Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe

Another World Is Possible is a groundbreaking book that explores real-world solutions to America's most pressing social problems, drawing on original reporting from around the world. It challenges the notion that inequality, climate change, and declining health are intractable and offers innovative programs that address public health, social services, climate change, housing, education, addiction, and more. Through in-depth reporting, Natasha Hakimi Zapata provides a clear-eyed assessment of the history, challenges, cost-effectiveness, and real-world impact of these programs, offering a compelling and frame-shifting account of how we might live differently and create a safer, healthier, more sustainable future.

Format: Hardback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 20 March 2025
Publisher: The New Press

A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book Real-world solutions to Americas thorniest social problems—from housing to retirement to drug addiction—based on original reporting from around the world A new generation of Americans has declared that another world is possible. And yet, the stubborn problems of inequality, climate change, and declining health seem as intractable as ever. Where might different answers lie? Intrepid journalist Natasha Hakimi Zapata has traveled around the world, from Costa Rica to Uganda, and Estonia to Singapore, uncovering how different countries solve the problems that plague the United States. Through in-depth reporting, including interviews with senior government officials, activists, industry professionals, and the ordinary people affected by their policies, Another World Is Possible examines innovative programs that address public health, social services, climate change, housing, education, addiction, and more. In each instance, Hakimi Zapata provides a clear-eyed 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. A work of keen analysis as well as enormous heart and optimism, Another World Is Possible is destined to crack the mold of current debates and to refresh our sense of what might be possible tomorrow.

Weight: 720g
Dimension: 236 x 162 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781620978443