For summer vacation-bound executives tired of the detail treadmill, one possible good read is Fareed Zakaria's "The Post American World," published this spring by W.W. Norton & Company. A guru of global "Big Think" and an Indian by birth, Zakaria is the product of Yale and Harvard...
NEW YORK, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Today begins the TIAA-CREF Institute 2008 Higher Education Leadership Conference, "Higher Education in a Global Society", focusing on the critical role of higher education in strengthening worldwide economies, building global collaborations, and meeting workforce needs around the world. A keynote address...
Is Barack Obama the candidate of American decline? To hear some of his supporters among the foreign policy punditry, you'd think he was. Francis Fukuyama says he supports Obama because he believes Obama would be better at "managing" American decline than John McCain. Fareed Zakaria writes encomiums to Obama's "realism",...
Some of us—especially those under 60—have always wondered what it would be like to live through the kind of epochal event one reads about in books. Well, this is it. We’re now living history, suffering one of the greatest financial panics of all time. It compares with the big ones—1907,...
It’s a time to figure out what works, not what ideological mantras to keep repeating. America’s financial crisis has allowed all sorts of people—from British trade unionists to Asian central bankers to France’s mercurial president—to declare that we’re seeing the end of laissez-faire capitalism and free markets. We’re...
A Tennessee congressman says with the energy crisis we face another Sputnik moment. It sometimes seems as if the days of ambitious government science programs, like the Apollo space missions or the Manhattan Project, have ended. But Rep. Bart Gordon, a Democratic congressman from Tennessee and chair of...
Readers expounded on the lackluster legacy of the Bush years, despite our positive cover story. One asked, why the “last-minute spit shine”? Another added, “America will take years to recover,” while a third compared Bush to Harry Truman, who “is now recognized as one of the best presidents America ever...
COVER: The Bright Side All overseas editions. Newsweek International Editor Fareed Zakaria writes that we're in for tough times. But amid all the difficulties and hardship that we are about to undergo, the silver lining may be that the crisis has forced the United States to confront the bad habits...
Amid All the Difficulties and Hardship, Zakaria Writes That He Sees One Silver Lining: The Crisis Has Forced the U.S. To Confront Its Bad Habits The United States 'Has Now Gotten the Wake-Up Call from Hell. If We Can Respond and Change Our Behavior Markedly, This Might Actually...
COVER: The Bright Side (p. 26). Newsweek International Editor Fareed Zakaria writes an essay looking at how there may be good things for the United States' economy in the long run to come out of the current crisis. "Amid all the difficulties and hardship that we are about to undergo,...
China’s prime minister speaks out in his first interview with a Western publication in years. By Fareed Zakaria In New York last week for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly, Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao gave a rare exclusive interview to NEWSWEEK’s Fareed...
McCain says that he always puts country first. In this important case, that is simply not true. Will someone please put Sarah Palin out of her agony? Is it too much to ask that she come to realize that she wants, in that wonderful phrase in American politics,...
Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao speaks out in his first interview with a major U.S. publication in years. In New York for last week’s U.N. General Assembly opening, Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao gave a rare interview to NEWSWEEK’s Fareed Zakaria. Topics ranged from Tibet and Tiananmen Square...
The Post-American World, by Fareed Zakaria, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008, 292 pages, hardcover. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If the American news media favors Cassandras, naysayers, and pessimists, then Fareed Zakaria, editor and columnist for Newsweek magazine and irrepressible optimist, is something of an anomaly. But...
Valiant efforts are being made every day to end hunger, reduce poverty, save lives. But if we truly want to solve the world’s problems, here are five things we need to do. Democracy: If You Want to Free Your Country, First Liberate Its Land So you...
Markets can’t exist without regulation. The real trick is to craft good regulations that allow markets to work well. It seemed as if the global economy were headed for the kind of crash we haven’t seen since 1929. All the elements for a great financial meltdown and economic...
Ever since WWII, America has tended to make its strategic missteps by exaggerating dangers. On the campaign trail, the debate over foreign policy has been muted of late. That might be because more-important topics like lipstick and hockey moms have taken center stage. But the contrasts between the...
The founder of the world’s first carbon-offsets exchange would like to clear the air. Barack Obama and John McCain agree on one thing: the need to cut carbon emissions. With both candidates backing that idea, smoke-spewing factories and power plants can expect big changes soon. Some have prepared...
Readers of our July 21 cover story on America’s conflicts had mixed reactions. One said, “Fareed Zakaria fails to distinguish between real wars and the War on Terror.” But another advised, “Stick to the Pakistani border, where terrorists hide.” A third simply noted, “When enemies talk, tensions go down.” ...
The Georgia attack will go down not as the dawn of a new era of Russian power but as a major strategic blunder. Many in Washington have described Russia’s attack on Georgia as a turning point in international affairs. Pundits thunder that we are returning to an age...
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