Religions are vague, of course. This means that they are easy to follow -you can interpret their prescriptions as you like. but it also means that it…

- Fareed Zakaria

Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they ha…

- Fareed Zakaria

Germany is a fascinating role model. The Germans have maintained their manufacturing edge despite being a high-tax, high-regulation economy. Why? Bec…

- Fareed Zakaria

Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism.

- Fareed Zakaria

It all looks American because America, the country that invented mass capitalism and consumerism, got there first. the impact of mass capitalism is n…

- Fareed Zakaria

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and thre…

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If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a compl…

- Fareed Zakaria

The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow …

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Generations from now, when historians write about these times, they might note that, in the early decades of the twenty-first century, the United Sta…

- Fareed Zakaria