Hoover Institution fellow Gary Roughead discusses whether China and the US can avoid falling into Thucydides’ trap, a popular empirical observation from history that a rising power and a reigning power inevitably end up in bitter conflict.

The former ambassador of the USA in Russia Michael McFaul with nostalgia remembers time spent in Moscow writes the site of “Komsomolskaya Pravda”. In Twitter the diplomat admitted the microblog that considers work in embassy in the Russian Federation as the best of all what it had. “I loved the work of the ambassador in the Russian Federation! The best work from all what I only had” – he wrote on the page.

Gloria Steinem’s new book, “My Life on the Road,” recounts her life’s journeys and travels. Early reviews and profiles reveal incredible detail of Steinem’s barrier-breaking feminist role, liberalism, romances and style. What is often missed, or mischaracterized, is the work she did as a CIA agent: Steinem was a spook.

Amidst the breakdown of their negotiations with the Palestinians and a wave of terrorist attacks rolling across the country, Israelis will gather on the evening of October 31 in Tel Aviv to honor the memory of Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated 20 years ago. And they will continue to wrestle with the meaning for Israel’s future of his life and tragic death.