Epstein Secrets

The twenty-first century began with a fraudulent Presidential election. And this is in the luckiest of nations. Elsewhere—in Russia, in Hungary, in Zimbabwe—the fragility of democratic aspiration is a brutal fact of history. To revisit the Arab Spring, one year later, is to celebrate popular awakening

ground was about to start enriching uranium. Karim Sadjadpour, an Iran expert with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, says that senior White House staff asked during that time period whether Iranian regime elements might be trying to goad Israel into launching airstrikes. "The White House," Sa

ead to problem solving. There may be cases where an actor is so bad and incorrigible that the only useful step is to isolate them (think Mugabe in Zimbabwe or apartheid South Africa.). But it is almost never an either/or proposition: Iran and North Korea both show how sanctions and diplomacy can be emp

fact, it's the Russian's word that can't be trusted, not America's. The strikes on regime targets that Obama planned last September could serve as the White House's notice that as far as the United States is concerned the deal's off. Destroying the air force that Assad has used to drop barrel bombs on innocent

Gangs, Other Powerful Forces • Kenya Hits Pause on Police Deployment to Haiti • Top Navalny Aide Attacked With Hammer Outside Home in Lithuania • Zimbabwe, After Expelling U.S. Officials, Accuses Them of Promoting 'Regime Change' OTHER WASHINGTON NEWS • High-Stakes Rematch Is Set as Biden, Trump Clinc

r Jury Award in E. Jean Carroll Defamation Case • Texas Tells Biden New Immigrant Processing Facility Is 'An Expensive Band-Aid on a Gunshot Wound' • White House Says Five American Hostages Now Held by Hamas After Itay Chen Death BIG PICTURE • New York Times • Wall Street Journal • Washington Post • Finan