Michael Cohen's testimony provides some evidence for five felonies on the part of the conman.

The succession of world orders, since the 1300s, has arrived at a world order set up by the US after World War II. It has good and bad aspects. Now it is tottering, and a Chinese world order could replace it.

I question some of the points — for instance, Wikipedia's list of empires seems to include any state that called its ruler "emperor", even Oman, Korea, and Vietnam. Most of them are not what we would call "empires". The 1600s were full of wars, just like the 1700s, including the 30 years' war which devastated central Europe worse than anything since the Black Death.

But the overall argument may be valid nonetheless.

Iran's foreign minister's resignation was not accepted; perhaps it was a ploy to get visible confirmation that he still has backing from the top for trying to continue the nonnuclear deal.

Stephen Unger's list of political priorities.

I agree with them more or less, though not exactly the order of them.

Over 100 [Bangladeshi] Workers Claim to Have Been Sacked After Protesting About Low Wages at Factory That Makes "Girl Power" T-Shirts.