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.

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

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

The swift fall of Kabul recalls the ignominious fall of Saigon in 1975. Beyond the local consequences—widespread reprisals, harsh repression of women and girls, and massive refugee flows—America’s st…

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