Is the US Underreacting to the Epstein Files?

Different cultural, legal, and media landscapes have shaped calls for accountability

When the first batch of Jeffrey Epstein files surfaced in September, revealing that Peter Mandelson, then the British ambassador to the United States, had maintained his friendship with Epstein years after the financier’s 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor for prostitution, the British government fired Mandelson from his post. Last week, as more rev…