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NEWS ABOUT: Nicholas Kristof

Nicholas Kristof stories: 17 news summaries
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

More Troops in Afghanistan
= Angrier Insurgents

Doesn't US remember how our country began? Or how Vietnam ended?

Oct 22, 09 9:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - The United States was born from a nationalist insurgency. “Given that history, you’d think we might be more sensitive to nationalism abroad,” writes Nicholas Kristof. “Yet the most systematic foreign-policy mistake we Americans have made in the post-World War II period has been to underestimate its... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Pakistan • troop surge • US military • Pashtun • nationalism • insurgency • Nicholas Kristof

Opinion

If Congress Can't Pass Health Reform, Yank Their Coverage

Pols should be punished for 'longstanding and grievous breach of responsibility: Kristof

Oct 8, 09 7:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nicholas Kristof has a modest proposal for lawmakers who vote down health care reform. If universal coverage is defeated, he writes, let’s take away the insurance of 15% of Congress, at random, and cut benefits to an inadequate level for another 8%. “I wouldn’t wish the trauma... More »

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Congress • government spending • health care reform • uninsured • Nicholas Kristof

Want to Save Dad? Insurance Won't Let You

And Congress fatcats need to overhaul this 'disgrace' now: Kristof

Oct 4, 09 11:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - So dear old dad desperately needs a kidney, and the docs say you're the best fit. Tough luck, writes Nicholas Kristof in a look at the case of David Waddington, whose two sons can't donate—because pre-donation screening might reveal to insurance companies that they have the same genetic condition... More »

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health insurance • genetic testing • health care reform • kidney disease • Nicholas Kristof • pre-existing condition

OPINION

Current Care Kills More Than 'Army of Death Panels'

System 'takes lives and breaks apart families'

Aug 30, 09 8:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Despite screeches that a government-run health care program will bump people into an early grave, "it’s a good bet that our existing dysfunctional health system knocks off far more people than an army of ‘death panels’ could, even if they did exist," writes Nicholas Kristof in... More »

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health care costs • divorce • health insurance • bankruptcy • health care reform • Obama administration • Nicholas Kristof • President Obama

OPINION

 Modern Farming Has 
 Lost Its Soul 

Family farms have a magic all their own—and can compete

Aug 23, 09 10:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - We know today’s food industry cranks out “unhealthy food, mishandles waste, and overuses antibiotics,” writes Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times, but the heart of the matter is that today’s industrial farms have “no soul.” In a visit back to his old stomping... More »

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agriculture • farming • farm • food industry • Nicholas Kristof • factory farm

OPINION

 Time to Get Tough 
 With N. Korea 


Aug 6, 09 6:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Getting Laura Ling and Euna Lee out of North Korea was a cakewalk compared to the real diplomatic struggles between the Obama administration and the rogue nation, writes Nicolas Kristof. The New York Times columnist, who has visited North Korea five times, used to favor engagement with Kim Jong-Il's regime.... More »

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North Korea • diplomacy • nuclear weapons • Burma • Kim Jong Il • Nicholas Kristof • nuclear transfer • Euna Lee • Laura Ling

OPINION

On Health Reform, Obama Should Heed His Doc, Not AMA

Medical association is wrong yet again: Kristof

Jun 25, 09 8:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Its membership may abide by the Hippocratic Oath, but the American Medical Association is definitely doing the public harm in its opposition to meaningful health care reform, writes Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times. The AMA has become infamous for its lousy political stands: it supported segregation, backed... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • doctor • American Medical Association • health care reform • Nicholas Kristof • public option

(Newser) - Twenty years ago today, Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times was in Tiananmen Square, sweating in fear and watching as "'People’s China' opened fire on its people." The soldiers had shot at ambulances, too, so no one was helping the wounded—except the rickshaw drivers.... More »

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China • democracy • Tiananmen Square • political protest • Nicholas Kristof

(Newser) - Electing a black man president wasn’t the only historic thing voters did last November, writes Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times. California voted, by nearly a 2-1 margin, for an animal-rights initiative that bars farms from keeping calves, pregnant hogs, or hens in cages too small for... More »

