Nicholas Kristof

Fear Is an Ally: The Story of Kennedy Odede of Kibera, Kenya

Ellen Galinsky | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Nicholas Kristof, Lara Galinsky, Jessica Posner, Echoing Green, Kibera, Kennedy Odede, Shining Hope for Communities, Impact News

On May 27, a 27-year-old graduating senior at Wesleyan University from Kenya stepped onto the podium and delivered the commencement address. Kennedy O...

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Nicholas Kristof's 'Half The Sky' Movement Takes On Maternal Mortality

Emily Heinz | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Sheryl WuDunn, Video, Fistula, Half the Sky, Half the Sky Movement, Edna Adan, Women's Health, Africa, Nicholas Kristof, Somalia, Global Motherhood, Maternal Mortality, Impact News

Every 90 seconds, a woman dies giving birth. That's the starting point of Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's newest series of films, Half the Sk...

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WATCH: Nicholas Kristof Releases Trailer For Film Series On Plight Of Women Worldwide

Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Women's Empowerment, Sheryl WuDunn, Social Media, Women's Rights, Half the Sky Movement, Half the Sky, Twitter, Susan Sarandon, Nicholas Kristof, Maternal Health, Facebook, Video, Impact News

When Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn published "Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide" in 2009, they brought unprec...

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A Real Conversation For The Rest Of Us Catholics

Michael Pettinger, Ph.D. | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Andrea Ryan, Catholic Church, Nicholas Kristof, Laurie Brink, Gay Catholics, LGBT Catholics, Religion and Sexuality, Religion News

If we want to practice "reconciliation for the sake of mission," we first have to acknowledge the people with whom we need to be reconciled.

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Alicia Keys, Pearl Jam, REM And More Speak Out Against Backpage Sex Ads

Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Video, Backpage Sex Trafficking, Talib Kweli, Village Voice Media, The Roots, Alicia Keys, Nicholas Kristof, Sex Trafficking, Rem, Village Voice, Backpage.com, New York News

The backlash against Village Voice Media's ownership of Backpage.com continues with a group of high-profile musicians speaking out against the controv...

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Why The Village Voice Must Shut Down Backpage.com's Adult Section

Rev. Dr. Katharine Rhodes Henderson | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Village Voice Media, Nicholas Kristof, Backpage.com, Sex Trafficking, Groundswell, Gender and Religion, Village Voice, Human Trafficking, Religion News

Called upon to act by a multifaith clergy coalition of hundreds of rabbis, ministers, imams, priests, and other religious and moral leaders, Village Voice has claimed that this issue is "complicated."

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Nicholas Kristof Vs. The Village Voice On Backpage Sex-Trafficking

Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Village Voice Media, Sex Trafficking, Nicholas Kristof, Backpage.com, Village Voice, New York News

New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof reignited his war against Village Voice Media with a new editorial, "Where Pimps Peddle Their Goods," ...

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Pimps Using The Internet To Peddle Their Goods

www.nytimes.com | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Village Voice Media, Prostitution, Nicholas Kristof, New York City, Technology News

I WENT on a walk in Manhattan the other day with a young woman who once had to work these streets, hired out by eight pimps while she was just 16 and ...

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Nicholas Kristof: Kony Should Be Vilified, Not Invisible Children

The New York Times | Posted 03.15.2012

Read More: Lord's Resistance Army, Viral Videos, Child Soldiers, New York Times, Kony 2012, Nicholas Kristof, Invisible Children, Uganda, Joseph Kony, Congo, Impact News

I’d like to thank the makers of the “Kony 2012” video for goading me to write about Joseph Kony. With about 100 million views, it is now one of ...

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Council Members, Change.org Fight To Stop Trafficking On Village Voice Site

Posted 03.04.2012

Read More: Video, Trafficking, Brad Lander, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Lauren Hersh, Craigslist, Village Voice Media, Nicholas Kristof, Sex Trafficking, Backpage.com, Slidepollajax, Human Trafficking, Impact News

Change.org is getting help from New York council members to pressure the Village Voice to shut down its adult section of classified ads. The social...

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Pundits Waiting for a Palestinian Gandhi? Meet Khader Adnan.

Peter Hart | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Khader Adnan, Palestine, Thomas Friedman, Joe Klein, Time, Civil Disobedience, New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, Gandhi, Non-Violence, Non-Violent Resistance, Media News

The pundits who tell us that they crave a dramatic nonviolent Palestinian narrative can write the story of Khader Adnan, who has drawn comparisons to celebrated Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands. But they are not writing his story.

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Congress Warned 'Toxic Stress' Dooms Homeless Children To Lifelong Poverty

Posted 02.17.2012

Read More: Congress, Homeless Families, Yolanda Aponte, Long Island Homeless, Ellen Bassuk, Barack Obama, 2013 Budget, Jack Schonkoff, Toxic Stress, Homeless Kids, Child Poverty, Video, Homelessness, Children and Poverty, Homeless, Ellen L. Bassuk, Nicholas Kristof, Politics News

After the Apontes lost their Long Island home and moved into a motel, Yolanda and her husband began worrying about their youngest son, who had turned ...

