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Nicholas Kristof: More Schools, Not Troops in Afghanistan

nytimes.com | NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

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Dispatching more troops to Afghanistan would be a monumental bet and probably a bad one, most likely a waste of lives and resources that might simply ...

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Mercy Corps, Nicholas Kristof Encourage Book Clubs To Fundraise And Get Active

Posted 10.29.2009 | Impact

Read More: Women's Rights, Half the Sky, Women's Issues, World Hunger, Women's Health, Books, Women and Politics, Nicholas Kristof, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Book Clubs, Mercy Corps, Impact News

Nicholas Kristof and his wife and co-author Sheryl WuDunn take on the cause of female inequality in their new book Half The Sky. They argue that signi...

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Half The Sky: Fighting Gender Violence

The New York Review of Books | Sue M. Halpern | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books

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Breaking a Conspiracy of Silence Sue Halpern The New York Review of Books Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by N...

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'Half The Sky' With Nicholas Kristof: A Morally Persuasive Call to Action

Dr. Alex Benzer | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Microlending, Economic Development, Sex Trafficking, Maternal Health, Somaly Mam, Happiness, Sheryl WuDunn, Microsavings, Education, Half the Sky, Oppression of Women, Grameen Bank, Slavery, Nicholas Kristof, Meaningful Work, Childbirth, Alex Benzer, Women's Rights, Living News
Dr. Alex Benzer

In their lucid and levelheaded way, Kristof and WuDunn build a powerful moral case for fostering economic progress in the developing world by unleashing the potential of women.

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The Missing Piece in a Woman's Nation

Linda Tarr-Whelan | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Women, Women's Leadership, Women in Business, Women's Issues, Workforce, Women and Workforce, Nicholas Kristof, Maria Shriver, Business News
Linda Tarr-Whelan

The tipping point is what I call the "30% Solution" -- the point at which women's voices resonate fully to add the affirmative difference of shared experiences and values.

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We Should Be Grateful That Obama Is "Dithering"

Mitchell Bard | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Max Boot, Council on Foreign Relations, 2006 Election, Afghanistan, Graveyard of Empires, Mission Accomplished, George W. Bush, Paul Eaton, New York Times, Internatinoal Arabian Horse Association, Nicholas Kristof, Hurricane Katrina, Iraq, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Dithering Afghanistan, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

We, as a country, would be a lot (and I mean a lot) better off right now if Cheney and his boss had done some dithering before invading Iraq.

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Kristof: More Troops Are A Bad Bet

Kristof | Nicholas | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Troops, Nicholas Kristof, Surge, Afghanistan, Politics News

The United States was born of our ancestors' nationalistic resentment of a foreign power whose troops we saw as occupiers, not protectors. The British...

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ADOLESCENT ACTIVISTS: 7 Young People Making A Difference

The Huffington Post | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 10.21.2009 | Impact

Read More: Ashley Shuyler, Greg Mortenson, Activism, Amira Mortenson, Three Cups of Tea, Slidepoll, Ana Dodson, Zach Bonner, Nicholas Kristof, Youth Activism, Impact News

As a new string of youth activists have shown, you're never too young or inexperienced to start making a difference in your community. HuffPost Impact...

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Nicholas Kristof Talks About Sex Trafficking, Rape and Raising Kids

Mona Gable | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media

Read More: New York Times, Sex Trafficking, Nicholas Kristof, Half the Sky, San Francisco, International Museum of Women, Nick Kristof, Media News
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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Water and Women: A Gender Crisis, a Global Opportunity

Jonathan Greenblatt | Posted 10.16.2009 | Impact

Read More: Bill Clinton, Sheryl WuDunn, Oprah Winfrey, Care, Ethiopia, Ajws, Water, Africa, Nicholas Kristof, Sanitation, Impact News
Jonathan Greenblatt

The world finally seems to be awakening to the inherent power that women possess - energy and talent that is needed to address the many challenges that face our planet.

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The Most Important Book of the Year

William Petrocelli | Posted 10.12.2009 | Books

Read More: Books, Women's Rights, Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky, Kristof and WuDunn, Kristof, Most Important Book, Nicholas Kristof, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Domestic Violence, Books News
William Petrocelli

Half the Sky makes the case that the plight of women is getting worse in much of the world and will continue on its downward slide unless we do something about it.

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Sakena Yacoobi's Vision for Afghanistan

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 10.11.2009 | Impact

Read More: Sheryl DuWunn, Afghanistan Infrastructure, Omega Women and Power Conference, Hijab, Women in Afghanistan, Sakena Yacoobi, Maternal Mortality Rate, Obama, Afghanistan, Nicholas Kristof, Creating Hope International, Koran, Education in Afghanistan, Impact News
Marcia G. Yerman

Sakena Yacoobi is on a mission to bring education to Afghanistan, a country that has a 70 percent illiteracy rate. Her organization, the Afghan Institute of Learning, seeks to empower women in a troubled society.

