Voters, You Can Have Everything!
There’s no end to the promises of the presidential candidates.
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Thomas L. Friedman became the paper’s foreign affairs Op-Ed columnist in 1995. He joined the paper in 1981, after which he served as the Beirut bureau chief in 1982, Jerusalem bureau chief in 1984, and then in Washington as the diplomatic correspondent in 1989, and later the White House correspondent and economic correspondent.
Mr. Friedman was awarded the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Lebanon) and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Israel). He also won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.
Mr. Friedman is the author of “From Beirut to Jerusalem,” which won the National Book Award in 1989. He has written several other books, including “Hot, Flat and Crowded,” an international best seller.
Born in Minneapolis, Mr. Friedman received a B.A. degree in Mediterranean studies from Brandeis University in 1975. In 1978 he received a master’s in modern Middle East studies from Oxford. His column appears every Sunday and Wednesday.
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The Israelis and Palestinians need America to be blunt about reality if they are to break the paralysis in their internal politics.
Battles between superpowers and superempowered angry men and teams of cybercriminals and cyberterrorists await our next president.
We’re wearing down the planet, and the next president, even a Republican, will be faced with that reality.
It’s better to be wary of getting involved in Syria than rushing to do so.
A new film about Yitzhak Rabin’s 1995 assassination in Israel could serve as a warning about Donald Trump and Ben Carson’s divisive, bigoted campaigns.
It’s time to rate the performances of a number of the people who worked hard to get the agreement or to stop it.
The fallout of collapsing countries continues to spill into our orderly world, and just isolating ourselves won’t change that.
The greatest purveyors of radical Islam aren’t the Iranians, as a general says. The Saudis win that title hands down.
China burns money for its stock market, Russia burns food as a nationalist distraction and the U.S. is now burning pluralism for politics.
Mideast governments that are often focused on bloody conflicts are being stressed by the pressures brought on by Mother Nature.
How I might think about the nuclear agreement if I were an Israeli grocer, an Israeli general or the country’s prime minister.
I’d certainly pay a nickel for the candidates’ thoughts.
Events 36 years ago still shape the region, but that could change.
We can do things to increase the odds that our bet against Iran getting a bomb pays off.
In an exclusive interview, President Obama says the deal is “the most definitive path by which Iran will not get a nuclear weapon.”
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So many presidential candidates. So few daring ideas or trade-offs.
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