Nicholas D. Kristof
The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per monthCollection: Months
One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shotCollection: Men
It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.Collection: Movement
Solar power is one of the most hopeful technologies but still produces about 0.01 percent of U.S. electricity. The U.S. allocates just $159 million for solar research per year - about what we spend in Iraq every nine hours.Collection: Technology
Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little.Collection: Law
Compassion isn't a sign of weakness, but a mark of civilization.Collection: Compassion
We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to DarfurCollection: Tunes
Americans have called on moderates in Muslim countries to speak out against extremists, to stand up for the tolerance they say they believe in. We should all have the guts do the same at home.Collection: Country
Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save livesCollection: Literature
Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric civil war being waged here is the most lethal conflict since World War II and has claimed at least 30 times as many lives as the Haiti earthquake.Collection: War
There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.Collection: Anger
We tie ourselves in knots when we act as if democracy is good for the United States and Israel but not for the Arab world. For far too long, we've treated the Arab world as just an oil field.Collection: Spring
Palestinian militancy has accomplished nothing but increasing the misery of the Palestinian people. If Palestinians instead turned more to huge Gandhi-style nonviolence resistance campaigns, the resulting videos would reverberate around the world and Palestine would achieve statehood and freedom.Collection: People
Guilt-tripping people does not work; they tend to be turned off.Collection: People
I think when hundreds of thousands of lives are on the line, you might have to set aside some principles.Collection: Thinking
The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible.Collection: Media
Write letters to your editors, write to your members of Congress, and write to your news stations.Collection: Writing
You could perhaps better tell the story of a place by writing of a tiny village as a sort of prism into the bigger issues the culture was facing. It struck me as a better way to learn about a place, or at least a different way, than just going to interview the president. So I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there. But I'm just amazed.Collection: Writing
I think it's dangerous to be optimistic.Collection: Optimistic
Usually people are very much focused on keeping their kids alive.Collection: Kids
One of the principles of journalism is you don't lie. You never lie.Collection: Lying
It's important not to demonize [Donald's] Trump voters.Collection: Important
In much of the world, the most dangerous thing a woman can do is become pregnant.Collection: World
China was probably the worst place in the world to grow up female 100 years ago. There was foot binding, female infanticide, concubinage, and child marriage, and now it's one of the better places. So I really do feel that we're on the right side of history here.Collection: Growing Up
If one is talking to a finance minister of a poor country, moral arguments tend not to get very far. But if you can argue that their country is going to grow 2 percent faster per year if they can just harness the power of the female half of the population more effectively, that is an argument they consider.Collection: Country