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Tom Friedman
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‘Hama Rules’
‘Trump’s Going to Get Re-elected, Isn’t He?’
A Concerned Citizen’s Plea to America’s Business Leaders
A Festival of Lies
A Great Unraveling Is Underway
A Theory of Everything (Sort Of)
A Warning From the Garden (2007)
A Wonderful Country
After the Pandemic, a Revolution in Education and Work Awaits
America vs. The Narrative
An Open Letter to President Trump (on Coronavirus)
An X-Ray of Dysfunction
And Now for a Bit of Good News...
Another Age of Discovery
Attention: Saudi Prince in a Hurry
Average Is Over
Average Is Over (Part II)
Bibi Netanyahu Makes Trump His Chump
Biden Should Not Debate Trump Unless (what??)
Biden-Cheney 2024?
Calling All Luddites (pdf)
Calling On a Few Good Men
Can’t We Do Better?
Capitalism Version 2012
Collaborate vs. Collaborate
Connecting Trump’s Dots
Democracy Is in Recession
Dems, You Can Defeat Trump in a Landslide
Did You Hear the One About the Bankers?
Do Believe the Hype
Don’t Try This at Home (ME peace)
Donald Trump - Alien to All That’s Great
Donald Trump Voters, Just Hear Me Out
Down With Everything
Dump the G.O.P. for a Grand New Party
Egypt’s Perilous Drift
Egypt’s Three Revolutions
Everyone Is Going All the Way
Forget Trump and Discover the World
From Beirut to Washington
From Hands to Heads to Hearts
From Tel Aviv to Riyadh (2023)
From the Pyramid to the Square
From WikiChina
Get It Right on Gas
Get Out of Facebook and Into the N.R.A.’s Face
Give Chuck a Chance
Green the Bailout
Hard Lines, Red Lines and Green Lines
Hillary, Jeb, Facebook and Disorder
Hong Kong’s Protests Could Be Another Social Media Revolution That Ends in Failure (hmph)
Hope and Change - Part 2
How Clinton Could Knock Trump Out
How Did the Robot End Up With My Job?
How Do We Deal With a Superpower Led by a War Criminal?
How Mexico Got Back in the Game
How Netanyahu Is Trying to Save Himself, Elect Trump and Defeat Harris
How the Attacks on Iran Are Part of a Much Bigger Global Struggle
How to Beat the Bots
How to Defeat Trump
How to Get a Job at Google
How to Monetize Your Closet
How to Stop Trump and Prevent Another Jan. 6
How to Tell That the Chain Saw Is Coming for America
How to Unparalyze Us
How We Broke the World
How We’ve Lost Our Moorings as a Society
I Have Never Been More Afraid for My Country’s Future
I Have Never Been to This Israel Before
I Just Saw the Future. It Was Not in America.
I Made the Robot Do It
I.S. = Invasive Species
If I Had a Hammer
If This Mideast War Is Over, Get Ready for Some Interesting Politics
Ilhan Omar, Aipac and Me
In the War Over Ukraine, Expect the Unexpected
India vs. China vs. Egypt
India’s Innovation Stimulus
Iran Deal Players’ Report Cards
Iran Just Made a Big Mistake. Israel Shouldn’t Follow.
Is Sleepy Joe Biden Making Vladimir Putin Blink?
Israel: Adrift at Sea Alone
Israel: Bits, Bytes and Bombs
Israel: Cease-Fire, Get Hostages, Leave Gaza, Rethink Everything
Israel’s Best Friend
Israel’s Worst Day at War (xlnt)
It’s Already Too Late to Stop the A.I. Threat
It’s Morning in India
It’s the P.Q. and C.Q. as Much as the I.Q.
Just One Question for Trump and Vance: What Is Wrong With You People?
Keep Up the Blanket Coverage of Trump. It Hurts Him.
Let Trump Make Our Trans-Pacific Trade Deal
Make Way for the Radical Center
Mamdani’s Netanyahu Stunt Was a Waste of His Talent and Our Time
Meet the 5 Trump Administrations
Mr. Obama Goes to Israel
My Lunch With President Biden
My President Is Busy
Need a Job? Invent It
Netanyahu Is Making Israel Radioactive
Netanyahu, Prime Minister of the State of Israel-Palestine
Never Forget the Names of These Republicans Attempting a Coup
Obama Should Seize the High Ground
Obama’s Ball and Chain
Obama’s Moment
Order vs. Disorder - Part 2
Our Allies Are Asking: Why Does Putin Still Own Trump?
