Thomas Friedman

The American people didn’t demand that we torture detainees and embark on permanent war after 9/11. Our politicians and pundits did.

At the fifth annual Women in the World Summit, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman spoke with IMF director Christine Lagarde and former secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The full transcript of the panel is below.

As the two candidates face off in the 2012 election, the books they’ve read recently and their professed favorites also go head to head. Who wins? Note: most titles come from Newsweek’s “Obama’s Book Club” and Buzzfeed’s “Mitt’s Reading List”.

Bleak stuff from Thomas Friedman on Charlie Rose. The Times columnist says the days of Rooseveltian social guarantees and Reagan-era deregulation are over: "Being in politics," he says, is now "about taking things away from people."

Can star power save the country? Thomas Friedman isn't so sure, and he says we should just look at the soon-to-be failed state of California, which is just an "off-Broadway" version of Washington starring the Governator. Charlie Rose

Tom Friedman, appearing on 'Morning Joe,' says he doesn't know Hamas' long-term strategy, but says its rocket attacks, if continued, will kill a two-state solution.