Natasha Hakimi Zapata is the author of Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe. She is the former foreign editor of Truthdig, and her work has appeared in the Nation, Los Angeles Review of Books, In These Times, Truthdig, Los Angeles Magazine, and elsewhere.

03.12.2025

• Natasha Hakimi Zapata

America’s Problems Are Solvable. Look Beyond Our Borders.

US political discourse is characterized by deep resignation about the high costs and mixed outcomes of our health, housing, education, and childcare systems. But these issues aren’t unfixable — in fact, many other countries have already fixed them.