Fareed Zakaria ✓
@FareedZakaria · New York, NY · joined 22 May 2009
WaPo columnist. Host of CNN's GPS, Sundays @ 10am & 1pm ET in the US. Order my latest book, Age of Revolutions, via the link below
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As the midterms approach, @DanaBashCNN took us through pivotal elections in American history featured in her new book "The Elections That Changed the World": https://t.co/mQIdMzhCxP
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Journalist Jacob Weisberg has written a bold new book called "Profiles in Cowardice," which looks at eight powerful Americans who he believes showed moral failure by not standing up to Donald Trump. Who are they? I sat down with @jacobwe: https://t.co/lHgJARZ67I
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The conflict between Saudi Arabia and the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen is escalating, after Houthi rebels seized more land along Yemen’s Red Sea coast. Could the fighting spiral out of control? My conversation with @AtlanticCouncil’s @AllisonMinor_: https://t.co/5wmYYh97l8
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Can we rein in AI without slowing down innovation?
In part 2 of our conversation, @MicrosoftAI CEO @mustafasuleyman explained to me why industry-wide "embedded evaluators" could be a promising first step: https://t.co/1EMwI2R4Tf
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On GPS, at 10am & 1pm ET today on @CNN: I’ll discuss the new wave of AI fear with @MicrosoftAI CEO @mustafasuleyman, the Houthi advance in Yemen with the @AtlanticCouncil’s @AllisonMinor_, and notable capitulations to Pres. Trump with “Profiles in Cowardice” author @jacobwe. As
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On GPS, at 10am & 1pm ET Sunday on @CNN …
• How worried should we be about the recent spate of incidents at AI companies in which AI agents appear to have broken free & run rampant? I’ll discuss with one of the pioneers of the AI revolution, @MicrosoftAI CEO @mustafasuleyman
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The current debate between racing ahead and pausing AI misses the point. What do we do with the pause?
The task must be to ensure that AI capability does not outrun human control.
My latest column:
https://t.co/6wJV71GgcI
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Well worth reading and digesting! @mustafasuleyman
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"Our world is at risk of becoming a gangster’s paradise, in which rules matter far less than they once did—and raw power matters more." https://t.co/yw2hHm9Hk0
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Iryna Chechotkina and her husband spent 21 years building a small electronics store into an e-commerce giant that is often called the "Amazon of Ukraine." Then it became a target of Russian attacks. Here's that story: https://t.co/6Qmo9ljx1w
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This week, Ukrainian deep strike units hit targets nearly 3,000 kilometers into Russian territory, their farthest long-range drone strikes so far in the war. In Kyiv, I spoke with a Ukrainian commander whose unit is taking the fight right to the heart of Russia: https://t.co/GBM0
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“Putin fundamentally misunderstands the psychology of democracies."
That’s what Poland’s deputy prime minister & foreign minister @radeksikorski told me in Kyiv, as we discussed Russia’s threat to NATO and the West’s support for Ukraine: https://t.co/4F1SMlYgdM
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What did US negotiators Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, on their first visit to Ukraine last weekend, discuss with @ZelenskyyUa? I asked the Ukrainian president: https://t.co/Ukf6tpfjOv
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On GPS, at 10am & 1pm ET Sunday on @CNN …
• I’ll have a wide-ranging conversation with Ukrainian Pres. @ZelenskyyUa, who joined me for an interview from Canada while on an official visit to garner support. We talked about Ukraine’s path forward as the US tries to restart peace
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The dangerous fantasy of a win-win with Putin https://t.co/rKcEClw0WR
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Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner see Vladimir Putin as a businessman looking for a win-win.
But Putin is something very different: a man who has repeatedly been willing to impose costs on Russia and destabilize other countries if doing so weakens the U.S.
My latest column:
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Don't give up on growth https://t.co/GbrASfHnX9
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One notable country has eschewed the right-wing populist wave sweeping the globe. We discuss which one — and what we can learn from it — in part 2 of my conversation at @aspenideas w/ @cafreeland, @DavidAFrench & @FukuyamaFrancis: https://t.co/KLdJKzPRYg
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There are many signs that liberal democracy itself may be in retreat — from the rise of authoritarianism around the globe to deepening political polarization and declining public trust. At @aspenideas, I sat down for a wide-ranging conversation on the topic with three terrific ht
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In part 2 of our conversation, @DKThomp, author and host of the podcast “Plain English,” told me about two more of the trends he’s observed this year — the state of global violence and AI’s effect on media. https://t.co/WWMKwGxn2o
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I spoke with @DKThomp, host of the podcast “Plain English” and author on Substack, about his deep dive into the “megatrends” that he sees in 2026 — from AI’s impact on jobs to social isolation. Here’s part 1 of our conversation: https://t.co/rfm3ayb21G
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On GPS, at 10am & 1pm ET Sunday on @CNN …
• Twenty-five years ago, the world changed with al Qaeda’s attacks on 9/11. I’ll talk with CNN National Security Analyst @peterbergencnn, who examines the costly wars that followed in his new book, “All The Presidents’ Wars”
• In 2026,
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The imperial presidency. Closing thoughts from my most recent documentary: https://t.co/fKEE7O5n1R
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Today on @CNN, at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET: How did the US president get so powerful? While GPS takes a late-summer break, CNN will air my most recent special report, “The Imperial Presidency.” In it, I tell the story of how presidential power has expanded over decades—and share my
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On @CNN, Sunday at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET: Has the American president become more like a king?
While GPS takes a late-summer break, CNN will air my most recent special report, “The Imperial Presidency”
Pres. Trump has pushed executive power to a new extreme, but US presidents
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@FareedZakaria Via Taiwan media that I just watched:
The President of South Korea expressed:
It is so glad that President Trump cut short military drills between the 🇺🇸 and 🇰🇷. It would help to stabilize the Peace on the Korean Peninsula.
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@FareedZakaria Well ya know: if super-intelligent AI will liekely lead to human extinction, and if data centers are necessary to create super-intelligent AI, it shouldn't be too hard to see why so many of us are against them. It's kind of like parrying a knife attack.
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@FareedZakaria “If there's one thing most Democrats and Republicans agree on, it's how much they hate data centers.”
This is how China wins.
In fact, they probably already have.
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@FareedZakaria Not the top Republican. https://t.co/AnUfzIpiOe
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Against accounts of the same size
33 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 1M–10M follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.
Median views45 621this account14 648median for 1M–10M
Reach, %3.11%this account0.74%median for 1M–10M
Engagement, %0.69%this account0.70%median for 1M–10M
| Metric | This account | Median for 1M–10M | Ratio |
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| Median views per post | 45 621 | 14 648 | 3.11× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 3.11% | 0.74% | 4.20× |
| Engagement rate | 0.69% | 0.70% | 0.98× |
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Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.30%12 Sep
0.88%13 Sep
1.76%
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0.27%16 Sep
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 1M–10M accounts is 0.70%.
What the audience does
Likes63.6%7 262 in total
Reposts16.3%1 855 in total
Replies4.1%473 in total
Quotes1.0%112 in total
Bookmarks15.0%1 711 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
Followers by day
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Daily snapshots since 23 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.
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