Award-winning journalist, translator, and university lecturer
Natasha Hakimi Zapata is an award-winning journalist and university lecturer based in Europe. Her book Another World Is Possible is forthcoming from The New Press, and her articles appear regularly in The Nation, In These Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She has also received several Southern California Journalism and National Arts & Entertainment Journalism awards, most recently in 2022 for her work as a foreign correspondent.
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The Nation · October 20th, 2022
Liz Truss or No Liz Truss, Things Are Bleaker in Britain Than Anyone Realizes
As jaws drop around the world over the resignation of the UK’s shortest-lived prime minister, life here is getting considerably worse by the day.
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The Nation · August 1st, 2022
Boris Johnson’s (Far From Final) Bill for Damages
While the elderly white men who run Britain’s Conservative Party chose between two deeply depressing choices for new leader, let’s take a minute to reckon just how much ruin the disgraced prime minister has inflicted on his country.
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Los Angeles Review of Books · April 4th, 2022
“To Know No Nation Will Be Home”: A Conversation with Solmaz Sharif
An interview with Solmaz Sharif about her poetic journey, as well as why she couldn’t write much in the Trump years, and whether poetry can ever become a home to the displaced.
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In These Times · August 24th, 2021
Sanctions Didn't Help Cubans, Iranians or Venezuelans. They Won't Help Afghans.
Economic punishment is taking a brutal toll during the pandemic.
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In These Times · July 19th, 2021
How Rich Countries Can End Vaccine Apartheid
Unlike world leaders, activists saw the moral crisis coming since the start of the pandemic and quickly came up with a number of actionable plans to create equitable access to life-saving vaccines.
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Los Angeles Review of Books · July 2nd, 2021
“America Is a Myth”: A Conversation with Natalie Diaz
An interview with poet Natalie Diaz, the first Latina to win the Pulitzer Prize, about her most recent collection, "Postcolonial Love Poem."
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The Nation · June 4th, 2021
Covid-19 Is a Boon for UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Buds
The British government’s latest “test to travel” scheme is providing yet another opportunity for Conservative officials’ friends—like Randox founder Peter FitzGerald—to profit from the crisis.
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In These Times · May 6th, 2021
Joe Biden Shouldn't Shy Away From the Radicalism of the New Deal
‘Why the New Deal Matters’ author Eric Rauchway explains why embracing FDR’s signature programs is not just a moral imperative—it’s good politics.
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In These Times · March 30th, 2021
The UK's Vaccine Rollout Is the Latest Reminder We Need Universal Healthcare
Britain’s vaccination rate has far outpaced the rest of the West. The triumph belongs to its National Health Service.
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Los Angeles Review of Books · March 23rd, 2021
Family Separation by Any Other Name: On Patricia Engel’s “Infinite Country”
A review of "Infinite Country," the new novel by Patricia Engel, which serves as a reminder that family separation is a long, shameful bipartisan legacy.
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Los Angeles Review of Books · January 6th, 2021
“The World Wakes Up, Enlarged”: A Conversation with Dan Chiasson
An interview with the New Yorker poetry critic and Wellesley professor about his latest book "The Math Campers," poetry in a pandemic, and America's youth awakening.
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ScheerPost · December 21st, 2020
The U.K.’s New COVID-19 Strain and Boris Johnson’s Bloody Blunders
The British prime minister’s pre-Christmas announcement that a new, highly contagious strain of the coronavirus is ripping through England is as shocking as it is maddening.
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Los Angeles Review of Books · November 30th, 2020
Antidotes to Brexit, COVID-19, and Other Afflictions in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet
Ali Smith's four novels powerfully capture living British history through intimate relationships playing out before the backdrop of sociopolitical turmoil in both the past and present.
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The Nation · October 5th, 2020
Extinction Rebellion’s Long Overdue Reckoning With Race
After experiencing a barrage of criticism for its lack of diversity, has the climate activist group finally made inclusivity a priority?
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The Nation · June 22nd, 2020
How to Destroy a National Health Service
Over several decades, a toxic combination of underfunding and stealth privatization efforts have brought Britain’s widely beloved NHS to its knees
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The Nation · April 20th, 2020
How Brexit Infected Britain’s Coronavirus Response
Boris Johnson’s government keeps promising to “Get Brexit Done,” even as the deadly pandemic ravages the country.
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Truthdig · October 4th, 2019
Sara Nelson Is the Face of America's Resurgent Labor Movement
The flight attendant who made national headlines during the government shutdown as she called for a general strike now wants labor’s top job.
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Truthdig · July 15th, 2019
I Know What It’s Like to Be Told to ‘Go Back’ to My Own Country
As the daughter of Iranian and Mexican immigrants, the president’s racist attacks on four congresswomen of color have struck me to my core.
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Truthdig · April 22nd, 2019
The Most Horrifying Look at Monsanto Yet
Samanta Schweblin has terrified readers across the globe precisely because she tells familiar stories we should all dread.
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