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Carlos Barria / Reuters

Obama’s Former Middle East Adviser: We Should Have Bombed Assad

Philip Gordon says the administration did just enough in Syria to perpetuate the conflict without resolving it.

  • Jeffrey Goldberg
April 20, 2016
Fire and smoke rise from city buildings.
Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters

Obama Promised to End America’s Wars—Has He?

The president’s military record, by the numbers

  • Edward Delman
March 30, 2016
Yuri Gripas / Reuters

In Praise of Political Reporters

  • Matt Thompson
March 29, 2016
Rebecca Cook / Reuters

Obama on What Trump and Cruz Get Wrong About Islam

The struggle against jihadist terrorism isn’t the same as the struggle against communism—and it’s dangerous to conflate them.

  • Jeffrey Goldberg
March 29, 2016
Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

Are European Countries Really ‘Free Riders’?

Obama’s recent comments on the trans-Atlantic alliance neglect what it has achieved recently—and what it still needs to do.

  • Simond de Galbert
March 24, 2016
Michael Kappeler / Reuters

How Obama Views the Men and Women Who (Also) Rule the World

A rough guide to the president’s relationships with other leaders

  • Jeffrey Goldberg
March 18, 2016

Is Obama a Hadrian or a Jovian?

  • Chris Bodenner
March 15, 2016
Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

The Obama Doctrine, Cont'd

  • Chris Bodenner
March 14, 2016

'No, Mr. Obama, We Are Not the Free Riders'

  • Krishnadev Calamur
March 14, 2016

Obama Confronts the Joker of the Middle East, Cont'd

  • Uri Friedman
March 14, 2016
Lucas Jackson / Reuters

The Obama Administration's Drone-Strike Dissembling

Debunking John Brennan’s claim that “the president requires near-certainty of no collateral damage” to allow a drone killing to go forward.

  • Conor Friedersdorf
March 14, 2016
Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

Why Credibility Matters

It’s not just a Washington fetish, as Obama suggests.

  • Stephen Sestanovich
March 14, 2016
Kevin Lamarque / Reuters

The Disappointment of Barack Obama, Cont'd

  • David Frum
March 14, 2016
Tim Wimborne / Reuters

Obama: Fighting Wars He Believes Unwinnable

What’s behind the president’s inaction?

  • Kori Schake
March 14, 2016
Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP

Barack Obama’s Revolution in Foreign Policy

When you think you’re the smartest person in the room, it’s tempting to make up your own grand strategy.

  • Niall Ferguson
March 13, 2016
Chris Helgren / Reuters

The End of the U.S.-Dominated Order in the Middle East

Obama has prioritized global goals over regional ones.

  • Martin Indyk
March 13, 2016
Ammar Abdullah / Reuters

The Slipperiest Slope of Them All

An American president who rejected the notion of a “global war on terror” has now launched one.

  • Tamara Cofman Wittes
March 12, 2016
Anadolu Agency / AP

So About That Special Relationship ...

  • Krishnadev Calamur
March 11, 2016

How to Get the President to Open Up

Jeffrey Goldberg on Obama’s on-the-record bluntness in The Atlantic’s April 2016 cover story

  • Greyson Korhonen
March 11, 2016
Reuters

How Russia Saw the ‘Red Line’ Crisis

Did Obama’s refusal to strike Syria really give Putin the green light in Ukraine?

  • Julia Ioffe
March 11, 2016
Carlos Barria / Reuters

How Iraq Warped Obama’s Worldview

The president is certain he’s right. Is that what we want in a leader?

  • Shadi Hamid
March 11, 2016
Amr Dalsh / Reuters

The Middle East Is Unraveling—and Obama Offers Words

An accounting of the president’s actions and inactions

  • Hisham Melhem
March 11, 2016

Obama Confronts the Joker of the Middle East, Cont'd

  • Uri Friedman
March 10, 2016
Carlos Barria / Reuters

The Disappointment of Barack Obama

He admits one major mistake: not making sufficient allowances for how unreasonable other people are.

  • David Frum
March 10, 2016
Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

Obama’s Biggest Gamble

Hint: It doesn’t involve Syria.

  • Andrew J. Bacevich
March 10, 2016
Noor Khamis / Reuters

Obama Is Not a Realist

He’s an isolationist with drones and special-operations forces.

  • Josef Joffe
March 10, 2016
Reuters / Pete Souza / White House

One President’s Stand Against the Washington Herd

Obama is seeking to redefine “strength” and “power.”

  • Derek Chollet
March 10, 2016

Ben Rhodes Explains Where Obama Stands on Cuba

The Deputy National-Security Advisor speaks about the United States’ new ties with Cuba and its impact on American foreign policy.

  • Daniel Lombroso
March 10, 2016
Andrew Kelly / Reuters

Obama Confronts the Joker of the Middle East

  • Uri Friedman
March 10, 2016
Carlos Barria / Reuters

How the Kobayashi Maru Explains Obama's Foreign Policy

  • Yoni Appelbaum
March 10, 2016

Obama's 'Red Line' That Wasn't

Inside the president’s last-minute decision not to bomb Syria in 2013

  • Daniel Lombroso
  • Jeffrey Goldberg
March 10, 2016
Ian Langsdon / Reuters / The Atlantic

Obama on the World

How the president thinks about foreign policy, in his own words

  • Andrew McGill
March 10, 2016
Ruven Afanador

Portrait of a Presidential Mind

Reflections on Jeffrey Goldberg’s interview with President Obama and our April issue

  • James Bennet
March 10, 2016
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