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The Fight to Save American Democracy - A Fareed Zakaria Special

As America reaches the first anniversary of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, CNN's Fareed Zakaria examines the state of the threats to American DemocracyHe looks at the evidence that the United States is turning away from Democracy, even as the entire world follows a similar trend. As always, Zakaria offers lessons from American history and abroad to meet this defining struggle of these deeply troubling times. Interviewed for The Fight to Save American Democracy are: Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary of State (Clinton Administration, 1997-2001); author, Fascism: A Warning (2019); Anne Applebaum, author, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (2021); Benjamin Ginsberg, Republican election lawyer; Benjamin Carter Hett, author, The Nazi Menace: Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Road to War (2021); Robert Kagan, contributing columnist, The Washington Post; Steven Levitsky, co-author, How Democracies Die (2019); Jon Meacham, author, Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship (2004); Lisa Pine, author, Debating Genocide (2018); and Daniel Ziblatt, co-author, How Democracies Die (2019).

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