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Nicholas Kristof

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Opinion
6 Aug 2024
Melinda Gates has always had an independent streak. When she was still Melinda French and a young employee working at Microsoft in 1987, Bill Gates flirted with her in the parking lot and asked if she would go out with him in two weeks. She turned him down.
Opinion
6 Aug 2024
President Donald Trump claimed last June to have ended the practice of separating immigrant families at the southern border. “We are going to keep the families together,” he declared from the Oval Office.
Opinion
6 Aug 2024
Jared Kushner slipped quietly into Saudi Arabia last week for a meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, so the question I’m trying to get the White House to answer is this: Did they discuss American help for a Saudi nuclear program?
Opinion
6 Aug 2024
As President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un hold a summit meeting this upcoming week in Vietnam, they have something in common: Each apparently looks in the mirror and sees a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Opinion
6 Aug 2024
We’re seeing a backlash from the #MeToo movement, with many male bosses saying in surveys that they are less willing now to mentor junior female colleagues, go to dinner with them, travel with them — generally treat them as co-workers rather than as land mines.
Opinion
5 Aug 2024
I’d like to apologize to all the “banana republics” I’ve offended over the decades with snarky references to their dysfunction. This is karma: I now live in a nation where a petulant president has shut down much of the most powerful government in the world — so the White House isn’t even paying its water bills.
Opinion
5 Aug 2024
The world is, as everyone knows, going to hell, but there’s still the nervous thrill of waiting to see precisely which dark force will take us down. Will the economy collapse first, the ice sheets melt first, or chaos and war envelop us first?
Opinion
1 Aug 2024
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Opinion
1 Aug 2024
Good thing my mother is a loyal Times subscriber. She was just about the only reader of some of my columns this year!
Opinion
25 Jun 2024
ADEN, Yemen — I’m giving up most of my column space today to introduce you to Abrar Ibrahim, a 12-year-old girl in Yemen who weighs just 28 pounds. Nothing I write can be as searing or persuasive or true as Abrar is in this photo.
This Is What Our Yemen Policy Looks Like
Opinion
26 May 2024
Tuesday is 35 years since I walked into The New York Times for my first day of work. It was my first real job, initially covering international business and economics, and to mark the anniversary I’ve gone back and dug up some of the pieces over the decades that were particularly meaningful to me.
In a Career of Reporting, These Are Stories That Still Touch Me
Opinion
27 Mar 2024
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — It’s awkward to find yourself in a police state interviewing people about their leader’s penchant for starving children, torturing women or dismembering critics.
Opinion
20 Jul 2019
After instructing four women of color in the House of Representatives to “go back” where they came from, President Donald Trump now claims, “I don’t have a Racist bone in my body!”
Racist to the bone Consider the mandible