Obama's potential voters might not judge him only by his success on catching the al-Qaeda mastermind, but also by the way he has been handling the American economy, writes Scott Clement.

Ryan Lizza writes about the making of Obama's post-post-partisan presidency, referencing hundreds of pages of internal White House memos showing Obama grappling with the unpleasant choices of government.

In the Wall Street Journal, George P. Shultz writes that unaccountable White House aides are a product of a broken cabinet-nomination process, and this is not the form of government the Founders intended.

In this New York Times Op-Ed, Ross Douthat examines President Obama's handling of the Egyptian revolution and determines what it reveals about his foreign policy instincts.

As President Barack Obama nears the halfway point in his four-year term, PolitiFact.com compiled a tally of campaign promises and found that he kept many more vows than he broke. Writing for Reuters, Alister Bull, highlights the larger promises.

Writing for the National Journal, four expert environmental bloggers outline what issues they expect President Obama to discuss, and what issues he should discuss.

In this New York Times Op-Ed, Paul Krugman argues that it is a misdiagnosis to say that America's economic problem is a lack of competitiveness

This National Public Radio article argues that the President's State of the Union Address will focus on job creation, while also extending an olive branch to the business community.

The Washington Post recently asked business leaders, policy experts and others to name an issue that President Obama should include in his Jan. 25 State of the Union address.

Mark Trumbull of the Christian Science Monitor believes that the speed of government spending cuts are likely to be major point of departure between Obama, who gives the State of the Union address on Tuesday, and congressional Republicans.

The New York Time's Michael Shear reports a number of policy suggestions from a variety of interest groups for President Obama's upcoming State of the Union Address.

A stagnant economy. Declining American influence. Dictators on the march abroad. And a more Republican Congress coming soon. Barack Obama is in big trouble. But it's never too late. Foreign Policy has a plan, 14 in fact, for how the president can find his mojo again.

George Packer comments on Obama's foreign policy during his first year in office.

Increasingly over the past year Mr Obama was portrayed overseas as weak, indecisive and ineffective. According to Gideon Rachman of FT, that is now likely to change - at least for a while - in the wake of the passage of healthcare reform.

Stephen M. Walt of Foreign Policy argues that Obama's healthcare victory won't help him advance his foreign policy agenda.

In the New York Times Magazine, Peter Baker discusses the challenges that President Obama faces as the new administration fights the war on terror.

Clive Crook argues that the main dissapointment of President Obama's first year was his deferral to partisan politics and inability to engage Republicans and Democrats alike.

George Friedman compares the first year of President Obama's foreign policy to that of former President Reagan. He contends that Obama's strategy has been "enigmatic" early on and will need to define his policy in the months ahead.

Presentation Speech for the Nobel Peace Prize of Barack Obama, by Thorbjørn Jagland, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, in Oslo.

The Times Online says that to earn his Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama must follow words with action.