Former House Speaker and prospective presidential candidate Newt Gingrich urges a more bipartisan approach to solving problems from Iraq to homeland security and hints he may enter the race late this year.

The next U.S. president will have to confront a deteriorating U.S.-Russia relationship.

Pakistan’s domestic crisis has emerged as an important barometer of the foreign policy credentials of U.S. presidential candidates.

A look at how the Presidential and Vice Presidential Candidates propose to solve the problems afflicting the banking and financial sectors.

U.S. policy towards Iran is a major campaign issue, given the country’s defiance of UN demands for transparency in its nuclear program. Candidates’ stances run the gamut from considering direct military action to isolating Iran.

Homeland security is likely to generate considerable discussion in the 2008 presidential race on topics such as the USA Patriot Act, border fences, and FEMA reforms after Hurricane Katrina.

The war in Iraq has remained a top concern of American voters in the 2008 presidential campaign season. Candidates are divided between supporting the president's strategy to surge more troops into central Iraq versus establishing a timetable to eventually pull out U.S. forces,with some residual units left in the region.

Democratic presidential candidates have much more readily embraced plans for federally mandated action to curb carbon emissions, and combat climate change.

Debate over issues of fair trade, enforcement of labor standards, and trade policy towards developing economies was intensifying as the 2008 presidential campaign unfolded.

Bill Richardson, President-elect Barack Obama's nominee for commerce secretary, lays out a new policy agenda for the U.S. relationship with Latin America in this essay. Richardson says the Bush administration "all but ignored" Latin America. He calls on the incoming administration to engage all Latin American countries diplomatically, among other policy recommendations.

The Hoover Institution's David Brady, Douglas Rivers and Laurel Harbridge describe a shift in the U.S. electorate toward the Democratic Party.

Demographer Joseph Chamie examines one of the foremost foreign policy challenges facing the next U.S. president-- the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Chamie offers four possible scenarios for demographic trends in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Pakistani journalist Imtiaz Ali says the Taliban has gained from the lack of schools and jobs in Pakistan's tribal region. He urges the United States to "be more discerning in where its money goes and how it's spent" in the region.

CQPolitics presents interactive maps of the United States based on polling figures for the 2008 presidential election.

Der Spiegel interviews neo-conservative scholar Robert Kagan, a foreign policy adviser to the McCain campaign. Kagan discusses the Bush legacy and the foreign policy challenges facing the next administration.

The Pew Center on the States offers a comprehensive look at the rules, technology, registration figures and issues to watch in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Politico's interactive map of the U.S. swing states in the 2008 presidential election.

The New York Times looks at the political influence and activism of young American war veterans.

The National Journal looks at the Senate seats up for grabs in the November 2008 elections.

The National Journal assesses the November 2008 House elections, looking particularly at the seats likely to switch party control.