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ethics • California • animal rights • Humane Society • chickens • Nicholas Kristof

(Newser) - George Clooney figures prominently in New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas D. Kristof's latest report from Africa, which Kristof describes as "yet another hand-wringing column about Darfur." He offers to swap dirt on the Hollywood heartthrob for readers' interest—then offers a chilling tale of a "petty... More »

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United Nations • Darfur • Chad • genocide • Sudan • George Clooney • Nicholas Kristof

OPINION

 Tax Soda: It's the New Tobacco 

Less obese, less diabetic America just a couple of laws away

Dec 18, 08 10:27 AM CST
(Newser) - The cigarette tax "was the biggest health care breakthrough in the last 40 years in the United States," and its successor may be the 18% tax on non-diet soda New York Gov. David Patterson is pitching, writes Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times. Not only... More »

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obesity • taxes • tobacco • soda • cigarette tax • David Paterson • Nicholas Kristof • soda tax

High Court Won't Hear Hatfill Suit

NY Times off the hook for columns on 2001 anthrax attacks

Dec 15, 08 2:52 PM CST
(Newser) - The US Supreme Court will not hear an appeal of Steven Hatfill’s defamation suit against the New York Times, Bloomberg reports. Hatfill, who was once suspected of masterminding the 2001 anthrax attacks, has long maintained that the paper's coverage—specifically, columns by Nicholas Kristof—damaged his reputation. But... More »

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New York Times • appeal • lawsuit • defamation • anthrax • US Supreme Court • Steven Hatfill • Nicholas Kristof

 Not Scared of TB? 
 You Should Be 

Resistant strain could ravage the world, and we're not ready

Dec 7, 08 1:32 PM CST
(Newser) - "Global complacency" could give rise to a terrifying, drug-resistant form of tuberculosis, writes Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times—and not in some remote outpost on the globe. There have been fewer than 100 cases of this XDR-TB in the past 15 years in the US, but with... More »

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public health • Doctors Without Borders • Armenia • tuberculosis • pandemic • Nicholas Kristof • XDR-TB

OPINION

Georgia Needs Our Help—Not a Seat at NATO

Investment, not guns, is the way to face down Russia: Kristof

Nov 20, 08 7:14 AM CST
(Newser) - Nicholas Kristof travels to Tbilisi, where ambitious, America-loving Georgians live in fear of a resurgent Russia. The United States needs to support this capitalist enclave in the Caucasus, writes the New York Times columnist—but not by letting it join NATO. The reason? President Mikheil Saakashvili may be brilliant and... More »

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Russia • NATO • diplomacy • Georgia • Tbilisi • Mikheil Saakashvili • South Ossetia • Nicholas Kristof

OPINION

 A Black President 
 Will Boost Brand USA 

Electing Obama will replace America's battered image with one of equality

Oct 23, 08 9:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Skin color is no reason to vote for anybody, Nick Kristof writes in the New York Times, but there's no denying that electing a black president would give America's image abroad a much-needed boost—"redefining the American 'brand' to be less about Guantánamo and more about equality."... More »

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Barack Obama • African Americans • equality • Obama 2008 • US image • Election 2008 • Nicholas Kristof

OPINION

'Unconscious' Racism Holds Obama Back

Many 'deflect' biases
to more PC concerns like inexperience

Oct 5, 08 10:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s race could be holding him back in polls by some 6 points, a poll suggests, but it’s not necessarily because of racists, Nicholas Kristof writes in the New York Times. More likely, it’s an unconscious matter of “aversive racism”—decisions made based on... More »

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Barack Obama • race relations • Election 2008 • the race card • Nicholas Kristof

OPINION

Pass the Bailout, Or Else We'll
Become Japan

Its decade of decline shows the risks of inaction: Kristof

Oct 2, 08 8:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Watching the House vote down the bailout package this week, Nicholas Kristof recalled a bad memory: Japanese politicians doing the same thing during the financial crisis of the 1990s. The New York Times columnist, who was then based in Tokyo, watched as a desire to punish "corrupt, profligate, and... More »

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Japan • recession • Nikkei • Japanese economy • House Republicans • bailout • financial crisis • Nicholas Kristof

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