News: Thomas Friedman

If you're familiar with Thomas Friedman's work, you may have come across his idea of pizza serving as an instrument for sharing cultures: I take some

What will post-industrial society look like? Why, just like pre-industrial society -- a few rich people and a lot of poor people. Like Brazil. Like India. Like Russia. The U.S. is becoming a post-industrial society. It is heading for bankruptcy, the inevitable result of the huge trade deficits we are running with the rest of the world...

Thomas Friedman is puzzled: Obama "speaks so well" yet he "can’t come up with a clear, simple, repeatable narrative to explain his politics."Look out. Here it is again: the "he speaks well" compliment that white people bestow on black people. It was embarrassing and hackneyed 40 years ago. But still it lives.

"global weirding,"& video from Pew's new climate project; This was a good week for climate change thought leadership online. The head of Green for All wrote about what the 60s civil rights movement can teach us, Thomas Friedman wrote on new ways of talking about climate science, & Pew released a new video about how the military has a stake in stop

The New York Times’ leading in-house global warming obsessive, Thomas Friedman, has quite a column today. It is more a tantrum. Maybe it’s that possible conflict of interest — I’m not talking about the 7.5 bathroom Bethesda mansion with no visible signs of windmills marring the vista of Mr. “I am a clean-energy hawk.