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Fareed Zakaria

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On the economy and foreign policy, Biden has notched important wins

The president has been underestimated throughout his political career. President Biden addresses the nation from the Oval Office on Wednesday,...

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The Biden crisis is now a game of chicken

All Democrats can do is try to convince the president they won’t swerve. President Biden speaks at a Detroit event on Friday. (Sarah Rice...

19.07.2024 30

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Americans should be more confident in their country’s vitality and virtue

Polls show that the world sees us more clearly than we see ourselves. Chinese and U.S. flags flutter outside the building of an American...

28.06.2024 20

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Britain’s elections hold powerful lessons for Democrats

The Conservative Party’s looming defeat is not due to voters’ preference for the left’s ideas. Labour Party leader Keir Starmer in...

21.06.2024 100

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Europe’s biggest problem: It is falling way behind America’s powerhouse economy

European leaders understand the problem. But change is painful, and populists wait in the wings. The European Union's headquarters in Brussels...

14.06.2024 10

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Narendra Modi and the myth of the strongman

Voters in India clipped the prime minister’s wings. That’s good for the country’s future. A newspaper seller in New Delhi sorts papers...

07.06.2024 10

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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? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem...

24.05.2024 60

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On Gaza, Biden is right and Netanyahu is wrong

17.05.2024 70

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The dangerous new call for regime change in Beijing

Republicans criticize Biden for being too soft on China. Their preferred approach is much more dangerous. President Biden and Chinese leader...

03.05.2024 10

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

Cranes remove containers from a Yang Ming cargo ship in Tacoma, Wash., in 2019. (Ted S. Warren/AP Photo) Listen 5 min Share...

12.04.2024 10

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How Trump fills a void in an increasingly secular America

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

05.04.2024 30

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Liberals must not use illiberal means to defeat Trumpism

Ronna McDaniel at a 2022 GOP event in D.C. (Alex Brandon/AP photo) Listen 5 min Share Comment on this story ...

29.03.2024 50

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How to beat the backlash that threatens the liberal revolution

Opinion How to beat the backlash that threatens the liberal revolution By Fareed Zakaria Columnist | Follow author Follow...

22.03.2024 100

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

Russian President Vladimir Putin during an interview in Moscow on Tuesday. (Gavriil Grigorov/AP) Listen 5 min Share ...

15.03.2024 10

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

The flags of the United Arab Emirates and Israel are seen on a bridge in Netanya, Israel, in August 2020. (Ariel Schalit/AP) Listen 5...

08.03.2024 30

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On Gaza, Biden increasingly looks ineffective and weak

A Palestinian boy walks amidst the rubble at the site of an Israeli strike on a house in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday. (Ibraheem Abu...

01.03.2024 30

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Carlson, like the populist right, dislikes what makes America great

Tucker Carlson checks his notes before conducting an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow this month. (Gavriil...

16.02.2024 60

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In responding to Iran, the U.S. should take the Godfather’s advice

The guided-missile destroyer USS Laboon (DDG 58) fires a Tomahawk land attack missile on April 14, 2018. (Kallysta Castillo/U.S. Navy via AP) ...

02.02.2024 50

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The U.S.-China relationship is back on track. Let’s hope it stays that way.

President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands before meeting on Nov. 14, 2022, in Bali, Indonesia. (Alex Brandon/AP) ...

27.01.2024 10

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At Davos, all eyes are on America’s presidential election

Donald Trump at the White House on July 23, 2018. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Listen 5 min Share Comment on...

19.01.2024 50

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Israel’s war in Gaza isn’t genocide, but is it proportionate?

Smoke from an Israeli strike rises above a neighborhood in the southern Gaza city of Rafah on Dec. 20. (Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images) ...

12.01.2024 10

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Americans are far too pessimistic about the future

The White House on Dec. 1 in Washington. (Kent Nishimura for The Washington Post) Listen 4 min Share Comment on this...

05.01.2024 100

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The U.S. is its own worst enemy on foreign policy

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin share a toast during a reception in Moscow in March. (Pavel...

15.12.2023 70

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The Self-Doubting Superpower

Most Americans think their country is in decline. In 2018, when the Pew Research Center asked Americans how they felt their country would perform in...

12.12.2023 40

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