Nate Silver offers the following logic: winning Florida is essentially for Romney but not Obama; Obama has more paths to victory than Romne...

I'm interested in the reactions to Romney's "secret video". My initial thoughts on it were not the same as most. I was fir...

Ta-Nahisi Coates has been (rightly) given a lot of praise for his thoughtful essay on how race relations has affected Obama's presid...

A few weeks ago Dan Drezner called me "curiously lazy" for writing that we shouldn't pay much attention to what presidential...

Like everyone else, Dan Drezner picks up on the fact that Obama's early foreign policy reading list, erm, leaves something to be desired...

Instant classic : WASHINGTON—According to a poll released Tuesday, nearly 20 percent of U.S. citizens now believe Barack Obama is a cactus, ...

Yes, there was the pie-in-the-sky "double exports in 5 years" talk during the SOTU address, but in a meeting with House Republican...

Wow. I voted for Obama for president, and I assume that Ryan Avent did too, but we must have had very different views of what we were buyin...

What the matrix says is that if you look at today's American politics, you have to either support central planning or support a politica...

During a discussion of the use of game theory in IR last week, one of my students asked me "How do we know whether we're in a game ...

I'm a bit late to the party, I know (I've been busy), but apparently there's a trade skirmish going on that could escalate. I d...

Kenneth Waltz famously claimed that states are "functionally undifferentiated" and that the internal characteristics of states (e...

During the presidential campaign last fall, many observers as well as candidate Obama himself, predicted that his election would go a long w...

There is no doubt that Obama is media-savvy, so when he chooses a somewhat curious venue for a major speech, it is worth examining why. His ...

This is from Conor Clarke over at the Atlantic. Pretty interesting post: Have you heard that the United States is headed toward socialism? ...