Epstein Secrets

th change; it would make its peace with the status quo, renewing its partnership with friendly autocrats even as it engaged the hostile regimes in Damascus and Tehran. The United States was to remain on the Kabul hook for a while longer, but the greater Middle East would be left to its Furies. When a

not do terribly well in the new era. A zero-sum world may summon up rather darker forces. Gideon Rachman is chief foreign-affairs commentator for the Financial Times and author of Zero-Sum Future: American Power in an Age of Anxiety, available in paperback on Feb. 4. Article 6 The Christian Science Monitor Can

76. It was not a warm relationship, but it was predictable, particularly in the 1990s: Israel allowed Syria a free hand in Lebanon in exchange for Damascus limiting Hezbollah's actions. Lebanon was not exactly stable, but its instability hewed to a predictable framework. That understanding broke down w

is a U.K.-based writer and author of the upcoming book "Nuclear Iran: The Birth of an Atomic State." His work has appeared in the New Statesman and Financial Times, among other publications. Article 3. The Washington Post U.N. chief should boycott Tehran conference Editorial August 15 -- THE UNITED NATIONS

i, the former White House communications director, says he was wrong about Trump all along in an op-ed for today's newspaper: "This isn't a Road to Damascus moment; my concerns have been building publicly for a while. And I'm not seeking absolution. I just want to be part of the solution. The negatives

onsumer demand for luxury items — an early sign of economic anxiety. (Wall Street Journal) -- But resilient U.S. earnings buck recession fears, per the Financial Times: "Earnings season in the US has gone better than analysts anticipated. Despite early forecasts for dismal second-quarter results, earnings for S&P