Thomas Friedman

The New York Times

nytfriedmanforum.com — Web site for The New York Times Next New World Conference June 20, 2013

The New York Times

nytfriedmanforum.com — Web site for The New York Times Next New World Conference June 20, 2013

Blowing a Whistle

nytimes.com — I'm glad I live in a country with people who are vigilant in defending civil liberties.

The Internship - Not the Movie - NYTimes.com

nytimes.com — THE NEW YORKER last week carried a cartoon of a man delivering a commencement address to a graduating class, all in caps and gowns, and his advice was: "It's an intern-eat-intern world out there!"

Goodbye to All That

nytimes.com — 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.

How to Put America Back Together Again

nytimes.com — UNTIL we fully understand what turned two brothers who allegedly perpetrated the Boston Marathon bombings into murderers, it is hard to make any policy recommendation other than this: We need to redouble our efforts to make America stronger and healthier so it remains a vibrant counterexample to whatever bigoted ideology may have gripped these young men.

Shanti Bhavan's 15th Anniversary Celebration

youtube.com — We have a program that works. We need your help to make it grow. Buy your tickets or sponsor one of our children by April 25. sbbenefit.org Credits Editor- Misha Kozlov [Go Robot! Editorial] Original Music- John 'Scrapper' Sneider [Storefront Music] Sound Mix and Sound Design- Elizabeth McClanahan [Heard City]

We’ve Wasted Our Timeout

nytimes.com — YES, it's true - a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. But a "timeout" is also a terrible thing to waste, and as I look at the world today I wonder if that's exactly what we've just done.

My Little (Global) School

nytimes.com — 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.

Need a Job? Invent It

nytimes.com — WHEN Tony Wagner, the Harvard education specialist, describes his job today, he says he's "a translator between two hostile tribes" - the education world and the business world, the people who teach our kids and the people who give them jobs.