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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

Friedman: The tweet Trump could never send Tehran

After violent protests recently exploded across Iran, President Donald Trump vowed to differentiate himself from President Barack Obama by openly tweeting his support for the demonstrators. ...

DATE: Jan 25, 2018 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Friedman: How Trump made Putin’s Christmas

At the end of this banner stock market year, you can bet that major business publications will be naming their investor of the year. You can stop now. I have the winner, and nobody is even c...

DATE: Dec 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Friedman: Alabama says no to Trump’s tribalism

There are so many things I could say right now after watching Doug Jones defeat Roy Moore in the Senate race in Alabama, but for me it comes down to just two words: “Thank you.” T...

DATE: Dec 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Friedman: An obsession with Iran Is driving the Mideast and U.S. crazy

If there is a common denominator explaining so many recent events in the Middle East – actions by Saudi Arabia, the U.S., Syria, Israel and Yemen – it can be expressed in one word: Iran. Eve...

DATE: Dec 7, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Friedman: Saudi Arabia’s ‘Arab Spring’ arrives, at long last

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — I never thought I’d live long enough to write this sentence: The most significant reform process underway anywhere in the Middle East today is in Saudi Arabia. Yes, yo...

DATE: Nov 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Friedman: China could sell Trump the Brooklyn bridge

There is a saying — “When you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there” — and it perfectly sums up the contrast between China’s President Xi Jinping and President Donald Tr...

DATE: Nov 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Friedman: Attention – Saudi Prince in a Hurry

To understand the upheaval that is taking place in Saudi Arabia today, you have to start with the most important political fact about that country: The dominant shaping political force there...

DATE: Nov 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Friedman: Trump, Niger and connecting the dots

It is easy to ignore the recent story of four U.S. servicemen killed in Niger, the giant state in central Africa, because the place is so remote and the circumstances still so murky. That wo...

DATE: Nov 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Friedman: And then there was one left with integrity intact

In March, I wrote a column in the form of a memo to Secretary of Defense James Mattis, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, then-Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly, CIA Director M...

DATE: Oct 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Friedman: We may all be connected, but no one’s in charge

There is an abiding dream in the tech world that when all the planet’s people and data are connected, it will be a better place. That may prove true. But getting there is turning...

DATE: Oct 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman