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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.

Fareed Zakaria

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