If you’re wondering why the past two weeks in American politics strike you as unprecedented, it’s because you weren’t around in 1933. No, I am not talking about Germany in 1933 (please can The New Yorker finally retire its absurd “Trump is Hitler!” analogy). I am talking about the United States in 1933 — to be precise on March 4 of that year, the day an equally radical administration began 100 days of national transformation.

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.