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.
The photos were taken by African Union soldiers. People in Congress saw them. I thought if people could see them, there would be public outcry. No one would be able to say, We just didn't know what was going on there.
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.
There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women.
I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight
American airstrikes...create risks, especially if our intelligence there is rusty. The crucial step, and the one we should apply diplomatic pressure to try to achieve, is for Maliki to step back and share power with Sunnis while accepting decentralization of government. If Maliki does all that, it may still be possible to save Iraq. Without that, airstrikes would be a further waste in a land in which we've already squandered far, far too much.
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.
One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.
The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.
The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.
The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.
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.