Fareed Zakaira
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🎁 link to WaPo column: wapo.st/4paLTX4
December 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
🎁 link to WaPo column: wapo.st/4paLTX4
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I did not understand this: one of the five Europeans the US has barred from traveling to the United States...is a permanent resident who lives with his family in the US.
Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
Judge Blocks Detention of British Researcher Who Scrutinizes Online Hate
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I did not understand this: one of the five Europeans the US has barred from traveling to the United States...is a permanent resident who lives with his family in the US.
Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
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Symbolic air strikes, whether in Syria or Nigeria, will not defeat ISIS. Many of Trump’s other actions, from cutting foreign aid to trying to eliminate online moderation, are actually undermining the struggle against ISIS and other terrorist groups. As i just wrote: wapo.st/4qrV8U5
December 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Symbolic air strikes, whether in Syria or Nigeria, will not defeat ISIS. Many of Trump’s other actions, from cutting foreign aid to trying to eliminate online moderation, are actually undermining the struggle against ISIS and other terrorist groups. As i just wrote: wapo.st/4qrV8U5
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“Anti-American” = anti-MAGA. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Trump officials move to screen visa applicants’ posts for ‘anti-American’ speech
The administration’s efforts to curtail legal migration have accelerated in a way that immigrant rights advocates say is chilling public discourse.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
“Anti-American” = anti-MAGA. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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An Afrikaner, excited by the President Trump’s public embrace of white South Africans, traveled to the U.S. expecting a warm welcome. Instead, he has spent months locked up in Georgia alongside hundreds of other immigrants.
Trump Invited White South Africans to America. One Ended Up in Detention.
An Afrikaner flew to the United States expecting protection. Instead, he has spent months locked up in Georgia alongside hundreds of other immigrants.
nyti.ms
December 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
An Afrikaner, excited by the President Trump’s public embrace of white South Africans, traveled to the U.S. expecting a warm welcome. Instead, he has spent months locked up in Georgia alongside hundreds of other immigrants.
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This spoke to me…
“Bookshops make everything better, don’t they? The smell of them, the silence of them, the sense of possibility that each and every one of the books they house promises. A great book has the power to change your way of looking at the world.” www.ft.com/content/cc77...
“Bookshops make everything better, don’t they? The smell of them, the silence of them, the sense of possibility that each and every one of the books they house promises. A great book has the power to change your way of looking at the world.” www.ft.com/content/cc77...
I opened a bookshop. It was the best, worst thing I’ve ever done
Chloe Fox shares the hopes and heartache of fulfilling a life-long dream
www.ft.com
December 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
This spoke to me…
“Bookshops make everything better, don’t they? The smell of them, the silence of them, the sense of possibility that each and every one of the books they house promises. A great book has the power to change your way of looking at the world.” www.ft.com/content/cc77...
“Bookshops make everything better, don’t they? The smell of them, the silence of them, the sense of possibility that each and every one of the books they house promises. A great book has the power to change your way of looking at the world.” www.ft.com/content/cc77...
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"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel"
"sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"
"sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"
December 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel"
"sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"
"sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"
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For many allies, the uncertainty over U.S. support for Ukraine merely confirmed what has already become obvious: The United States is no longer a reliable partner. The post-American world predicted by Fareed Zakaria in a 2008 book is finally dawning. wapo.st/4oZH3wz
Opinion | America has become a rogue nation. U.S. allies are looking elsewhere.
Europeans and Canadians are talking about making their own security arrangements.
wapo.st
November 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
For many allies, the uncertainty over U.S. support for Ukraine merely confirmed what has already become obvious: The United States is no longer a reliable partner. The post-American world predicted by Fareed Zakaria in a 2008 book is finally dawning. wapo.st/4oZH3wz
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Fareed Zakaria in today's Washington Post:
"...President Donald Trump...has been enabled by a failure of political courage in Congress and an ideological Supreme Court that seems to have lost any respect for original intent and precedent." shorturl.at/1DlPE
SCOTUS is a corrupt disgrace.
"...President Donald Trump...has been enabled by a failure of political courage in Congress and an ideological Supreme Court that seems to have lost any respect for original intent and precedent." shorturl.at/1DlPE
SCOTUS is a corrupt disgrace.
Opinion | Strongmen around the world are increasingly inspired by America’s example
A permissive Supreme Court and a supine Congress have turned the executive into something the Framers feared.
shorturl.at
November 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Fareed Zakaria in today's Washington Post:
"...President Donald Trump...has been enabled by a failure of political courage in Congress and an ideological Supreme Court that seems to have lost any respect for original intent and precedent." shorturl.at/1DlPE
SCOTUS is a corrupt disgrace.
"...President Donald Trump...has been enabled by a failure of political courage in Congress and an ideological Supreme Court that seems to have lost any respect for original intent and precedent." shorturl.at/1DlPE
SCOTUS is a corrupt disgrace.
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“Fareed Zakaria:
November 29, 2025 at 8:40 PM
“Fareed Zakaria:
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Fareed Zakaria: As the populist right trashes meritocracy, it is replacing it with something older, cruder and more corrosive: a naked plutocracy — rule by the very rich. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Populists are replacing meritocracy with something far worse
Undermining expertise is a pretext for consolidating power among the ultra-wealthy.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Fareed Zakaria: As the populist right trashes meritocracy, it is replacing it with something older, cruder and more corrosive: a naked plutocracy — rule by the very rich. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Undermining expertise is a pretext for consolidating power among the ultra-wealthy, Fareed Zakaria writes.
Opinion | Populists are replacing meritocracy with something far worse
Undermining expertise is a pretext for consolidating power among the ultra-wealthy.
wapo.st
December 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Undermining expertise is a pretext for consolidating power among the ultra-wealthy, Fareed Zakaria writes.