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Yemen finds a civilized way to reform its government

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Published May 14th, 2013 - 12:05AM
SANAA, YEMEN — If you want to know how bad things can go in Syria, study Iraq. If you want to know how much better things could have gone, study Yemen. Say what? Yemen?
What will follow ‘Fayyadism’ and its effort toward peace?

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Published April 25th, 2013 - 12:05AM
On April 13, Prime Minister Salam Fayyad of the Palestinian Authority resigned. It was an easy development to miss, but not one to be ignored. It was very bad news, because Salam Fayyad was the “Arab Spring” before there was an Arab Spring.
Terror steals our trust – but we’ll take it back

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Published April 18th, 2013 - 12:05AM
Looking at scenes of the Boston sidewalk a few hours after Monday’s bombing — torn clothing, bloodstains, shards of glass — I found my mind going back to a similar sidewalk in Tel Aviv in September 2003.
US middle-class students badly lag global peers

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Published April 4th, 2013 - 12:05AM
There was a time when middle-class parents in America could be – and were – content to know that their kids’ public schools were better than those in the next neighborhood over. As the world has shrunk, though, the next neighborhood over is now Shanghai or Helsinki.
Time and a new generation needed to reach democracy in Iraq

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Published March 21st, 2013 - 12:05AM
As we mark the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, three things are clear:
Keystone pipeline approval should come with hefty conditions

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Published March 12th, 2013 - 12:05AM
I hope the president turns down the Keystone XL oil pipeline. (Who wants the U.S. to facilitate the dirtiest extraction of the dirtiest crude from tar sands in Canada’s far north?) But I don’t think he will. So I hope that Bill McKibben and his 350.org coalition go crazy.
Kerry should break all the diplomacy rules and go to the people

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Published January 29th, 2013 - 12:05AM
First, my congratulations and condolences to John Kerry for being nominated to be our next secretary of state. There is no one better for the job today and no worse job to have today. It is no accident that we’ve started measuring our secretaries of state more by miles traveled than milestones achieved. It is bloody hard to do big diplomacy anymore.


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