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On foreign policy, Obama is like Ike
By Fareed Zakaria One of the least controversial judgments about Barack Obama’s first term is that he has been a good foreign policy President. Certainly that’s what the American public believes. It...
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The year we reckon with Iran
By Fareed Zakaria Opponents of Chuck Hagel's nomination to be the U.S.'s next Secretary of Defense claim he is outside the mainstream in his views on Israel. Hagel's actual policy positions don't...
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Will he fight or compromise?
By Fareed Zakaria One of the great political debates in Washington – and around the country – has been about whether Barack Obama is a highly partisan Democrat bent on a liberal agenda or a centrist...
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Upward mobility
By Fareed Zakaria America has long been seen–by its citizens and the world–as the place where anyone can make it. And yet studies from the past two decades all point to a different reality. Economic...
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Build that pipeline
By Fareed Zakaria Environmental groups are approaching the Keystone pipeline project much as the U.S. government fights the war on drugs. They are attacking supply rather than demand. In this case,...
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Resilience and complacency
By Fareed Zakaria Boston has a tough New England spirit, a puritan ethic that prizes doing one’s job and not making a fuss. (I spent seven years living in that beautiful city and was always struck by...
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With or Without Us
The assumption that American intervention could mitigate Syria's carnage is flawed By Fareed Zakaria Those urging the U.S. to intervene in Syria are certain of one thing: If we had intervened sooner,...
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A recovery with many fathers
By Fareed Zakaria Looking back, it's now clear that Washington handled the 2008 financial crisis extremely well. It acted quickly and with massive firepower: rescuing overextended banks, enacting a...
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Obama and Xi's summit success
By Fareed Zakaria While we were consumed by the crises of the moment – Turkey's riots, NSA snooping and Washington's "scandals" – something happened on June 7 and 8 that is potentially of more lasting...
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Big data, meet big brother
By Fareed Zakaria We are living with the consequences of two powerful, interrelated trends. The first is digital life. Your life today has a digital signature. Where you eat, shop and travel; whom you...
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A fool's errand worth pursuing
By Fareed Zakaria If you were to ask me what international problem is least likely to be resolved in the next few years, I would probably say the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians. It...
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Not the time for big sticks
By Fareed Zakaria When the Obama administration was selling the case for military action against Syria, it used every argument it could come up with, from preserving international norms to preventing...
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What an Iran deal would look like
By Fareed Zakaria We now know that the change in U.S.-China relations in 1972 led inexorably to China's becoming the economic power it is today–rich, market-based and open to the world. But that path...
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The case for snooping
By Fareed Zakaria It's not always true that if you're under attack from both sides of the political spectrum, you're probably doing the right thing. The smart or moral course is sometimes resolutely...
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Karzai's not-so-crazy end game
By Fareed Zakaria Is Hamid Karzai crazy? on the face of it, the Afghan President has said lots of odd, inflammatory and contradictory things. Over the past year, he has criticized the U.S., wondered...
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Time to put trade above politics
By Fareed Zakaria We live in a world without war or even significant conflict among the major powers. We also live in an age of economic growth. All of this seems normal, but in fact, it isn't. The...
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Putin tactics don't bode well for Russia
By Fareed Zakaria There are those who are still trapped by history and geography. Think of Pakistan’s generals, still trying to establish “strategic depth” in their backyard while their country...
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