The challenge that is facing President Obama now is how to regain the ground lost in foreign affairs and shaping U.S. national security policy.

This CRS report investigates what impact, if any, foreign aid dollars are having, and whether foreign aid programs are achieving their intended objectives.

Texas offers more incentives to attract business than any other state, but questions remain about who benefits more, the companies or the people of Texas.

Hussein Agha and Robert Malley dissect the shifting alliances and tumult of the modern day Arab world.

TIME editors sat with Egypt's president for an exclusive interview, his first since helping to broker the Gaza cease-fire.

Politico provides a guide to the dance of getting to a deal on the fiscal cliff.

Egypt today is a different country from the one encountered by previous U.S. administrations, and as a result, the Obama administration's foreign policy strategy approach has to change.

In picking his national security team Obama will have to choose between following conventional wisdom or forgoing it to make his own choices, writes Foreign Policy.

Tom Rogan discusses foreign policy initiatives that should be taken by the Obama administration over the next for years in this Huffington Post blog.

Conflict in the Middle East could change the foreign policy course of President Obama's second term in office.

Joseph Lieberman's retirement will impact the clout of the bipartisan trio, which included Senators Lieberman, John McCain, and Lindsey Graham, that once dominated congressional debate on foreign policy, says the New York Times.

Hillary Clinton's statement that she will not stay on as Secretary of State in President Obama's second term has unleashed speculation about her plans for the future.

The sharpening partisan divide within United States politics is routinely affecting foreign policy, far more than in years past.

The Boyuan Foundation, headed by former investment banker He Di, is possibly the most ambitious, radical, and consequential think tank in China, according to Foreign Policy.

Politico answers five questions about the fight over the Tax Code currently in contest in government.

A series of incidents over the last few years have made pipeline safety in America a national concern.

American diplomacy has changed dramatically in the past few decades, and has taken on a more conflict-prone direction, according to this New York Times piece.

Osama Suleiman, a Syrian immigrant to Britain and head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, has taken on the task of counting the death toll in Syria through hours of videos shot by activists and journalists in the country.

Chronic mismanagement by local governments has left a number of California cities teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.

An enumeration of the five most plausible scenarios for the outcome of the fiscal cliff crisis.