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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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)

Biden needs to tell Israel some difficult truths. Only he can do it.

With Israel posed to invade Rafah, it’s time for Biden to adjust his approach. Hugging Netanyahu close is not working.

March 1, 2024
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.

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

Today’s populists despise U.S. cities. And that disgust is in part a rejection of modern, pluralistic American democracy itself.

February 16, 2024
Tucker Carlson checks his notes before conducting an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow this month. (Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik/Kremlin Pool/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

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

The Biden administration will have to do something after the attacks on U.S. troops. But it should do something that does not involve a major escalation.

February 2, 2024
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)

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

After a period of dangerous tensions, relations between the two superpowers seem to be warming. But the rivalry could easily spiral out of control again.

January 27, 2024
President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands before meeting on Nov. 14, 2022, in Bali, Indonesia. (Alex Brandon/AP)