Nicholas D. Kristof
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| Personal Information: | I write op-ed columns that appear twice each week in The New York Times, on Sundays and Thursdays. I still count myself as an Oregonian, but I've been at the Times since 1984, much of that time as a foreign correspondent in Asia. I've had the column since 2001. |
| Personal Interests: | I enjoy running, ultra-light backpacking, and having my Chinese and Japanese corrected by my three children. When I grow up, I want to backpack from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail. |
My Sunday column is about "encore careers," or career switches in the second half of life meant to provide personal satisfaction and do some good. Bill Gates's move to his foundation is the best example of that, but by some estimates there are already 4 million to 6 million people in encore careers in the U.S. Share your thoughts, either here or on my blog: Have any of you taken the plunge? Or someone around you? Did it work as hoped? Any suggestions for other people thinking about making the move?
There are a few topics that have been particularly important to me in my column writing. One of them has been Darfur. Another has been the sexual enslavement and trafficking of young women. In 2004, I wrote a five-column series, most of it reported from Cambodia, about Srey Mom and Srey Neth, two 21st-century slaves, teenage prostitutes whose freedom from brothel owners came at a price of $353.
I'm also a big believer in the new age of multimedia journalism, so you're invited to peruse the full archive of my video coverage.
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June 19
Nicholas D. Kristof added new photos to Middle East.
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Middle East - 11 Photos
Read an interview with Nick accompanying a new PBS Wide Angle documentary, Heart of Darfur. The Wide Angle website also includes an episode from the film and a slew of other materials. (July 2008) Read (and watch) a profile of Nick in U.S. News & World Report. (Nov.
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Created June 19
Updated May 27
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The United States' 50 largest cities graduate only 50% of their high school students. Chicago public school teacher Will Okun discusses some of the consequences, as well as some promising solutions.
June 21
My Sunday column is about the West Bank occupation, told largely through Hebron. More broadly, I argue that when American politicians compete to be “pro-Israeli,” they too often line up behind the one that oppresses Palestinians on the West Bank and not enough behind the one of Israeli human rights groups, historians and journalists [...]
June 18
A column reported from Gaza, and a plea for comments that aim for edification, not invective.
One of the most shameful episodes of the post 9/11 era has been the way the U.S. Government — particularly the Pentagon under Don Rumsfeld — oversaw the torture and abuse of supposed terror suspects, even though there often was little or no serious evidence against them. We’ll remember Guantanamo the way we remember the [...]
Israelis sometimes complain, with some justification, of a double standard: When Israeli troops beat up Arabs, then the world cries foul, but when Arab troops kill Arabs, almost no one notices.
In Jerusalem I had a delightful meeting with Bassem Eid, founder and general director of a group called The Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group. [...]
Even if the Jewish settlement in Hebron, in the West Bank, were not illegal in the eyes of much of the world, the financial and diplomatic costs are mind-boggling.
If the U.S. and Israel had formed a Joint Commission to Support Hamas Extremists and Bolster Iranian Influence, they could hardly have done a better job.
The United Nations and its member states seem to finally be recognizing that systematic mass rape is at least as much an international outrage as, say, pirated DVDs.
Now, it’s up to Barack Obama to give a speech about gender that might trigger a useful national conversation about women in leadership.
We should encourage China to tolerate peaceful protesters even as it prosecutes terrorists. But instead of clarifying that distinction, we have helped China blur it.