It wasn’t just Israel taken by surprise when Hamas terrorists struck — the atrocity also stunned Washington. The US now faces threats on an unprecedented four fronts and global peace has never looked a more distant prospect

The former US secretary of state insists to Niall Ferguson that the US isn’t going to give up on Ukraine, won’t plunge into civil war — and is a beacon of racial harmony

Political fashions come and go. But his biographer says we should still listen to a statesman who’s so prescient on geopolitics

Interview: The Cold War statesman on Putin, China and our new moment of peril

Those who make predictions must keep a tally. So how did I do?

This virus is to social life what HIV was to sexual life.

Unlike the Black Death, this pandemic is not reducing inequality.

Far from being nearly over, the pandemic will be back sooner or later.

To halt the spread of viral disinformation, China must be put on the spot.