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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

Kristof: We can act before the next mass shooting

After the horrific shooting in Las Vegas, the impulse of politicians is to lower flags, offer moments of silence and lead somber tributes. But what we need most of all isn’t mourning but act...

DATE: Oct 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: ‘Enough Already,’ Said God

The famous televangelist Jim Bakker, who is preaching again on television after a rape accusation and a prison term for financial fraud, recently warned that Christians would start an armed ...

DATE: Sep 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: Crackdown on Rohingya in Myanmar an outrage

A beloved Nobel Peace Prize winner is presiding over an ethnic cleansing in which villages are burned, women raped and children butchered. For the last three weeks, Buddhist-major...

DATE: Sep 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: When we’re complicit in war crimes

It’s the type of photo that Saudi Arabian and U.S. officials don’t want you to see. It’s of a young Yemeni boy, acutely malnourished like 2 million other children in Yemen – caugh...

DATE: Sep 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: We are journalists, not the enemy

Sigh. If only President Donald Trump denounced neo-Nazis as passionately and sincerely as he castigates journalists. What could be an easier task than distancing oneself from Nazi...

DATE: Aug 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

We’ve run away from home to find ourselves again

ON THE PACIFIC CREST TRAIL, NORTHWEST OF TRUCKEE, Calif. – This will make me sound grouchy and misanthropic, but I sometimes wonder if what makes America great isn’t so much its people as it...

DATE: Aug 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: Motherhood is deadlier in America

HOUSTON — We love mothers, or at least we say we do, and we claim that motherhood is as American as apple pie. We’re lying. In fact, we’ve structured health care so that motherhoo...

DATE: Aug 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: A solution when a nation’s schools fail

BUCHANAN, Liberia – Imagine an elementary school where students show up, but teachers don’t. Where 100 students squeeze into a classroom but don’t get any books. Where teachers are sometimes...

DATE: Jul 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: Liu Xiaobo has suffered so others may be free

Dear Liu Xiaobo, You may be the man I most admire. For decades you’ve struggled and suffered to advance human liberty, at the cost of your own – and now, it seems, at the cost of ...

DATE: Jul 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: Good news, despite what you’ve heard

GANTA, Liberia – Cheer up: Despite the gloom, the world truly is becoming a better place. Indeed, 2017 is likely to be the best year in the history of humanity. To explain why, le...

DATE: Jul 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof