WASHINGTON — A detailed official history of the U.S. effort to reconstruct Iraq after Saddam Hussein’s overthrow in 2003 blamed its failings on ‘‘blinkered and disjointed’’ prewar planning, a deadly ...

Don’t skip the chapter after the Civil War. But the notion that Reconstruction was a terrible mistake, a rape of the South by the unscrupulous and the vengeful that could only be redressed by letting ...

Reconstruction funding for a devastated region must be paired with fundamental governance reform. The world has long marveled at the Brady bonds’ ability to turn near-certain defaults into structured, ...