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Hakimi Zapata
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Natasha Hakimi Zapata is an award-winning journalist, translator, and university lecturer based in Europe covering British politics and international progressive policies ranging from environmental protections to universal social programs. Her book "ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE: Lessons for America From Around the Globe" is forthcoming from The New Press (February, 2025), and her articles appear regularly in The Nation, In These Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She is the former foreign editor of Truthdig and has received several Southern California Journalism and National Arts & Entertainment Journalism awards, most recently in 2024 for her work as a foreign correspondent.
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After the detention of French publisher Ernest Moret in London, I considered how the incident raises urgent questions about British authorities targeting public intellectuals at the request of other nations for The Nation.
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In an in-depth Q&A for In These Times, ‘Why the New Deal Matters’ author Eric Rauchway explains why embracing Franklin D. Roosevelt's signature New Deal programs is not just a moral imperative—it’s good politics.
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A long-form review for the Los Angeles Book Review of "Infinite Country," the new novel by Patricia Engel. In it I examine how the story of Colombian immigrants to the U.S. serves as a reminder that family separation is a long, shameful bipartisan legacy that predates Donald Trump's first administration.
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