Nick Kristof

Kristof: The False Debate About Attacking Iran

nytimes.com | Posted 03.25.2012

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I wonder if we in the news media aren't inadvertently leaving the impression that there is a genuine debate among experts about whether an Israeli mil...

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Why Your Passion Is Not Enough

Marianne Elliott | Posted 04.09.2012

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Marianne Elliott

passion, perseverance and innovation are sometimes highlighted at the expense of professionalism. When Nick Kristof, for example, told Maggie Doyne's story, he highlighted her youth and her passion.

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The Value Behind "Value-Added"

John Merrow | Posted 03.20.2012

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John Merrow

Because evaluating teachers using student achievement scores is here to stay, it's in teachers' interests to argue for better measures of achievement. We need better ways of assessing the value that teachers add to the lives of the children they teach, beyond test scores.

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Nick Kristof Detained In Bahrain

Posted 02.08.2012

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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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Being There: Kristof's Game Changing View from Egypt's Streets

Bill Lichtenstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bill Lichtenstein

Proof there's hope. Nick Kristof walked the streets of Cairo for days, and writes of the needed paradigm shift in the attitudes of Americans regarding the Middle East.

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Liberals, Conservatives, Spanking and the NY Times

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 11.17.2011

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Maia Szalavitz

Nicholas Kristof had an interesting column about liberals, conservatives, and brain wiring. Unfortunately, he misunderstands the idea of "hard wiring," taking this to mean that liberals and conservatives are "born that way."

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Fearless Predictions for 2010 and Other Magical Thinking

Gerald Sindell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gerald Sindell

Tom Friedman will realize that he's losing his success rate to the average stopped clock and retire to focus on writing non-political travel books. They will be very short. But somehow still turgid.

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Nicholas Kristof Talks About Sex Trafficking, Rape and Raising Kids

Mona Gable | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mona Gable

"People always ask, how do you do all this and stay married?" he said to the audience. Let's just say the books are easier to put to bed than the kids. "Books don't play you against each other."

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Nick Kristof, George Clooney Share A Guest House In Chad

New York Times | NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF | Posted 05.25.2011

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So I'm bunking with George Clooney in a little room in a guest house here in eastern Chad, near Darfur in Sudan. We each have a mattress on the floor,...

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Nick Kristof: Don't Confuse Me With Bill Kristol

New York Times | Nicholas Kristof | Posted 05.25.2011

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From the Salt Lake Tribune this evening: Kristof: Think twice about moving to small-government conservatism Nicholas D. Kristof Sound famili...

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