February 6, 2010
Middle East
Postcard From Yemen
“Yemen has the resources to save itself, but they need to be mobilized by better governance. Without that, the Qaeda virus, still controllable, will spread.”
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#4 Thomas Friedman
The New York Times
Thomas Friedman, a foreign-affairs columnist for The New York Times, has won three Pulitzer Prizes.
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Combining the reporting chops that earned him two Pulitzers and the knack for distilling complex global trends into catchphrases that helped win the third, Friedman has popularized and recast debates on the Arab-Israeli conflict, globalization, and the environment, and gained a wide following among business leaders the world over. His books have succeeded in terms of both sales and defining the conventional wisdom.
Friedman's writings on globalization, particularly in his 2006 book, The World Is Flat, rarely fail to ignite spirited debates. Opponents have accused him of glossing over the destructive side of integrating the world’s economies, while supporters praise his proposed solutions for everything from developing-world poverty to global warming.
Combining the reporting chops that earned him two Pulitzers and the knack for distilling complex global trends into catchphrases that helped win the third, Friedman has popularized and recast debates on the Arab-Israeli conflict, globalization, and the environment, and gained a wide following among business leaders the world over. His books have succeeded in terms of both sales and defining the conventional wisdom.
Friedman's writings on globalization, particularly in his 2006 book, The World Is Flat, rarely fail to ignite spirited debates. Opponents have accused him of glossing over the destructive side of integrating the world’s economies, while supporters praise his proposed solutions for everything from developing-world poverty to global warming.
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February 2, 2010
Recovering from Recession
When Economics Meets Politics
“Heart surgery is a very complex thing. You wouldn’t want yours done by a plumber or a politician.”
January 30, 2010
State Of The Union
Never Heard That Before
“If the two parties could get together and remove the growing sense that our country is politically paralyzed, you would not need another dime of stimulus money.”
January 26, 2010
Bernanke's Reappointment
Adults Only, Please
“President Obama is so much better when he takes a heated, knotty issue and talks to the country like adults. He is so much better at making us smarter than angrier.”
January 23, 2010
The President
More (Steve) Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
“In the long run, Americans don’t rally to angry politicians. They do not bring out the best in us. We rally to inspirational, hopeful ones. They bring out the best in us. And right now we need to be at our best.”
January 19, 2010
China
Is China an Enron? (Part 2)
“Chinese companies today are both more backward and more advanced than most Americans realize.”
January 16, 2010
Harry Reid backlash
What's Our Sputnik?
“We just keep thinking we can do it all -- be focused, frightened and frivolous. We can’t. We don’t have the money. We don’t have the time.”
January 12, 2010
China
Is China the Next Enron?
“I asked several Taiwanese businessmen whether they would 'short' China. They vigorously shook their heads no as if I’d asked if they’d go one on one with LeBron James.”
January 9, 2010
China
Who's Sleeping Now?
“We can’t afford to be asleep with an invigorated China wide awake.”
January 6, 2010
Airport Security
Father Knows Best
“Surely, the most important, interesting — and, yes, heroic — figure in the whole Christmas Day Northwest airliner affair was the would-be bomber’s father, the Nigerian banker Alhaji Umaru Mutallab.”
December 23, 2009
Climate Change
The Copenhagen That Matters
“As I listened to Denmark’s minister of economic and business affairs describe how her country used higher energy taxes to stimulate innovation in green power and then recycled the tax revenues back to Danish industry and consumers to make it easier for them to make and buy the new clean technologies, it all sounded so, well, intelligent.”
December 19, 2009
Copenhagen Climate Conference
Off to the Races
“An Earth Race led by America -- built on markets, economic competition, national self-interest and strategic advantage -- is a much more self-sustaining way to reduce carbon emissions than a festival of voluntary, nonbinding commitments at a U.N. conference.”
December 16, 2009
War in Afghanistan
www.jihad.com
“The Virtual Afghanistan is the network of hundreds of jihadist Web sites that inspire, train, educate and recruit young Muslims to engage in jihad against America and the West.”
December 14, 2009
Recovering from Recession
The Do-It-Yourself Economy
“The Great Recession and Great Inflection are making our companies ultralean, innovative and productive. But with credit still constricted, we’re like a superfit track star with a weak heart. We’ve got to get credit pumping to our industrial muscles again.”
December 9, 2009
Environment
Going Cheney on Climate
“When I see a problem that has even a 1 percent probability of occurring and is “irreversible” and potentially “catastrophic,” I buy insurance. That is what taking climate change seriously is all about.”