How to handle the ‘Genocide Olympics’ in Beijing | Nicholas D. Kristof / Syndicated columnist
The blunt truth is that a much-watched Olympics give the world leverage to highlight human rights abuses and raise the cost of repression. We should...
How do we stop the parade of gun deaths? | Nicholas D. Kristof / Syndicated columnist
More Americans have died from guns just since 1975, including suicides, murders and accidents (more than 1.5 million), than in all the wars in U.S....
Lessons for U.S. from Bangladesh | Nicholas D. Kristof / Syndicated columnist
Bangladesh invested in its most underutilized assets — its poor, with a focus on the most marginalized and least productive, because that’s where the highest...
Make public restrooms an infrastructure priority | Nicholas D. Kristof / Syndicated columnist
Even poorer countries like China and India manage networks of public latrines. But the United States is simply not made for people who pee.
School closures have failed America’s children | Nicholas D. Kristof / Syndicated columnist
As a nation, we fought to keep restaurants and malls open — but we didn’t make schools a similar priority, so needy children were left...
Can we put Fox News on trial with Trump? | Nicholas D. Kristof / Syndicated columnist
Fox helped sell Trump’s lie about a stolen election, propelling true believers like Ashli Babbitt — a fan of Fox personalities like Tucker Carlson —...
We can’t afford to not fight child poverty | Opinion
A couple of decades from now, America will be pretty much the same whether direct payments end up being $1,000 or $1,400. But this will...
A letter to my conservative friends | Nicholas D. Kristof / Syndicated columnist
Half a century ago we didn’t need the racist George Wallace wing of the Democratic Party, and today we don’t need the wing of the...
Lessons from the war on terror for the homegrown battle | Nicholas D. Kristof / Syndicated columnist
t’s natural to downplay the familiar. I remember the denialism of leaders in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan who minimized their domestic extremism. But threats from...