Fareed Zakaria

Best of 2016 November/December 2016 Comment

Populism on the March

Donald Trump’s candidacy is part of a broad populist upsurge throughout the Western world. Economic stasis and rapid cultural change have provoked a backlash across...

Fareed Zakaria

Storming the gates: refugees at the Greek border, February 2016.

May/June 2013 Response

How to Fix America

For the U.S. economy to reach its full potential, argues Edward Conard, Washington should decrease federal spending and ease government regulation. Fareed Zakaria...

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Economic Development January/February 2013 Essay

Can America Be Fixed?

The crisis of democracy identified in the 1970s never really went away; it was just papered over with temporary solutions and obscured by a series of lucky breaks....

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Economics Nov 1, 2010 Review Essay

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Fareed Zakaria assesses Ian Bremmer's The End of the Free Market.

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Globalization May/June 2008 Essay

The Future of American Power

Despite some eerie parallels between the position of the United States today and that of the British Empire a century ago, there are key differences. Britain's decline...

Fareed Zakaria

Asia July/August 1998 Capsule Review

India: From Midnight to the Millennium

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Political Development May/June 1998 Capsule Review

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Human Rights November/December 1997 Essay

The Rise of Illiberal Democracy

Around the world, democratically elected regimes are routinely ignoring limits on their power and depriving citizens of basic freedoms.

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The United Nations Security Council at U.N. Headquarters in New York, March 2014.

Politics & Society March/April 1994 Essay

A Conversation with Lee Kuan Yew

More than economics, more than politics, a nation's culture will determine its fate. So says the man who built Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew. Lee is not optimistic that...

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Politics & Society March/April 1994 Essay

A Conversation with Lee Kuan Yew

An interview with Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew in which he emphasizes the importance of culture in a nation's future.

Fareed Zakaria

Politics & Society September/October 1993 Capsule Review

Reconstructing Nations and States, Summer 1993 issue of Daedalus, Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Vol. 122, No. 3.

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Fareed Zakaria

Populism on the March

How to Fix America

Can America Be Fixed?

Fareed Zakaria

The Future of American Power

India: From Midnight to the Millennium

Newsletter

The Rise of Illiberal Democracy

A Conversation with Lee Kuan Yew

A Conversation with Lee Kuan Yew

Reconstructing Nations and States, Summer 1993 issue of Daedalus, Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Vol. 122, No. 3.

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