Fareed Rafiq Zakaria is an Indian-American journalist, political commentator, and author. He is the host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS and writes a weekly paid column for The Washington Post. His last three books have both been New York Times bestsellers. Zakaria self-identifies as a centrist, though he has been described variously as a political liberal, a conservative, a moderate, or a radical centrist.
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Fareed Rafiq Zakaria is an Indian-American journalist, political commentator, and author. He is the host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS and writes a weekly paid column for The Washington Post. He has been a columnist for Newsweek, editor of Newsweek International, and an editor at large of Time. His last three books have both been New York Times bestsellers. Zakaria self-identifies as a centrist, though he has been described variously as a political liberal, a conservative, a moderate, or a radical centrist. He supported Barack Obama during the 2008 Democratic primary campaign and Forbes referred to him as one of the 25 most influential liberals in the U.S. In 2013, he became one the producers for the HBO series Vice, for which he serves as a consultant. He was a news analyst with ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos where he was a member of the Sunday morning roundtable. He hosted the weekly TV news show, Foreign Exchange with Fareing Zakaria on PBS. His weekly show airs twice weekly in the United States and four times weekly on CNN International, reaching over 200 million homes. In 2011 an updated and expanded edition of The Post-American World was published. He co-edited The American Encounter: The United States. and the Making of the Modern World with James F. Hoge Jr. The Future of Freedom and The Post American World have been translated into more than 25 languages. In 2009, Zakaria opposed anti-apartheid and divestment and argued that Yale should not divest from its holdings in South Africa.
As a student in the mid-1980s, he argued that the University of Yale should have more intellectual range and divest from South Africa, which is more intellectual than it is today. In 2010, he wrote that the university should divest its South African holdings in no matter what they do, no matter the root of the problem. In 2012, he said, ‘This is my team and I’m going to root for them no matter how difficult it is. I can’t pick sides but to explain what I think is happening on the ground. I’m not part of my job. which is not to pick sides… which I feel that my job is to explain.’ He is also a contributing editor for the Atlantic Media group, which includes The Atlantic Monthly. In August 2010 he moved to Time to serve as editor at-large and columnist. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University in 1986 and later gained a PhD in government from Harvard University in 1993. He attended the Cathedral and John Connon School in Mumbai, India, to study international relations. His father was a politician associated with the Indian National Congress and an Islamic theologian. His mother, Fatima Zakaria, was his father’s second wife. She was for a time the editor of The Sunday Times of India. He has written three books, including The Unusual Origins of America’s World Role and In Defense of a Liberal Education.
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