Nicholas Kristof - The Durango Herald

Kristof: Woody Allen meets #MeToo

Four years ago, when Woody Allen was given a lifetime achievement award by the Golden Globes, Dylan Farrow curled up in a ball on her bed, crying hysterically. Then she wrote an open letter ...

DATE: Feb 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: Trump leads the world, backward

DAVOS, Switzerland — President Donald Trump didn’t say how delighted he was to be in Sweden, he didn’t call any countries s-holes, he didn’t threaten to “totally destroy” another nation, and...

DATE: Jan 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: Come to this island, before it disappears

But come quickly, while it’s still here. “My house was over there,” said Zainal Abedin, a farmer, pointing to the waves about 100 feet from the shore. “At low tide, we can still s...

DATE: Jan 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: Trump’s threat to Democracy

Two political scientists specializing in how democracies decay and die have compiled four warning signs to determine if a political leader is a dangerous authoritarian: 1. The lea...

DATE: Jan 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: Did genocide destroy this Rohingya village?

SOUTHEAST BANGLADESH, NEAR THE MYANMAR BORDER — “Ethnic cleansing” and even “genocide” are antiseptic and abstract terms. What they mean in the flesh is a soldier grabbing a crying baby girl...

DATE: Dec 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: For the holidays, pull a tooth or save a life

Happy holidays! In the spirit of the season, here’s a suggestion: Instead of inflicting a garish tie on your brother or a carcinogenic face cream on your aunt, how about saving a life? ...

DATE: Dec 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: Blue states do what red states preach

As we watch Roy Moore thumping his Bible to defend himself from accusations of child molestation, let me toss out a verbal hand grenade: To some degree, liberals practice the values that con...

DATE: Nov 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Special counsel Robert Mueller is in the cross hairs

We may shortly be facing a national crisis. President Donald Trump’s base is egging him on to undertake his own “Saturday Night Massacre” and fire Robert Mueller for committing ....

DATE: Nov 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: Trump’s legacy - damaged brains

There is an image that shows what a common pesticide does to a child’s brain. The pesticide, which belongs to a class of chemicals developed as a nerve gas made by Nazi Germany, i...

DATE: Oct 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: Trump is inspirational ... for poetry

My readers have the best words, as Donald Trump might say. Evidence for that comes from the caliber of the 2,750 poems submitted to my Trump poetry contest. With the help of the Poetry Socie...

DATE: Oct 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: Trump’s approach escalates North Korea tensions

On just the first day of a war between the United States and North Korea, according to a Stanford University assessment, 1 million people could be killed. Yet after my five-day vi...

DATE: Oct 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: Inside North Korea, and feeling the drums of war

PYONGYANG, North Korea — To fly into North Korea on an old Russian aircraft is to step into an alternate universe, one in which “the Supreme Leader” defeats craven U.S. imperialists, in whic...

DATE: Oct 7, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof