The Economist weighs in on the debate surrounding president Obama's diplomacy. Has he been clever, or weak? Does he have the strategy and the will to use force to fulfill his promises? The coming weeks, according to the Economist, may likely be his litmus test.

As the title implies, Vanity Fair provides a fascinating chronological look into the Bush administration through the personal accounts of domestic and foreign officials, and councilors to the President.

This Op-Ed examines the use of the word 'liberalism' in American politics.

Russell Baker's New York Review of Books article evaluates four books about Franklin Delano Roosevelt, drawing parallels between the leadership of the Depression Era and today.

TIME examines Obama-Biden transition team's possible selection of Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) as secretary of state.

Journalist Bruce Stokes looks at foreign policy challenges facing President-elect Barack Obama, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and an American public that has "turned sharply against international engagement on a range of issues that American voters once supported and on which foreign publics expect action."

This article discusses Nicolas Sarkozy's presidency, calling him "The Hyperpresident."

Fareed Zakaria of Newsweek discusses the need to move U.S. foreign policy beyond reliance on fear and toward a more rational outlook.  

A review of the recently-released collection of Ronald Reagan's diaries.

In this National Magazine Award nominee for excellence in public interest, Seymour Hersh questions whether the "damaged" Bush administration is more or less likely to go to war with Iran.

In a New York Times Op-Ed piece, Jorge G. Castañeda offers a way for Felipe Calderon to ease tensions in Mexico.

Peter Wehner systematically discredits allegations made by Bush critics and antiwar critics.Wehner examines and delegitimizes allegations that United States people were misled when convinced to enter the war in Iraq, the Bush administration pressured intelligence agencies, and Saddam posed a limited threat because weapons of mass destruction were never found.

In this National Magazine Award nominee for excellence in public interest, Seymour Hersh discusses the possibility of the Bush administration going to war with Iran.

CFR experts offer their analysis of President George W. Bush's final State of the Union address.

In President Obama's upcoming counterterrorism speech, Robert Chesney and Matthew Waxman explain that the president should focus on three areas that his administration has not followed through in a serious way: closing Guantanamo, working with Congress to put forceful counterterrorism actions on sound legal footing, and making targeted killing more transparent.

Michael Spence outlines the conflicting objectives that President Obama and the U.S. Congress must reconcile as they negotiate a new federal budget.

Peter Orszag argues that switching to the chained consumer price index for calculating Social Security cost-of-living adjustments will not make as much of a difference as many seem to think.

"The U.S., by what it does and how it does it, ought to set and reinforce a norm that the use of armed drones should be exceptional," argues Richard N. Haass.