Another World is Possible: Lessons for America From Around the Globe

Another World Is Possible offers real-world solutions to America’s thorniest social problems—from housing to retirement to drug addiction—based on original reporting. Intrepid journalist Natasha Hakimi Zapata, who is London-based, has traveled around the world, from Costa Rica to New Zealand, and Estonia to Singapore, uncovering how different countries solve the problems that plague the United States and other countries. Through her in-depth reporting, including interviews with senior government officials, activists, industry professionals, and the ordinary people affected by their policies, Hakimi Zapata provides a clear-eyes assessment of the history, challenges, cost-effectiveness, and real-world impact of these programs. The result is a compelling, frame-shifting account of how we might live differently and create a safer, healthier, more sustainable future.

“It only takes a few months outside the country to realize that political culture in the U.S. is profoundly provincial; to see that the richest nation on Earth suffers from a debilitating lack of imagination. Natasha Hakimi Zapata relies on years of global experience to show U.S. Americans what they are missing. Often, U.S. political elites act as if other societies barely even exist; the sympathetic reporting in Another World Is Possible makes them feel deeply real.”

— Vincent Bevins, author of The Jakarta Method and If We Burn.

About our guests:

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's 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 2024 for her work as a foreign correspondent.

Vincent Bevins is the author of The Jakarta Method (2020 and If We Burn (2023). Previously, he served as a foreign correspondent in South America and Southeast Asia and now contributes to The Nation, The New York Times Magazine, and the London Review of Books.