This is GPS, the global public square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around

the world. I'm Farid Zakaria, coming to you live from New York.

Today on the program, what to do about Russia? Talks between Moscow and the West this week

brought the sides no closer to compromise.

It is Russia that has to make a stark choice, de-escalation and diplomacy or confrontation

and consequences.

Will Putin invade Ukraine again? Will he capitalize on Kazakhstan's unrest?

I will talk to Vladimir Putin's chief spokesman, Demetri Peskov, then to two former top Western

officials who've negotiated with the Russian President.

Also, the pandemic has wreaked havoc in schools and hospitals and on our mental health.

But how much damage has it done to American democracy?

The Harvard scholar, Danielle Allen, who is running for Governor of Massachusetts, spent

most of the last two years thinking about exactly that. She'll tell me what she's learned.

At first, here's my take. As we watch inflation spike upward at a pace not seen since the early

1980s, experts are debating whether this phenomenon is worrying and long term or benign in

transitory.

Now, I'm not an economist, but as a student of history, I do wonder whether the return

of inflation is part of a larger shift that has taken place across the world. To put it

simply for decades in country after country, economics trumped politics. But now, from

China to Turkey to the United States, politics is trumping economics.

The conquest of inflation is one of the most far-reaching changes of our times. Countries

used to think that they simply had to live with and manage escalating prices and wages.

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