Fareed Zakaria hosts Fareed Zakaria GPS for CNN Worldwide and is a columnist for The Washington Post. Zakaria is also a contributing editor for The Atlantic and a best-selling author, whose books include The Future of Freedom, The Post-American World, and In Defense of a Liberal Education. Earlier in his career, he served as editor of Newsweek International, managing editor of Foreign Affairs, a columnist for Time, an analyst for ABC News, and the host of Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria on PBS. He also regularly hosts primetime specials for CNN Worldwide. Two of the most recent specials dealt with the rise of hate and America’s gun culture.
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
