President Obama gave these remarks to the troops in Afghanistan at Baghram Air Base on May 1, 2012.

From both the right and left, there has been a dramatic disconnect between President Obama's record and the public perception of his leadership: despite his demonstrated willingness to use force, neither side regards him as the warrior president he is, writes Peter L. Bergen.

President Obama gave these remarks on May 1, 2012 from the Baghram Air Base in Afghanistan.

Sebastian Mallaby explains how post-election gridlock could either send the U.S. economy over the edge of a "fiscal cliff" into recession or lead it down a risky road of more debt and downgrades.

U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden gave these remarks on foreign policy in New York on April 26, 2012.

The Chinese leadership is following the U.S. presidential campaign very closely, says Jia Qingguo, a leading American studies scholar, but he notes that a new president is not expected to significantly change U.S. policy toward China.

Peter Orszag works through various approaches U.S. policymakers could take to head off fiscal catastrophe as a storm of tax increases, spending cuts, and a debt ceiling standoff looms at the end of the year.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney gave these remarks in New Hampshire on April 24, 2012, the night of the Republican primaries in New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Delaware.

Gone are the days when the United States led major powers in the decisions that ruled the planet, writes Ian Bremmer at the Daily Beast. Could Obama or Romney make the most of our new reduced role in international affairs?

Blake Hounshell writes that despite Romney's denunciations of Obama's Afghanistan strategy, he would pursue the same course of action. The U.S.-Afghanistan policy will not change with the election.

Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney finds himself in a policy conundrum on Afghanistan issues: His views are at times identical to Obama's, and at other times contradictory, write the editors of Bloomberg View.

Patrick Cronin says that Asian security issues have barely been discussed in the U.S. presidential campaign. How can a diminished U.S. military meet challenges in the region?

Michael Kinsley suggests that we can't discount luck, as well as other factors, from the definition of success; this is something that Mitt Romney should keep in mind, instead of defending himself by saying America resents success.

Mitt Romney wants the United States to get much tougher with Iran and to end what a top adviser calls President Barack Obama's "Mother, may I?" consensus-seeking foreign policy.

In this Congressional Research Service report, public finance analyst Margot L. Crandall-Hollick provides an overview of the expiring tax provisions as well as a discussion of the policy debates surrounding them.

According to the Romney campaign, the president has declared hostilities against just about everything Americans hold dear--and the Obamas are firing back, writes John Heilemann in New York magazine.

Obama's recent foreign policy has focused on asking for space to delay or stop history until after the 2012 elections. But Jackson Diehl points out that the problem with making space is that it tends to get filled by others.

Sebastian Mallaby argues that, by focusing on a "Buffett rule," President Obama is squandering his chance to sell voters on meaningful tax reform.

Michael W. Hodin states, "Now that the World Health Organization has stepped up and declared both Alzheimer's and aging populations as defining challenges of our era, it is time for our presidential candidates to also get serious and honest about health policy fit for this century's demographics truths."

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum wrote this op-ed on Jerusalem published in the New York Daily News on April 9, 2012.