U.S. policy on India, and Modi, needs to change
By Fareed Zakaria/The Washington Post Barack Obama’s pivot to Asia has been widely praised. But many critics wish that he would infuse the policy with greater substance and energy. In fact, the...
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By Fareed Zakaria Despite this week’s elections, President Obama has the time and scope to do big things over the next two years. But they will have to be in the world beyond Washington. Next week’s...
View ArticleWill Washington allow the pursuit of positive foreign policy?
By Fareed Zakaria Thursday, January 29, 2015 NEW DELHI — President Obama’s trip to India was strategically important, symbolically resonant and deftly executed. But it coincided with a snowstorm in...
View ArticleBritain resigns as a world power
By Fareed Zakaria Thursday, May 21, 2015 LONDON — On Monday, the Right Honorable David Cameron, prime minister of Great Britain, gave his first major speech after being reelected to his high office —...
View ArticleListen to Rand Paul
By Fareed Zakaria Thursday, June 4, 2015 It turns out that Republicans in Washington are united on one issue: their hatred of Rand Paul. John McCain says that he is “the worst possible candidate . . ....
View ArticleTrump and the Republican crack-up
By Fareed Zakaria Thursday, November 12, 2015 Today’s conventional wisdom is that Donald Trump’s best days are behind him and that his poll numbers will soon descend. Maybe. But Trump has come to...
View ArticleTrump defines foreign policy down
By Fareed Zakaria Thursday, April 28, 2016 After Donald Trump’s “major” foreign policy address, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), said that he was very...
View ArticleFDR started the Long Peace. Under Trump, it may be coming to an end.
By Fareed Zakaria Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017 In his first days in office, President Trump has begun to reverse the domestic policies of the previous eight years. But with regard to the United States’...
View ArticleTrump’s radical doctrine of retreat
By Fareed Zakaria Thursday, June 1, 2017 We now have a Trump Doctrine, and it is, at least in its conception and initial execution, the most radical departure from a bipartisan U.S. foreign policy...
View ArticleTrump didn’t know the Middle East could be so complicated
By Fareed Zakaria Thursday, June 8, 2017 President Trump returned from his first overseas trip convinced that he had unified the United States’ historic Arab allies, dealt a strong blow against...
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