped that if elections really changed anything, they'd be illegal.

I couldn't help think about Goldman as I contemplate the outcome of Israel's elections. This electoral moment--unlike previous election contests--has a strangely anti-climactic character. These elections came up quickly, there were no debates,...