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But now, we are becoming suspicious of the very things we have long celebrated - free markets, trade, immigration, and technological change. And all this is happening when the tide is going our way. Just as the world is opening up, America is closing down.

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Fareed Zakaria
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 20
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