President Trump's withdrawal from the six-nation Iran nuclear agreement last week left many in the international community, including close U.S. allies, scratching their heads. "It's hard to understand the rationale behind Trump's decision," says Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria in his May 10 commentary. "If there is a strategy behind Trump's move,...
Zakaria: Trump Misleads on Immigrants to Stoke Fear
Illegal migration into the United States is at the lowest level on record, according to a 2017 report from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Despite this fact, Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria says President Trump is manufacturing a border control crisis to stoke fears within his base ahead of the...
Macron Struggles To Prevent Iran Deal Collapse
During his three-day U.S. visit last week, French president Emmanuel Macron lobbied hard to preserve the six-nation nuclear agreement with Iran that President Donald Trump seems determined to scuttle. In his April 27 column in The Washington Post, Fareed Zakaria writes, "He is trying to stop President Trump from dividing...
Zakaria: Comey’s Book Is About More Than Trump
The best-selling memoir by fired FBI Director James Comey covers a lot of ground that has already been widely explored in the media. But Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria, in his April 19 piece, points to an incident recounted in Comey's book that illustrates the importance of our nation's legal...
Zakaria: Trust is Loser in Trump Foreign Policy Gambits
President Donald Trump's bombastic foreign policy rhetoric is, to some, a needed departure from the "conventional" approach followed by his predecessors. But as Fareed Zakaria counters in his March 29 article in The Washington Post, the integrity of the United States is being diminished by Trump's shoot-from-the-hip style. "American presidents...
Tariffs Spell End of the Republican Party as We Know It: Zakaria
Has Donald Trump made the final play in his hostile takeover of the Republican Party? His imposition of trade tariffs, opposed by almost all other party leaders but embraced by Trump's voter base, may seal the deal. As Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria writes in his March 8 column, "The...
China is Already Powerful. What Happens When a Strongman Rules?
This week, China's national legislative body will likely vote to allow President Xi Jinping to remain in power - possibly for life. A change to the country's constitution would remove presidential term limits that have been in place there since 1982. Those limits have prevented the consolidation of absolute power into...
In Worrying Trend, United States Fails "Full Democracy" Test
For the past 10 years, The Economist has tracked the strength of democracy in 167 countries across the globe. Now, for the second consecutive year, the United States has failed to meet the standard of "full democracy" as measured by the publication's metrics. In his Washington Post column from Feb....
In Worrying Trend, United States Fails "Full Democracy" Test
For the past 10 years, The Economist has tracked the strength of democracy in 167 countries across the globe. Now, for the second consecutive year, the United States has failed to meet the standard of "full democracy" as measured by the publication's metrics. In his Washington Post column from Feb....
Chaotic Middle East Puts World at Risk
Although the drumbeat of news reports may give the impression that much of the world is in crisis, the reality is quite the opposite, according to Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria. In his Friday, Feb. 16 post, Zakaria notes, "In almost every part of the world, economies are growing and...