Award-winning journalist and author of Another World Is Possible
Natasha Hakimi Zapata is an award-winning journalist, translator, and university lecturer based in Europe. Her book Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America From Around the Globe (The New Press) was named a 2025 LitHub Most Anticipated Book and featured in The New York Times Book Review and NPR.
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 2025 for her immigration reporting. She is currently working on her second book, Another City Is Possible, which is forthcoming from The New Press in 2027.
Another World Is Possible is available for purchase now at Bookshop.org, The New Press, Amazon or wherever you like to get your books (you can also request it at your local library). Ebook and audiobook versions are also available, and you can order hard copies in the UK (here and here) and throughout the EU (here), too.
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The Nation · September 16th, 2025
Labour Has Only Itself to Blame for the UK’s New Left-Wing Party
Starmer’s rightward turn and austerity agenda fracture Labour, as Corbyn and Sultana rally disillusioned voters behind a new left alternative.
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Jacobin · May 4th, 2025
To Rebuild Post-Fire, Los Angeles Should Look to Singapore
Months after the fires, Los Angeles is beginning to rebuild, but current proposals don’t address the city’s long-standing housing issues. LA should emulate Singapore, which took a devastating fire as a cue to revolutionize its housing market.
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The Nation · March 13th, 2025
Going for Green: Uruguay’s Renewable Energy Revolution
With no fossil fuel reserves to rely on and domestic demand rising, the country had to get creative—or go broke just trying to keep the lights on. Here’s how they did it.
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The Nation Magazine (September 2024) · August 29th, 2024
The Recent Riots in the UK Should Be a Warning to Kamala Harris
Like the Tories, the new Labour government wants to blame immigration for Britain’s current troubles, but these have less to do with immigration than with deprivation.
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The Nation · August 9th, 2024
Facing Far-Right Riots, Britain’s History—Good and Bad—Repeats Itself
Days of anti-immigrant violence across the United Kingdom were met with powerful anti-racist resistance after a tragedy left the country reeling.
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Los Angeles Review of Books · January 15th, 2024
Race, Money, and the Pursuit of Poetry in the US Today: A Conversation with Megan Fernandes and Edgar Kunz
Megan Fernandes and Edgar Kunz may not write similar poems, but their poetry and their journeys intersect in more ways than one. As they both wrapped up overlapping book tours across the United States and Europe in recent months, I caught up with them via video call.
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The Nation · December 12th, 2023
The Progressive Refugee Policy That Puts the West to Shame
Uganda’s role as a co-convenor of the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva this week should raise urgent questions about the interests behind its much-lauded open-door refugee policy.
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The Nation · November 27th, 2023
The Ghosts of the Worldwide Surveillance Apparatus Show Their Hand
Phantom Parrot, a British documentary now screening in the US, sheds light on the Orwellian technologies being used across borders to repress activists, journalists, and others.
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The Nation · April 24th, 2023
What the UK’s Arrest of a French Publisher Means for Public Intellectuals the World Over
The detention of Ernest Moret raises urgent questions about British authorities targeting public intellectuals at the request of other nations.
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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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