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Women Hold Up Half The Sky

Kate Grant | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Sheryl WuDunn, Fistula, Half the Sky Movement, Half the Sky, Edna Adan, Fistula Foundation, Molly Melching, Nicholas Kristof, Global Motherhood, Obstetric Fistula, Skirball Center, Maternal Mortality, Arts News

The exhibit challenges you to open your eyes, open your mind, open your heart, and most of all to act to improve the lot of the world's women. The enemy is not men. The enemy is indifference and its evil twin inaction.

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Good Games -- Is It possible?

Mateo Gutierrez | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Games, Games for Change, Nicholas Kristof, Zynga, Gaming, Cityville, Nicholas Kristof Games for Change, Farmville, Zynga Games, Facebook Zynga Games, Technology News

I don't think people who play Zynga games are bad. Just like I don't think the grandma in Vegas is bad. They're just sad.

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Nicholas Kristof Blasts Backpage For Aiding Child Prostitution

The Huffington Post | Simon McCormack | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Backpage Child Prostitution, Video, Backpage Sex Trafficking, Nickolas Kristof Backpage, Nicholas Kristof, Child Prostitution Backpage, Child Prostitution, Backpage Crime, Media News

New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof has penned a scathing piece about Backpage and the site's links to child prostitution. Kristof desc...

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Baad, Baad Teecherz

Dennis Danziger | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: LA Times, Public Schools, Columbia University, Harvard University, Private Schools, Nicholas Kristof, Teachers, NY Times, Waiting for Superman, The Value of Teachers, Education News

Sad that Nicholas Kristof is joining a pool of writers who are creating a new American stereotype: the bad teacher.

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Nicholas Kristof To Launch Humanitarian Facebook Game

Posted 01.13.2012

Read More: Pbs, Usaid, Sheryl WuDunn, Games for Change, Half the Sky, Farmville, Independent Television Service, United Nations Foundation, Social Gaming, Nicholas Kristof, Facebook, Video, Impact News

Though his writing has impacted people worldwide, prolific journalist Nicholas Kristof is set to parlay his dedication to humanitarian issues to an ev...

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Gifts That Give Back This Holiday Season

Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: Green Gifts, Charitable Gifts, Family Dinner Download, Against Malaria, Family Dinner Table Talk, Nicholas Kristof Gift Guide, Gift-Guides, Dinner Download, Nrdc Gift Guide, Nicholas Kristof, Gifts for Charity, Parents News

This week's Family Dinner Table Talk, from HuffPost and The Family Dinner book: As the year winds down and the presents pile up, it's easy to get c...

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Nick Kristof Detained In Bahrain

Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Newspapers, Nick Kristof Bahrain, Nick Kristof, Nick Kristof Tear Gassed, New York Times, Nick Kristof Detained, Nicholas Kristof, Nicholas Kristof Detained, Media News

New York Times columnist Nick Kristof was detained by police while covering a protest in Bahrain on Friday. Kristof and his videographer, Adam Ellick,...

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Nicholas Kristof On Why He Champions Women's Rights

Tabby Biddle | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Women's Empowerment, Women's Rights, Women, Nicholas Kristof, Half the Sky, Violence Against Women, Skirball Center, Sex Trafficking, Girls, Education, Advocacy, Impact News

Javaria lives near Lahore, Pakistan. Her mother, Saima Muhammad, was routinely beaten by her husband. Then Saima started a successful embroidery bus...

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The Road Less Traveled

Elizabeth Nicholas | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Microloans, Women, Developing World, Half the Sky, Microlending, Economic Development, Nicholas Kristof, Millennial Generation, Film, Impact News

Examples abound of women in the developing world receiving loans, building businesses, and employing others with their capital, along with investing in education and infrastructure for their families and communities.

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Dear New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof

David Harris | Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: New York Times, Benjamin Netanyahu, Nicholas Kristof, Israel, Middle East, World News, World News

You recently wrote a column in The New York Times entitled "Is Israel Its Own Worst Enemy?" Asserting that yours is "an act of friendship," you unle...

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The Big Banks Lose Control of the Optics

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: JP Morgan Chase, Ivan Boesky, Michael Milken, Kamala Harris, Obama Administration, Anthony Bologna, Occupy Wall Street, Jamie Dimon, Zuccotti Park, Senator Dick Durbin, RICO Act, Big Banks, Tom Miller, Bank of America, Wall Street, Joseph Stiglitz, Eric Schneiderman, Susan Sarandon, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Rico, New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, Michael Moore, Wall Street Protests, Gina Bellafante, Naomi Klein, Business News

If the feds under Reagan could prosecute a couple of corrupt high rollers on Wall Street, why can't they do it under Obama?

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Innovative University

Michael Roth | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Wesleyan University, Nicholas Kristof, Higher Education, Liberal Arts Education, Shining Hope for Communities, Innovative University, Richard Rorty, College News

The free inquiry and experimentation of our education helps us to think for ourselves, take responsibility for our beliefs and actions, and be better acquainted with our own desires, our own hopes.

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Rethinking U.S. Policy Toward Iran

Jayshree Bajoria | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Ahmadinejad Un Speech, Nuclear Proliferation, Iran Nuclear Weapons, United Nations, Nicholas Kristof, u.s. Hikers, World News

Ahmadinejad's diminishing political fortunes poses a dilemma for the U.S. on the seriousness of any deal the Iranian president proposes on the country's controversial nuclear program.

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