The dangers of incrementalism
By Fareed Zakaria Thursday, November 5, 2015 It is difficult to find anyone in the Obama administration who believes that putting up to 50 Special Operations soldiers on the ground in Syria will make...
View ArticleI called it ‘radical Islam.’ So what?
By Fareed Zakaria Thursday, December 17, 2015 “Radical Islamic terrorism.” Apparently, the phrase — if you can actually say it — has mystical powers. At Tuesday’s Republican debate, the candidates once...
View ArticleAmerica is being changed – but by whom?
By Fareed Zakaria Thursday, February 11, 2016 It is the line that might have sunk a presidential campaign. “[Barack Obama] knows exactly what he’s doing,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said at Saturday’s...
View ArticleA transformational president?
By Fareed Zakaria Thursday, April 7, 2016 In an interview during the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama said that Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of the United States in a way that Richard Nixon and Bill...
View ArticleObama’s Whac-A-Mole strategy
By Fareed Zakaria Thursday, July 14, 2016 It has become conventional wisdom to note that President Obama has failed in his efforts to extricate the United States from military conflicts in the Middle...
View ArticleTrump and the politics of cultural despair
By Fareed Zakaria Thursday, August 18, 2016 For some of us, the puzzle of this election is not why Donald Trump is doing so badly but why he is doing so well. Given his obvious lack of qualifications,...
View ArticleObama is now alone in Washington
By Fareed Zakaria Thursday, September 1, 2016 While we are consumed with the ups and downs of the bizarre U.S. presidential campaign, Barack Obama will make his last trip to Asia as president. The...
View ArticleThe center can still hold
By Fareed Zakaria Thursday, September 22, 2016 It’s the annual gathering of world leaders in New York this week, and for most of them, it’s time for group therapy. Around the globe, leaders of all...
View ArticleThe Democrats’ problem is not the economy, stupid
By Fareed Zakaria Thursday, June 29, 2017 The Democratic Party has reacted to its series of recent election losses by once again concluding that it needs a better economic message. As Senate Minority...
View ArticleTrump signs on to the forever war in Afghanistan
By Fareed Zakaria Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017 There is surely no greater sign of the bankruptcy of U.S. foreign policy than its Afghanistan policy. After more than 15 years of war and the deployment of...
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