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Friedman: With China’s technological ascent, Trump is right to press on the trade imbalance

One of the many dangers posed to our society by having a president who’s a serial liar – and who doesn’t behave like an adult, let alone a president – is that we more easily ignore him even ...

Friedman: Trump’s America is the United American Emirate

SEOUL, South Korea – President Donald Trump’s trip to Europe was truly historic. He left our most important allies there so uncertain about America’s commitment to their security...

A road trip through rusting and rising America

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — In his dystopian Inaugural Address, President Donald Trump painted a picture of America as a nation gripped by vast “carnage” – a landscape of “rusted-out factories scatte...

Friedman: Republican party has lost its moral compass

Since President Donald Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey, one question has been repeated over and over: With Democrats lacking any real governing power, are there a few good elected...

Friedman: Owning your own future

PALO ALTO, Calif. – Political analysts will long debate over where Brexit, Trump and Le Pen came from. Many say income gaps. I’d say ... not quite. I’d say income anxiety and the stress over...

Friedman: Is Trump crazy like a fox, or just crazy?

Has the first 100 days of the presidency made Donald Trump nuts? I don’t ask that question as a doctor. I don’t do medical diagnoses. I ask it as a newspaper reader. You read all ...

Friedman: So a Hindu, a Muslim and a Jew play golf in Dubai

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — President Donald Trump has already played an incredible amount of golf in his first 100 days. He says he needs the break. I sympathize, because I need a break f...

Coal museum sees future in solar; Trump does not

Did you catch this gem on CNN.com from April 6? “The Kentucky Coal Mining Museum in Benham, owned by Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College, is switching to solar pow...

Trump’s foreign policy all over the map on Syrian crisis

The Trump foreign policy team has been all over the map on what to do next in Syria – topple the regime, intensify aid to rebels, respond to any new attacks on innocent civilians. ...

Dealing with Syrian situation is now up to Trump

With each passing day our new president is discovering that every big problem he faces is like Obamacare – if there were a good, easy solution it would have been found already, and even the ...

Thomas Friedman: Trump is a Chinese agent

The big story everyone is chasing is whether President Donald Trump is a Russian stooge. Wrong. That’s all a smoke screen. Trump is actually a Chinese stooge. He is clearly out to make China...

Calling on ‘a few good men’ to rein in a president

Memo To: Secretary of Defense James Mattis, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly, CIA Director Mike Pompeo and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson ...