“would have tried to overthrow the government of Iran”
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Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Rafiq Zakaria is an Indian-born American journalist, political commentator, and author. He is the host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS and writes a weekly column for The Washington Post. He has been a columnist for Newsweek, editor of Newsweek International, and an editor at large of Time.
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culture · American journalist and author (born 1964) · journalist · reporter · essayist · economist · political scientist · editorial columnist · writer · editor-in-chief · also Fareed Zakaria, Fareed Rafiq Zakaria, Zakaria
Born 20 January 1964 · Q333425
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s new organizing principle was pro- or anti-Americanism. But as the Iraq muddle drags on and China rises, the larger story of the post-Cold War era has come into sharp relief: We are not the center of the universe. It matters less that particular countries are pro- or anti-American than that the world is increasingly non-American. We need to get over ourselves. Zakaria
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2026· 7 entries
“s new organizing principle was pro- or anti-Americanism. But as the Iraq muddle drags on and China rises, the larger story of the post-Cold War era has come into sharp relief: We are not the center of the universe. It matters less that particular countries are pro- or anti-American than that the world is increasingly non-American. We need to get over ourselves. Zakaria”
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The Washington Post: Fareed Zakaria: Is America losing the world?ⓘ
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Public attention spiked: 3,099 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.6× the usual 549, with 0 article edits.
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Fareed Zakaria endorses Pakistan's role for Washington on CNN” False.
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The New York Times: Fareed Zakaria
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Yahoo: CNN’s Fareed Zakaria Goes Off on ‘Blue Cities’ Like LA and New York for Being ‘Out of Control’
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2025· 1 entry
AFP Fact Check rated the claim “CNN’s Fareed Zakaria’s take on Tanzania-Kenya row” AI-generated.
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2024· 1 entry
New York Post: CNN’s Fareed Zakaria casts doubt on Biden re-election: ‘It’s best to be honest about reality’
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2023· 2 entries
The Quint rated the claim “This video shows Fareed Zakaria's analysis of the G20 Summit that was held in India.” False.
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FACTLY rated the claim “After the G20 summit, Fareed Zakaria made comments on the Indian economy on his show” MISLEADING.
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2022· 1 entry
“Forget pronouns. Democrats need to become the party of building things”
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2020· 1 entry
Zakaria was awarded the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) Founders Award for Excellence in Journalism
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2019· 1 entry
Zakaria was listed as one of Foreign Policy's "Top 10 Global Thinker of the Last 10 Years"
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2018· 1 entry
Claimed: ““When you tally up their representation in Congress and governorships, the Democrats almost have their lowest representation in about 100 years.”” — rated True by PolitiFact.
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2017· 1 entry
Won Ellis Island Medal of Honor (2017).
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2016· 1 entry
Snopes.com rated the claim “CNN host Fareed Zakaria posted a blog entry calling for white women to be raped by Islamic minority groups.” False.
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2013· 1 entry
Became one of the producers for the HBO series Vice, for which he serves as a consultant
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2012· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of Harvard University (2012).
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Published “Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,664 times.
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2011· 2 entries
An updated and expanded edition of The Post-American World ("Release 2
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The editors of The New Republic included him in a list of "over-rated thinkers" and commented, "There's something suspicious about a thinker always so perfectly in tune with the moment
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2010· 4 entries
Edition of Fareed Zakaria GPS, Zakaria addressed the issue, stating that in returning his award, he had hoped that the ADL would reconsider their stance
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Awarded Padma Bhushan (2010).
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In protest at the Anti-Defamation League's opposition to the building of the Park51 mosque and Islamic cultural center two blocks from the World Trade Center site, Zakaria returned the Hubert H
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As a "consummate spokesman for the shibboleths of the [Obama] White House and for the smooth new worldliness, the at-the-highest-levels impatience with democracy and human rights as central objectives of our foreign poli
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Carey McWilliams Award (2009).
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2008· 1 entry
“Conservatism grew powerful in the 1970s and 1980s because it proposed solutions appropriate to the problems of the age”
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2007· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Miami (2007).
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Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2007).
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2003· 2 entries
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told New York Magazine that Zakaria "has a first-class mind and likes to say things that run against conventional wisdom
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"He's so well versed in politics, and he can't be pigeonholed
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2000· 1 entry
“Beijing is now the second-largest funder of the UN and UN peacekeepers. It has deployed 2,500 peacekeepers, more than all the other permanent members of the Security Council combined. Between 2000 and 2008 it supported 182 of 190 Security Council resolutions imposing sanctions on nations deemed to have violated international rules or norms.”
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1997· 1 entry
Zakaria married Paula Throckmorton, a jewelry designer
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1986· 1 entry
Where he was president of the Yale Political Union, editor in chief of the Yale Political Monthly, a member of the Scroll and Key society, and a member of the Party of the Right
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1964· 1 entry
Born 1964-01-20.
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