Tom Friedman is an internationally known journalist and author. His foreign affairs column in The New York Times, which he has written since 1995, reports on U.S. domestic politics and foreign policy, Middle East conflicts, international economics, environment, biodiversity and energy. Friedman’s previous roles at the Times, which he joined in 1981, include Jerusalem bureau chief, chief diplomatic correspondent and international economics correspondent. He is the author of seven best-selling books: “Thank you For Being Late”; “That Used to Be Us” (co-written with Michael Mandelbaum); “Hot, Flat, and Crowded”; “The World Is Flat”; “Longitudes and Attitudes”; “The Lexus and the Olive Tree” and “From Beirut to Jerusalem.” Friedman has won the Pulitzer Prize three times for his work at the Times and the National Book Award for “From Beirut to Jerusalem.”
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Journalist Tom Friedman reflects on 28 years of reporting.
The generative artificial intelligence genie is out of the bottle. When we look back 30 years from now, what will we be able to point to that we got right?
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As the prospect of mass implementation of artificial intelligence begins to alter realistic expectations of its impacts (large and small, positive and negative), the consequen...
As the threat of terrorist attacks collides with Europe’s worst migration crisis since WWII, anti-migration sentiments are at an all-time high. With the world closing its door...
Some nations implode; others explode, and in the United States, we are witnessing unprecedented political turmoil in the recent primaries. There is one force that underlies th...