Friedman and Mandelbaum describe how America faces four major challenges--globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic deficits, and its pattern of energy consumption--and how it is failing to meet them. The end of the cold war blinded the nation to the need to address these issues; but Mandelbaum and Friedman show how our history provides the key to doing so, and explain how the paralysis of our political system and...

Thomas L. Friedman shows that we have entered an age of dizzying acceleration--and explains how to live in it. Due to an exponential increase in computing power, climbers atop Mount Everest enjoy excellent cell-phone service and self-driving cars are taking to the roads. A parallel explosion of economic interdependency has created new riches as well as spiraling debt burdens. Meanwhile, Mother Nature is also seeing dramatic changes as carbon levels...

An update on globalization through the examination of foreign policy and economic issues, and what it means to governments and societies and their ability to adapt.