![]() |
|
![]() |
![]() Thomas L. FriedmanThe New York Times |
We may be witnessing a major realignment of the Middle East.
We used to dream big. Now we’re increasingly thinking short term.
Democracy depends on understanding the connection.
If we don’t find a solution fast, China will pass us economically.
He’s not very important to us, but he keeps stalking us.
Once we take care of the pandemic, we need to sort this out.
Not everything he did was bad. But the good came at a high price.
There still will be a place for principled Republicans.
This time they’ll fail. But their disloyalty to America is clear.
American politics will be shaped by the influence of the monarch of Mar-a-Lago.
She could be at the forefront of helping a part of America that’s been left behind.
With the assassination by Israel of Iran’s top nuclear warhead designer, the Middle East is promising to complicate Joe Biden’s job from day one....
With so many families gathering, in person or virtually, for this most unusual Thanksgiving after this most unusual election, if you’re looking for...
So how do I feel two weeks after our election? Awed and terrified. I am in awe at the expression of democracy that took place in America. It was our...
On Saturday morning I was sitting in the kitchen with my wife, Ann, who was stirring her Cream of Wheat, when out of nowhere she surprised me with a...
We still do not know who is the winner of the presidential election. But we do know who is the loser: the United States of America. We have just...
There is no escaping it: America is on the ballot on Tuesday — the stability and quality of our governing institutions, our alliances, how we treat...
This is my last regular column before Election Day, so what is there left to say? Instead of giving you an answer, let me leave you with a question,...
The good Lord works in mysterious ways. He (She?) threw a pandemic at us at the exact same time as a tectonic shift in the way we will learn, work and...
As I watched the first Trump-Biden debate, a vision popped into my head. I imagined that the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party had also...
The most important question today is not what President Trump has learned from his bout with Covid-19. Trump is one of those leaders who never learns...
President Trump has made it unmistakably clear in recent weeks — and even more crystal clear at the Tuesday debate — that there are only two...
President Donald Trump has now made it unmistakably clear that there are only two choices before voters Nov. 3 — and electing Joe Biden is not one...
Whenever I talk about Covid-19 or climate change with skeptics, I use a simple analogy: Imagine that your child is sick with a disease and you decide...
Having covered Arab-Israel diplomacy for more than 40 years, I have to say that the normalization agreements signed Tuesday between Israel and the...
About four years ago, without asking anybody, I changed my job description. It used to be “New York Times foreign affairs columnist.” Instead, I...
There’s one thing about the people on the Trump team that I almost admire: When they do blurt out the truth, they really tell you the truth — in a...
If Joe Biden is elected president, his top foreign policy challenge will be China — but not the China that he dealt with under Barack Obama. It will...
Here is a sentence I never in a million years thought that I would ever write or read: This November, for the first time in our history, the United...
For once, I am going to agree with President Trump in his use of his favorite adjective: “huge.” The agreement brokered by the Trump...