Nicholas D. Kristof
Nicholas D. Kristof
Nicholas Donabet Kristofis an American journalist, author, op-ed columnist, and a winner of two Pulitzer Prizes. He has written an op-ed column for The New York Times since November 2001, and The Washington Post says that he "rewrote opinion journalism" with his emphasis on human rights abuses and social injustices, such as human trafficking and the Darfur conflict. Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa has described Kristof as an "honorary African" for shining a spotlight on neglected conflicts...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth27 April 1959
CountryUnited States of America
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Sandy was particularly destructive because it was prevented from moving back out to sea by a "blocking pattern" associated with the jet stream. There's debate about this, but one recent study suggested that melting sea ice in the Arctic may lead to such blocking.
Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.
Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa is neither... Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause.
The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.
The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.
It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.
It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.
More Americans die in gun homicides and suicides in six months than have died in the last 25 years in every terrorist attack and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.
...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.
Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little.
Random violence is incredibly infectious
It's easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president
Compassion isn't a sign of weakness, but a mark of civilization.
The degree to which these people were willing to share the little they had, did make me feel rather guilty about not doing more for them.