12 results for "Nicholas Kristof"
Nicholas D. Kristof: Chess, champs, education and charity
Friday, February 1, 2013 at 12:00 AMYou see America and its education system in all their glorious, exhilarating, crushing, infuriating contradictions in our national high school chess champion team.
Nicholas D. Kristof: Learning lessons from guns, a goose and two neighbors
Friday, January 18, 2013 at 12:00 AMWhen I travel abroad and talk to foreigners about the U.S. passion for guns, people sometimes express a conclusion that horrifies me: In America, life is cheap. President Barack Obama announced a terrific series of gun-control measures to sho...
Nicholas Kristof: Chinese officials aren't laughing at dissident's humor
Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at 12:00 AMBEIJING – China's leaders have tried honoring Ai Weiwei and bribing him with the offer of high positions. They have tried jailing him, fining him and clubbing him so brutally that he needed emergency brain surgery. In desperation, they ...
Nicholas D. Kristof: How philanthropic giving became cool, changed the world
Friday, December 28, 2012 at 12:00 AMIt was 15 years ago that Ted Turner needed something interesting to say in a speech – and decided, in a rush, to give away $1 billion. "I was on my way to New York to make the speech," Turner recalled to me. "I just though...
Nicholas D. Kristof: As civil war drags out, Syria's men are disappearing
Friday, November 16, 2012 at 12:00 AMBAB AL-SALAM, Syria – It was cold and drizzling as yet another family made homeless by war arrived in this town in northern Syria to start a new life in a tent.
Nicholas D. Kristof: Will climate change get some respect after superstorm Sandy?
Friday, November 2, 2012 at 12:00 AMPresident Barack Obama and Mitt Romney seemed determined not to discuss climate change in this campaign. So thanks to Hurricane Sandy for forcing the issue: Isn't it time to talk not only about weather, but also about climate? It's tr...
Nicholas D. Kristof: We all helped build the successful businesses in U.S.
Thursday, August 30, 2012 at 12:00 AMThe Republican National Convention opened by smacking President Barack Obama with the theme "We Built it."
Nicholas D. Kristof: Lost, unconnected and loving it
Friday, August 3, 2012 at 12:00 AMActually, that dateline isn't quite right. It shouldn't be "on" the Pacific Crest Trail, because my daughter and I drifted off the trail. We ended up completely lost in a wilderness of snow, mountains and forests.
Nicholas D. Kristof: Obama's foreign aid program for farmers could be transformative
Friday, July 13, 2012 at 12:00 AMThe farm fields here are cemeteries of cornstalks: A severe drought has left them brown, withered and dead. Normally, a failed crop like that signifies starvation.
Nicholas D. Kristof: Road trip across Iran reveals warmfeelings for Americans
Friday, June 15, 2012 at 12:00 AMMy 1,700-mile road trip across Iran began with a giddy paean to America, reinforcing my view that at the grass-roots level, this may be the most pro-American nation in the Middle East.