Our Democracy Is at Stake (2013)
Our New Historical Divide: B.C. and A.C. — the World Before Corona and the World After
Owning Your Own Future
Paging Michael Bloomberg (BS attack on Sanders' HC plan)
Peanut Butter on the Trump Team’s Chins
Please, Israel, Don’t Get Lost in Hamas’s Tunnels
Politicians and the Lies That Matter
Power to the (Blogging) People
Putin Blinked
Putin Had No Clue How Many of Us Would Be Watching
Putin Has No Good Way Out, and That Really Scares Me
Rescue the Rescue
Retweeting Donald Trump
Revolution Hits the Universities
Root Canal Politics
Saudi Arabia’s Arab Spring, at Last
Saudi Time
Self-Driving People, Enabled by Airbnb
Send in the Clowns
Something’s Happening Here
Steal This Movie
Steal This Movie Too
The ‘Useful Idiots’ From America Whom Putin Is Playing Like a Flute (xlnt)
The (G.O.P.) Party’s Over
The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away
The American Civil War, Part II (xlnt)
The Arab Awakening and Israel
The Cancellation of Mother Russia Is Underway
The Disturbing Question at the Heart of the Trump-Zelensky Drama
The Earth Is Full
The Fat Lady Has Sung
The Full Israeli Experience
The Inflection Is Near?
The Land of ‘No Service’
The Man With Pink Hair
The New Physics of Power
The Next First (and Only) 100 Days
The One Danger That Should Unite the U.S. and China
The Other Arab Spring
The Power of Green
The Professors’ Big Stage
The Rise of Popularism
The Smart Way for Trump to End the Israel-Iran War
The Start-Up of You
The Tea Kettle Movement
The Trump G.O.P.’s Plot Against Liz Cheney — and Our Democracy
The U.S. and China Are Finally Having It Out
The Virtual Mosque
The World According to Maxwell Smart - Part 1
The World We’re Actually Living In
The World’s Hot Spot
This Ain’t Yogurt
This Column Is Not Sponsored by Anyone
This Is Just The Start
This Is Not a Test. This Is Not a Test.
This Never Happened With an American President Before
This Time Is Different
Thomas Friedman on Trump’s Desire to Be President for Life
Too Big to Breathe?
Too Good to Check
Trump and Putin vs. America
Trump Is a Chinese Agent
Trump Is China’s Chump
Trump Is Fleecing Us
Trump Lies. China Thrives.
Trump Put His Own Interests Above All in the Iran Deal (xlnt)
Trump, Israel and the Art of the Giveaway
Trump, Niger and Connecting the Dots
Trump: Crazy Like a Fox, or Just Crazy?
Trump: Trying to Remake America in His Own Image
Trump? How Could We?
Trump’s Ambiguous Wink Wink to ‘Second Amendment People’
Trump’s Approach: A Fresh Start or Crazy Reckless?
Trump’s Gilded Gut Instinct
Trump’s Syria Trifecta: A Win for Putin, a Loss for the Kurds and Lots of Uncertainty for Our Allies
Two Ex-Spies and Donald Trump
Up With Egypt
Warning! Everything Is Going Deep: ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’
We Have Never Been Here Before
We’re In a New Everything-Is-Connected Epoch. But What to Call It?
We’ve Wasted Our Timeout
Welcome to the ‘Sharing Economy’
What Bibi Didn’t Say
What Does Morsi Mean for Israel?
What If? (pretty interesting)
What in the World Is Happening in Israel?
What Is Happening to Our World?
What Trump Is Doing Is Not O.K.
Whatever Trump Is Hiding Is Hurting All of Us Now (his most read piece)
When the Cat’s Away … (nice summary of what's broken)
Where American Politics Can Still Work: From the Bottom Up (nice!)
Where Did ‘We’ Go?
Who Are We? (so many bad generalizations!)
Why Are So Many Political Parties Blowing Up? (Part 1)
Why I Am Pro-Life
Why Is Trump Fighting ISIS in Syria?
Why Israel Is Acting This Way
Why Nations Fail
Why Not in Vegas?
Why the Campus Protests Are So Troubling
Why Trump’s Bullying Is Going to Backfire
WikiHillary for President
Win Together or Lose Together
Win, Lose, but No Compromise
You Break It, You Own It
Jumps
Friedman's Books