Question: Who is the author and Foreign Affairs columnist for the "New York Times" that wrote both Hot, Flat and Crowded and The World is Flat? Thomas L. Friedman 
Context: Nicholas Roosevelt (June 12, 1893 – February 1982) was an American diplomat and journalist.  A member of the Roosevelt family and first-cousin once removed of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, he was born in New York City to James West Roosevelt, a brother of Hilborne Roosevelt, and Laura Henrietta d'Oremieulx.  Brought up in Oyster Bay, New York, he graduated from Harvard University in 1914.  He was an attaché at the American Embassy in Paris, secretary to the American mission to Spain in 1916 and 17, vice-governor of the Philippine Islands in 1930, and U.S. minister to Hungary from 1930 to 1933.  He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a writer for its journal "Foreign Affairs", and a foreign correspondent and editorial writer for the New York Times and New York Herald Tribune from 1921 to 1946.  A prolific author, his autobiography, "A Front Row Seat" (1953), offers a critical view of Franklin D. Roosevelt, a distant cousin, and an inside view of the New York Times.  "Theodore Roosevelt" (1967) drew on Nicholas Roosevelt's unique childhood recollections, his father having been a close friend of Theodore.  He was married to Tirzah Gates, the daughter of California State Senator Egbert Gates.  Her sister, Dorothy Gates, was the first wife of eminent astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky.  He remained lifelong friends with Fritz Zwicky.  He lived in Big Sur, California in later life. R. Nicholas Burns (born January 28, 1956) is a university professor, columnist, lecturer and former American diplomat.  He is currently Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a member of the Board of Directors of the school's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.  At the Harvard Kennedy School, he is Director of The Future of Diplomacy Project and Faculty Chair for the programs on the Middle East and India and South Asia.  He is Director of the Aspen Strategy Group, Senior Counselor at the Cohen Group and serves on the Board of Directors of Entegris, Inc.  He writes a biweekly column on foreign affairs for the Boston Globe and is a senior foreign affairs columnist for GlobalPost.  He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations, Special Olympics, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Atlantic Council, the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, American Media Abroad, the Gennadius Library and the Richard Lounsberry Foundation.  He is Vice Chairman of the American Ditchley Foundation and serves on the Panel of Senior Advisors at Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs.  During his career in the State Department, he was United States Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs within the United States Department of State.  Appointed by President George W. Bush, he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 17, 2005 and was sworn into office by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.  As Under Secretary, he oversaw the bureau's responsible for U.S. policy in each region of the world and served in the senior career Foreign Service position at the Department.  He retired on April 30, 2008.  He was a Visiting Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C. in summer 2008.  In July 2009, Burns joined The Cohen Group, a consulting firm in Washington D.C, as a Senior Counselor. Andrés Oppenheimer (born in 1951 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is the editor and syndicated foreign affairs columnist with "The Miami Herald," anchor of "Oppenheimer Presenta" on CNN En Español, and author of seven books, several of which have been published in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese"."  His column, "The Oppenheimer Report," appears twice a week in "The Miami Herald" and more than 60 U.S. and international newspapers, including the Miami Herald, El Mundo of Spain, "La Nación" of Argentina, Reforma of Mexico, El Mercurio of Chile and El Comercio of Peru.  He is the author of “Saving the Americas” (Random House, 2007) and six other best-selling books, and is a regular political analyst with CNN en Español.  His previous jobs at The Miami Herald included Mexico City bureau chief, foreign correspondent, and business writer.  He previously worked for five years with The Associated Press in New York, and has contributed on a free-lance basis to "The New York Times", "The Washington Post", "The New Republic", the BBC, CBS’ “60 Minutes”, and El Pais of Spain. DDD is a social enterprise that delivers digital content, data and research services to clients worldwide.  Customers receive high-quality competitively priced digital content services.  At the same time, DDD’s innovative social model enables talented youth from low-income families to access professional opportunities and earn lasting higher income.  This model, established by DDD in 2001, is now called "impact sourcing” and has been implemented by dozens of firms around the world.  Featured in Thomas L. Friedman's "The World is Flat" as an example of socially responsible outsourcing, DDD's clients include Reader's Digest, Harvard Business School, New York Daily News, Ancestry.com, and Stanford University. Maher El-Adawy (Arabic: ماهر العدوي‎ ‎ ) (born April 16, 1964) is a distinguished Egyptian career diplomat, he joined the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1985.  He represents the third generation of the El-Adawy family at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  He served as the Deputy Assistant Foreign Minister of Egypt, until his appointment by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Malawi.  His published op-ed in the USA Today, titled "Downfall of the Muslim Brotherhood" drew much attention in Washington, and established him as a rising star in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  He has served in many Egyptian Missions around the world, with long-term diplomatic posts in Germany, Uruguay, Ghana, Sweden, Yemen, and Ethiopia, and short-term assignments at the German Institute for International Development, the Egyptian Mission to the United Nations in New York, and the National Defense University in Washington.  After a short stint as the Egyptian Ambassador in Liberia, he was praised by nobel laureate Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as having taken the bilateral relations between the two countries to a new level. Ian Bremmer (born November 12, 1969) is an American political scientist specializing in U.S. foreign policy, states in transition, and global political risk.  He is the president and founder of Eurasia Group, a political risk research and consulting firm with offices in New York City, Washington, London, Tokyo, São Paulo, San Francisco, and Singapore.  As of December 2014, he is foreign affairs columnist and editor-at-large at "Time".  In 2013, he was named Global Research Professor at New York University.  Eurasia Group provides analysis and expertise about how political developments and national security dynamics move markets and shape investment environments across the globe. Searching for the Roots of 9/11 is a documentary which aired on the Discovery Channel in 2003.  It is hosted by "New York Times" foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman. Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—And How It Can Renew America is a book by "New York Times" Foreign Affairs columnist Thomas Friedman, proposing that the solutions to global warming and the best method to regain the United States' economic and political stature in the world are to embrace the clean energy and green technology industries.  The title derives from the convergence of Hot (global warming), Flat (globalization, as discussed in Friedman's book "The World Is Flat") and Crowded (population growth). The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century is an international best-selling book by Thomas L. Friedman that analyzes globalization, primarily in the early 21st century.  The title is a metaphor for viewing the world as a level playing field in terms of commerce, wherein all competitors have an equal opportunity.  As the first edition cover illustration indicates, the title also alludes to the perceptual shift required for countries, companies, and individuals to remain competitive in a global market in which historical and geographic divisions are becoming increasingly irrelevant. Robert David Kaplan (born June 23, 1952 in New York City) is an American author.  His books are on politics, primarily foreign affairs, and travel.  His work over three decades has appeared in "The Atlantic", "The Washington Post", "The New York Times", "The New Republic", "The National Interest", "Foreign Affairs" and "The Wall Street Journal", among other newspapers and publications.
Answer: Thomas L. Friedman