Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney wrote this op-ed on health care, published in USA Today on March 22, 2012.

Congressman Paul Ryan, Chairman of the House Budget Committee, presented this document, "The Path to Prosperity: a Blueprint for American Renewal", on behalf of the House Budget Committee on March 20, 2012.

In an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal, Chairman of the House Budget Committee Paul Ryan (R-WI) stresses the advantages of the budget proposed by the House of Representatives over the one proposed by President Obama.

With the world awash in change, leading voices in the GOP have begun to suggest that it's time to sharpen the rhetoric on foreign policy, write Alexander Burns and Maggie Haberman for Politico.

Thierry de Montbrial, Yasushi Kudo, and Igor Yurgens, the heads of three major international policy institutions, give French, Japanese, and Russian perspectives on how the world views the United States.

Leslie H. Gelb says President Obama will wait until after the election to speed up U.S. troop withdrawals from Afghanistan.

Julia E. Sweig discusses Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney and why his candidacy has struggled to gain traction.

The winner of the 2012 presidential election will continue to rely on the UN as a foreign policy tool to serve U.S. interests, but navigating the U.S.-UN relationship will be one of the president's biggest foreign policy challenges, says CFR's Stewart M. Patrick.

Peter Orszag argues that U.S. business leaders who want better economic policy should work to get more moderates elected to Congress.

Alexander Burns writes that polling numbers are often contradictory, with irrationality transcending both party lines and opinions of the president.

Politico's Josh Gerstein questions the left's quiet reaction to Obama's military policies, putting them in perspective with those of George W. Bush.

The U.S. strategy for competing with China, the reclaiming of manufacturing jobs, is written to appeal to middle- and working-class Americans. Hannah Gurman argues that this link is tenuous at best, helping already-profiting corporations without seeing the benefits trickle down to the voting bloc.

Mitt Romney has vowed to step up military spending as a corrollary to his Iran policy. At the Fiscal Times, Merrill Goozner scrutinizes the fiscal ramifications of Romney's plans.

Raymond Lu and Michael D. Swaine argue that presidential candidate Mitt Romney's rhetoric about China points to a direction of diplomatic neglect and military overreach, while leaving important strategic questions unanswered.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum published this op-ed on energy policy on Ricochet.com on March 10, 2012.

The 2012 U.S. presidential election is a low priority for Brazilians, says Matias Spektor. He says that Brazil does have a stake in the economic recovery of the United States, but many Brazilians think the policies in the United States being put forth won't work.

Sebastian Mallaby considers how the advent of smart supercomputers raises tough questions about inequality and jobs.

President Obama gave these remarks at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas on March 9, 2012.

President Obama gave these remarks at a campaign event in Houston, Texas on March 9, 2012.

The winner of the 2012 U.S. presidential election will risk "unpleasant surprises" if he fails to pay sufficient attention to Africa, says CFR's John Campbell.