Wars are fought not only on the battlefield but also in domestic political debates and in histories written after the fact. In the case of the US invasion of Iraq 20 years ago, we are still in this final phase, seeking an elusive consensus about the war’s legacy.

Annual reports on the health of democracy this year reaffirmed an ongoing trend of decline, which has occurred alongside a less heralded but related stalling of women’s political participation. Given…

America is one country and two nations. They will have to coexist; whether they can work together remains to be seen.

The passing of America’s preeminent foreign-policy thinker and practitioner marks the end of an era. Throughout his long and extraordinarily influential career, Henry Kissinger built a legacy that Am…

Europeans consider vast U.S. subsidies for cars, clean energy, and semiconductors a danger to their economies.

The United States should stop treating the region as secondary to the rest of the Middle East.