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Advice for the "Nothing I Do Really Helps!" Blues

Carine Fabius | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Philanthropy, At-Risk Youth, Nicholas Kristof, Haiti, Amazon, Healthcare, Mentoring, Living News
Carine Fabius

In the end, life is not made up of days and weeks and months and years but by each moment. And if only one moment can be made sweeter by just one of our acts, then we will have fulfilled our purpose.

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Are You Smarter than the World's Global Health Donors?

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 10.02.2009 | World

Read More: Bill and Melinda Gates, Global Health, Pneumonia, World Pneumonia Day, Nicholas Kristof, GAVI Alliance, Best Shot Foundation, Save the Children, Orin Levine, Pneumoadip, World News
Dr. Orin Levine

Pneumonia is so poorly recognized that New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof called it "The killer no one suspects" and UNICEF dubbed it "the forgotten killer of children."

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Getting Educated About Education

Jessica Alba | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sheryl WuDunn, Nicholas Kristof, Clinton Global Initiative, Education, Half the Sky, Cgi, 1goal, Politics News
Jessica Alba

In the US we take for granted that our children have a right to education. But for tens of millions of kids in the developing world, the chance for an education is a hope and a dream, but not yet a reality.

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Women's Empowerment...Not an Issue Here?

Susan Danish | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Women's Rights, Women, Nicholas Kristof, Half the Sky, Living News
Susan Danish

Is women's empowerment just something we lecture about, or is it the most critical cause of our time?

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HuffPost Review: Half the Sky

Bill Gates, Sr. | Posted 11.14.2009 | World

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Bill Gates, Sr.

What Nick Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn have done is lay out a case for why empowering women in the developing world is both morally right and strategically imperative.

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When You Educate A Girl, Everything Changes

Julia Moulden | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Women, Africa, Ann Cotton, World Bank, Caroline Daniel, Kofi Annan, New Radicals, School, Girls, Goldman Sachs, Education, 000 Women, Julia Moulden, Careers, Nicholas Kristof, 10, Camfed, Living News
Julia Moulden

"Your eyes, it's a day's work to look into them." American composer and performance artist Laurie Anderson wrote the line that came to me when I first...

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Women's Rights: All We Take for Granted

Maria Rodale | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Women and Politics, Women's Rights, Violence Against Women, Women's Issues, New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Living News
Maria Rodale

When Hollywood finally learns how to make good romance movies, we might just finally free women around the world, and create the kind of world where peace is a possibility.

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Don't Worry, Get Angry: Hillary's Health Care Travesty

Linda Keenan | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Baldie's Blog, Cancer, Medical Bankruptcy, Hillary St. Pierre, President Obama, Lymphoma, Obama's Mother, Politics News, Health Care Debate, Denial of Care, Cobra, Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, Insurance, New York Times, Universal Health Care, Health Care Reform, Nicholas Kristof, Crohn's Disease, Health Care Crisis, Politics News
Linda Keenan

Seventy-eight percent of the people who had to file for medical-related bankruptcy actually had health insurance. Hillary St. Pierre, a spunky 27-year-old mother, is a case in point.

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Women: Changing the Fate of Our Global Future

Tabby Biddle | Posted 10.02.2009 | Home

Read More: Women's Rights, The Women's Crusade, Bride Burning, Microfinancing for Women, Oprah, Pakistan, Women's Oppression, Women's Funding Network, Kiva, Kashf Foundation, Women Trafficking, Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky, Humam Rights for Women, Nicholas Kristof, Hillary Clinton, Tabby Biddle, Home News
Tabby Biddle

As more and more women and girls are given opportunity and respect, there is real possibility for bringing balance back to our world.

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America's Existing Health Care System Is Fit For Animals

New York Times | Nicholas Kristof | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Nicholas Kristof, Health Care, Lobbyists, Politics News

As a nation, we're at a turning point. Universal health coverage has been proposed for nearly a century in the United States. It was in an early draft...

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Women's Equality Day -- Thank you President Jimmy Carter

Ellen Snortland | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Helen-Lakelly-Hunt, Sheryl WuDunn, Gender Equality, Women's Suffrage, The Hunger Project, Jimmy Carter, Nicholas Kristof, Swanee Hunt, Voting, Living News
Ellen Snortland

We need a voting holiday to celebrate women getting the right to vote. Let's make the suffragists icons for peaceful non-violent social change.

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Members Only: Journalism Clubs

Rory O'Connor | Posted 09.26.2009 | Media

Read More: New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, Washington Post, Gail Collins, The Guardian, New York Times Oped Stars, Daily Telegraph, Death of Newspapers, Knowledge Network, Nieman Lab, Newspaper Industry, Media News
Rory O'Connor

Desperate to stay alive, beleaguered newspaper executives first tried to monetize their content. Now they're desperately trying to monetize their journalists.

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Nick Kristof: Our Food Has No Soul

nytimes.com | NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Food Recalls, Farming, Factory Farming, Agriculture, Food Politics, Food Safety, Nicholas Kristof, Family Farming, Green News

On a summer visit back to the farm here where I grew up, I think I figured out the central problem with modern industrial agriculture. It's not just t...

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