Columns — Fareed Zakaria

Lessons from the war against al-Qaeda

Washington PostFareed ZakariaNovember 19, 2015al-Qaeda, Henry Kissinger, ISIS, Islamic State, Osama bin Laden, Peter Bergen, Seth Jones, Taliban

Trump and the Republican crack-up

Washington PostFareed ZakariaNovember 12, 2015Donald Trump, foreign policy, GOP, Immigration, Marco Rubio, Medicare, Michael Lind, Republican Party, Ronald Reagan, Social Security, Ted Cruz

The dangers of incrementalism

Washington PostFareed ZakariaNovember 5, 2015Barack Obama, Bashar al-Assad, incrementalism, ISIS, Islamic State, Leslie Gelb, Micah Zenko, Richard Betts, Syria, Vietnam

A voice of hope in the Muslim world

Washington PostFareed ZakariaNovember 5, 2015Arab Spring, Ennahda, Habib Bourguiba, Habib Essid, ISIS, Rachid Ghannouchi, Tunisia

Trudeau and the power of 'positive politics'

Washington PostFareed ZakariaOctober 22, 2015Bernie Sanders, Canada, Jeremy Corbyn, Justin Trudeau, populism, Sean Wilentz, Stephen Harper

Stop swooning over Putin

Washington PostFareed ZakariaOctober 14, 2015Bashar al-Assad, Dwight Eisenhower, Henry Kissinger, Niall Ferguson, Otto von Bismarck, Vladimir Putin

The inconvenient truth about Afghanistan

Washington PostFareed ZakariaOctober 8, 2015Afghanistan, Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, Hamid Karzai, Husain Haqqani, Kunduz, Mohammad Omar, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, Taliban

In Syria, whose side is the United States on?

Washington PostFareed ZakariaOctober 1, 2015Ahrar al-Sham, Bashar al-Assad, Jabhat al-Nusra, Kenneth Pollack, Obama, Putin, Syria

The main message of Pope Francis (and Jesus)

Washington PostFareed ZakariaOctober 1, 2015abortion, Christianity, contraception, Jesus, Pope Francis

Donald Trump sells America short

Washington PostFareed ZakariaOctober 1, 2015China, Donald Trump, Economy, Enrique Pena Nieto, Japan, Mexico, Ruchir Sharma, Shinzo Abe

Germany's road to redemption

Washington PostFareed ZakariaSeptember 10, 2015Angela Merkel, Germany, Greece, Holocaust, Marine Le Pen, Viktor Orban, World War II

Republican candidates bash China at our own peril

Washington PostFareed ZakariaSeptember 10, 2015China, Chris Christie, Donald Trump, Hank Paulson, Henry Kissinger, Marco Rubio, Republicans, Scott Walker, Xi Jinping

The consequences of the oil bust

Washington PostFareed ZakariaAugust 20, 2015Iran, Iraq, Leonardo Maugeri, Nick Butler, oil, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela

An open letter to Senator Schumer

Washington PostFareed ZakariaAugust 13, 2015Chuck Schumer, Iran, Iran deal, Middle East, Sanctions, snapback

Obama's optimism is vindicated by history

Washington PostFareed ZakariaAugust 6, 2015American University, Cold War, ISIS, Islamic State, Lindsey Graham, Middle East, Rick Perry, Saddam Hussein, Samuel Huntington, Soviet Union, Sputnik