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Fareed Zakaria

New York

Columnist focusing on foreign affairs

Education: Yale College, BA; Harvard University, PhD

Fareed Zakaria writes a foreign affairs column for The Post. He is also the host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS. Prior to his current roles, Zakaria was editor of Newsweek International, managing editor of Foreign Affairs, a columnist for Time, an analyst for ABC News and the host of Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria on PBS. He is the author of "Age of Revolutions" (2024), “
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Narendra Modi and the myth of the strongman

Indians understood that pluralism, cooperation and diversity are their country’s enduring advantage.

June 7, 2024
A newspaper seller in New Delhi sorts papers the morning after India's general election results were announced on Wednesday. (Rebecca Conway/Getty Images)

Out of the Gaza war, there is an opportunity

The U.S. and Saudi Arabia have been pursuing a way out. Can they get Israel on board?

May 24, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem last June. (Abir Sultan/Pool/AP)

On Gaza, Biden is right and Netanyahu is wrong

With Israeli officials and generals turning on the prime minister, the country must adjust course.

May 17, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers remarks in Jerusalem on Sunday. (Debbie Hill/Pool/AP)

The dangerous new call for regime change in Beijing

Republicans criticize Biden for being too soft on Beijing. Their preferred approach is much more dangerous.

May 3, 2024
President Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping shake hands before a meeting of the Group of 20 in Bali, Indonesia, on Nov. 14, 2022. (Alex Brandon/AP)

Biden embraced Trump’s tariffs. It might be his undoing.

Voters may have railed against globalization in the past. But they also got used to the low prices.

April 12, 2024
Cranes remove containers from a Yang Ming cargo ship in Tacoma, Wash., in 2019. (Ted S. Warren/AP Photo)

How Trump fills a void in an increasingly secular America

As secularization spreads, opportunistic populists such as Donald Trump are weaponizing religion.

April 5, 2024
A supporter prays during a rally featuring Donald Trump in Greensboro, N.C., on March 2. (Scott Muthersbaugh for The Washington Post)

Liberals should tread carefully when confronting Trumpism

Trying to take down for former president by any means available might backfire.

March 29, 2024
Ronna McDaniel at a 2022 GOP event in D.C. (Alex Brandon/AP photo)

How to beat the backlash that threatens the liberal revolution

With all the change in recent decades, people are understandably overwhelmed. But that’s no reason to abandon liberalism.

March 22, 2024

Putin is in it to win it in Ukraine. Are we?

President Biden and other Western leaders must demonstrate that they too will do what it takes — and that time is not on Putin’s side.

March 15, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin during an interview in Moscow on Tuesday. (Gavriil Grigorov/AP)

Amid the horror in Gaza, it’s easy to miss that the Middle East has changed

Arab states that are now the Middle East’s leaders are playing an important and constructive role in working for peace in Gaza.

March 8, 2024
The flags of the United Arab Emirates and Israel are seen on a bridge in Netanya, Israel, in August 2020. (Ariel Schalit/AP)