Thomas L. Friedman

Donald Trump is too grave a threat to America. Democrats need a nominee who can unite the country and articulate a compelling vision for it.

You have to wonder if American “friends” of Israel have any clue about the nature of Israel’s government.

Our society is losing sight of qualities that kept America strong, like responsibility and civility but also the capacity to feel shame.

Netanyahu’s government can’t ignore what the world is saying about the need for a Palestinian state.

I don’t think Biden fully understands his “old friend” Netanyahu. Israeli defense officials are sending a clear warning.

In how the president made his announcement, he enabled Netanyahu to look like an innocent victim

I don’t think the protests are antisemitic. But they undercut the only fair and just solution to the war.

Netanyahu is making his nation more like the worst of the old kingdom, and the crown prince is making his kingdom more like the best of the old Jewish state.

Israel is facing one of the most fateful choices it has ever had to make.

Support leadership change in Iran, Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Without that, there’s zero chance for resolution.

There now needs to be a large, sustained, global initiative to isolate Iran.

Israel is at a strategic point in its war in Gaza and there is every indication that Benjamin Netanyahu is going to choose the wrong path.

America’s Mideast strategy depends on Israel partnering with non-Hamas Palestinians. Netanyahu is making that impossible.

Things have gone terribly wrong in Gaza. They could get worse soon.

There’s another Middle East conflict going on, and U.S. soldiers are on the front lines of it.

Israel’s very legitimacy is being undermined by the enormous casualties in Gaza and its government’s failure to provide a credible postwar plan.

Lindsey Graham, J.D. Vance, Mike Johnson and other Republicans are waving the white flag of surrender on Ukraine, all at Trump’s behest.

Neither Hamas nor Netanyahu will be a partner in the plan, but global pressure could still be effective.

What the president and the Saudi crown prince need to do.

Deep listening, to criticism and praise, is a sign of respect.

How the country and the world are defined is in Congress’s hands.

The natural world can tell us a lot about volatile political relationships.

Thomas L. Friedman on what he hopes a “Biden Doctrine” for the region will look like.

America’s approach to Iran, a Palestinian state and Saudi Arabia are at the heart of a possible strategic realignment in the Middle East.

This is no ordinary moment in world affairs.

Israel has been at war with Hamas for over 100 days and still has over 100 hostages to recover, but Netanyahu’s No. 1 focus is Netanyahu.

The secretary of state says the poison underlying the conflict is the inability to see the humanity of the other side.

The Israel-Hamas war was not as inevitable as you might think.

The Biden administration needs to do more than give gentle nudges on the war.

A legitimate Palestinian partner and a commitment to negotiating a two-state solution are key.

Wiping out Hamas is an unattainable goal, and getting stuck in Gaza would be a disaster.

It’s actually three wars, and there’s one keystone that we have to get right.

Chasing some rays of hope in this dark moment for Israelis and Palestinians.

It is time for a Biden peace plan.

After traveling across Israel and the West Bank, I now understand why so much has changed.

Israel, Iran, Ukraine and Russia are driving so much about geopolitics today.

Hamas will never again govern Gaza, and Israel will not govern a post-Hamas Gaza.

Threats to Israel are multipronged, including Iran and its proxies but also narratives from Western progressives and social media, Palestinians in the occupied territories and internal divisions.

Both Israelis and Palestinians must behave in ways that we can support. No more blank checks.

The Netanyahu government and President Biden have smarter options.

If you think Israel is now crazy, it is because Hamas punched it in the face. So now Israel believes it must restore deterrence by proving that it can outcrazy Hamas.

As the conflict between Israel and Hamas unfolds, the columnist Thomas Friedman shares his perspective on the evolving situation and what he’s watching for.

It would be a mistake to give Hamas what it wants: an overreaction like an invasion of Gaza.

The shock waves of the Hamas attack on Israel will reach Iran, Saudi Arabia and Ukraine.

That was not the plan.

With age comes wisdom.

Three questions Biden should ask Netanyahu at Wednesday’s meeting.

Ukraine is a game-changer for the West, rivaling the importance of German unification, and the European Union is the key.

In the quest for a peace and security deal, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia cannot let Netanyahu turn them into useful idiots.

Netanyahu’s power grab violates a principle that has held the country together.

Senior Biden officials are in Riyadh on Thursday exploring the possibility of some kind of U.S.-Saudi-Israeli-Palestinian understanding.

Mr. President, this Israeli government needs another dose of your tough love about our shared interests and about U.S. strategic interests.

In a rare move, President Biden publicly voiced his support for the monthslong democracy protests underway in Israel.

Israel’s extremist governing coalition is going too far on too many fronts.

The events playing out in Russia last weekend felt like the trailer for the next James Bond movie.

It’s a place where rules are for suckers, norms are for fools, truths are pliable and people of high character are banished.

My recent journey through the Middle East was unlike anything I’d ever experienced in a region that has long been my second home.

The only way to have a rational discussion about immigration is to do everything possible to secure the southern border like never before.

He will do anything to justify the terrible losses he has piled up in the name of a country where defeated leaders don’t retire peacefully.

Social media illustrated some of the perils of unchecked technology.

America can’t afford for voters worried about Biden’s age to be turned off by his running mate.

A trip to Beijing and Taiwan showed me how the United States and China are fated to cooperate and doomed to compete.

The Israeli prime minister has become an irrational actor.

I just saw magic, and it’s the future.

The two leaders have gotten an awful lot wrong.

The effect of Netanyahu’s policies can’t be dismissed.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s attack on the judiciary is throwing Israel into chaos.

Imagine the start of her campaign if she weren’t pandering to the MAGA crowd.

The greatest risk to Israel in the prime minister’s radical judicial plan is now coming into focus.

The president’s statement could energize opposition to Netanhayu’s plan to weaken judicial independence.

In the war’s first year, America and its allies have had it relatively easy. Will the West bear any burden to uphold a liberal world order?

The president should give Netanyahu some tough love.

The future may bring a one-state solution, a two-state solution or one really big mess.

The fate of the Jordan River may tell us a lot about the future of Middle East relations.

These very different American leaders explain why the peaceful transfer of power and the legitimacy of our democratic system are so critical.

Most election deniers who lost last week have conceded and did not claim fraud. That doesn’t absolve them from embracing Trump’s Big Lie in the first place.

Democracy survived the midterms, but we’re far from safe.

Bibi Netanyahu is poised to form a government with allies once seen as completely outside the norms and boundaries of Israeli politics.

Four trends have led to the end of the steady integration of the Chinese economy with the West.

When it comes to energy, the West wants five incompatible things at once.

A battle over computer chips could have more long-term global impact than the Ukraine war.

Putin’s motivation for OPEC’s price hike is no mystery.

He has set in motion forces that are turning Russia into a giant North Korea.

To fully see the destructive impact of the Ukraine war, listen to the Indigenous people who are guardians of some of the world’s remote ecosystems.

But here are three possibilities.

To defeat petro-Putinism in Europe, U.S. energy policy has to be the arsenal of democracy.

The timing could not be worse. The Ukraine war is not over.

Our energy policy is a mess. The president needs to devise a new strategy with America’s biggest oil producers.

Why was I so sure that economic growth required a free flow of information?

An existential question continues to haunt Israel.