It’s all too easy to sketch a likely trajectory that is far from a pleasant prospect. But we should never forget the usual proviso. We do not have to be passive spectators, thereby contributing to potential disaster.

The U.S. is vigorously fanning the flames while Ukraine is asking it to tone down the rhetoric

GOP is more akin to ‘a radical insurgency’ with ‘no interest in democracy’ than a political party

Crucially, there is widespread understanding of the measures that can be take, quite realistically, to avert impending disaster and move on to a much better world

The US committed the supreme international crime in Indochina

Trump’s “Big Lie” continues to hold sway over the overwhelming majority of Republicans voters, and the Republican Party itself is increasingly unwilling to accept defeat

Interview on a variety of topics

The Russia-Ukraine conflict is a solvable problem, but one wonders if the U.S. will remain dedicated to a “zombie policy” that could produce potentially awful consequences in the event of a diplomatic failure

The main lesson from the Cold War era is that it’s a virtual miracle that we have survived

Interview on COP26 climate summit in Glasgow