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Loving Israel to death

Trump and Congress are on a collision course<br/>with a Jewish democracy

DATE: Mar 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Who do you call at 3 a.m.?

When it comes to foreign policy capabilities,<br/>Democratic candidates have some explaining to do

DATE: Mar 24, 2019 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Ilhan Omar, AIPAC and me

I’m a Jew from her hometown but I’m an American first – and I can’t see<br/>how the congresswoman is trying to promote peace in the Middle East

DATE: Mar 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

More schools, fewer tanks

What the Mideast needs from the U.S. now is not force but education

DATE: Feb 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

A president with no shame, a party with no spine

If your puppy makes a mess on your carpet and you shout “Bad dog,” there is a good chance that puppy’s ears will droop, his head will bow and he may even whimper. In other words, even a pupp...

DATE: Jul 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Friedman: Becoming Ugly America will make us less secure

First Donald Trump remade the Republican Party in his own image, and now he is trying to remake America the same way ‑ into a selfish, dishonest country with no close friends, totally unpred...

DATE: Jun 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Friedman: The U.S. and China are finally having it out

With the arrival in Beijing this week of the United States’ top trade negotiators, you might think that the U.S. and China are about to enter high-level talks to avoid a trade war and that t...

DATE: May 3, 2018 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Friedman: Is Putin a CIA agent?

President Donald Trump’s steadfast reluctance to say anything negative about Russia is so striking that a former director of national intelligence, James Clapper, once observed that Vladimir...

DATE: Apr 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Friedman: Facebook’s problem – and ours

There is so much news these days that it’s hard to distinguish one big story from another. But for me the most consequential story of late was that a self-driving car operated by Uber – with...

DATE: Mar 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Friedman: Get me back my Turkey

Many years ago, the Israeli Bedouin expert Clinton Bailey told me a story about a Bedouin chief who discovered one day that his favorite turkey had been stolen. He called his sons together a...

DATE: Mar 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Freidman: Get out of Facebook and into the NRA’s face

Cameron Kasky, a 17-year-old at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who survived last week’s mass shooting, wrote a beautiful essay for CNN.com that declared: “At the end of the day, the st...

DATE: Feb 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Friedman: Can crazy still keep the peace between Israel and Iran?

AT THE SYRIAN BORDER, Golan Heights — Who knew that the future of warfare would present itself with such serene beauty — like one of those warm 19th-century David Roberts’ landscapes of the ...

DATE: Feb 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman