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Nicholas Kristof

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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Taking Women's Rights Seriously

Gordon Brown | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sheryl WuDunn, Women, Nicholas Kristof, Womens Rights, Angie Brooks Center, Half the Sky, Liberia Women, Politics News
Gordon Brown

Our duty is to deny future historians the opportunity to question how this generation allowed and participated in the abuse and suppression of girls and women.

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Boys Bite Beast

Ellen Snortland | Posted 09.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Misogyny, Bob Herbert, Maureen Dowd, Nicholas Kristof, Gender, Gail Collins, Living News
Ellen Snortland

Women and girls need men and boys who are willing to articulate the injustice they see toward their mothers, sisters, daughters and wives.

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Celebrating The Storytellers: 5 Articles About New Radicals

Julia Moulden | Posted 09.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Catherine Porter, Pakistan, Observer, Tim Lewis, Nicholas Kristof, Brian Mockenhaupt, Guardian, Trojan War, Toronto Star, Poetry, Veterans, Julia Moulden, Nobel Prize, New Radicals, Africa, New York Times, Marge Piercey, John Vidal, E.B. White, Cottage, Atlantic, Living News
Julia Moulden

Michelle and Tal offered me their cottage for a week this summer. Prime time on a northern lake. How could I say no? One morning I slipped down to th...

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Reflections on Afghanistan

Susan Davis | Posted 09.05.2009 | World

Read More: Brac, Women, Sheryl WuDunn, Susan Davis, Half the Sky, Microfinance, BRAC Afghanistan, Nicholas Kristof, World News
Susan Davis

I was glad to discover during my travels in Afghanistan that a mood of despair was giving way to hope and determination.

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Summer Reading, Literary IQ and a Pop Quiz

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 09.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Nicholas Kristof, Education, Teachers, Summer Reading, Summer, Iq, Books, Living News
Kenneth C. Davis

Summer also means the often dread Summer Reading List. Many parents spend the summer in an endless harangue, telling their kids to read. But there is actually a good reason for that nag.

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No News Isn't Good News

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 08.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Darfur, Marc Kielburger, Nicholas Kristof, Media, International News, Craig Kielburger, Journalism, Media News
Craig and Marc Kielburger

Foreign bureaus are easy targets as newspapers make cuts to satisfy their budgets. Maintaining bureaus is incredibly expensive. But losing the coverage is beneficial to no one.

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The Hardwiring of Human Empathy: How We Can Save One Child at a Time

Mallika Chopra | Posted 08.21.2009 | World

Read More: Community Service, Nicholas Kristof, Empathy, Service, Helping the Poor, World News
Mallika Chopra

If human empathy works best in one-to-one connections between the individual with resources and the individual in need, then we need to work harder than ever before to bring those one-to-one connections all over the world.

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Bottled Water Takes a Blow Down Under, & Below the Belt

Kerry Trueman | Posted 08.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Elizabeth Royte, Nicholas Kristof, Phthalates, Tap Water, Bottled Water, Bundanoon, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Will Nick Kristof's below-the-belt exposé resonate in the Beltway, which suffers inordinately from an absence of balls and an abundance of little pricks?

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Clean, Sexy Water: Nick Kristof Profiles "Charity: Water"

nytimes.com | NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF | Posted 08.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Charity Water, Clean Sexy Water, Nicholas Kristof, Water, Charity: Water, Green News

People always ask: What can I do to make a difference? So many people in poor countries desperately need assistance. So many people in rich countri...

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Following Up on Kristof in Liberia: Views on Truth and Reconciliation from the Ground

Robert Blair | Posted 08.12.2009 | World

Read More: Charles Taylor, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Liberia, Nicholas Kristof, Africa, World News
Robert Blair

Nicholas Kristof asked, "What on earth is happening in Liberia?" I ask Liberians what they think.

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The Revolution Will Not Be (Petrochemically) Fertilized

Kerry Trueman | Posted 08.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Endocrine Disruptors, Slow Food, Woodbridge Winery, Nicholas Kristof, Will Allen, Stephen Colbert, Roger Doiron, Josh Viertel, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Growing tomatoes has replaced throwing tomatoes as a form of protest; millions of Americans are looking to opt out of our toxic food chain by trying to grow some of their own food this year.

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Katie Couric, Tavis Smiley, Bob Woodward, Nicholas Kristof, and I Hit YouTube with Pointers for Citizen Journalists

Arianna Huffington | Posted 07.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Bob Woodward, Tavis Smiley, YouTube Reporters' Center, Ethics in Journalism, Citizen Journalism, Katie Couric, Youtube, Nicholas Kristof, Investigative Journalism, Journalism, Online Journalism, Eyes and Ears, Media News
Arianna Huffington

Citizen journalism is rapidly emerging as an invaluable part of delivering the news. That's why I was delighted to accept YouTube's invitation to do a video offering my take on citizen journalism for the site's new Reporters' Center. READ MORE London Diary: Gordon Brown's Obsessions, The Loyal Opposition's Cuddly Karl Rove, Bad Germs, and the Most Unusual Royal Honeymoon Ever I just ended three days in London that were like a cram session in British politics -- ranging from a conversation with Gordon Brown to dinner with Frances and George Osborne, the Tories' shadow chancellor. READ MORE Watch: Arianna on BBC's "Newsnight" Discussing How the Iran Uprising Is Impacting Journalism Watch: Arianna on MSNBC's "Morning Meeting" Discussing The Financial Crisis and the Sentencing of Bernie Madoff

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Kristof On "Food Inc.": You May Not Eat For A Week

NYT | NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Nicholas Kristof, Food Inc, Agriculture, Food, Kristof Food Inc, Green News

It was particularly unnerving to see leftover animal bits washed over with ammonia and ground into "hamburger filler." If you happen to be eating a ha...

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Journalists Under Fire (And Who's Helping)

Julia Moulden | Posted 07.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Mark Brayne, Journalists, The Nation, Dart Center, Bbc, New Radicals, Eyal Press, George Tiller, Careers, New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, Julia Moulden, Journalism, Living News
Julia Moulden

Did you read Nicholas D. Kristof's "Bullets Over Beijing," his account of being in Tiananmen Square on that fateful night twenty years ago? Uniformed...

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Nicholas Kristof: China's Political Freedom Likely To Increase

CFR | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

Read More: China Communist Party, China Political Freedom, Nicholas Kristof, Nick Kristoff, Foreign Affairs, China, Advocacy, World News

Interviewee: Nicholas D. Kristof, Columnist, The New York Times Interviewer: Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor, CFR.org New York Times columnis...

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Kristof's Monument to Passivism On Tiananmen Sq Aniversary

Matt Browner Hamlin | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

Read More: Tibet, Nick Kristoff, China, China Tiananmen Square, Tiananmen 20th Anniversary, Nicholas Kristof, Tiananmen Square, World News
Matt Browner Hamlin

Unfortunately, what Nick Kristof does today is ensure that his readers will continue to ignore the moral imperative to help people achieve freedom and democracy.

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Ryan Grim

Kristof Asks Readers: Should US Legalize Drugs?

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Drug Legalization, Nicholas Kristof Interview, Nicholas Kristof, War on Drugs, Nicholas Kristof Drug Legalization, Politics News

Nicholas Kristof wants to know: Should the U.S. legalize drugs? The influential New York Times columnist posted the question, which is being asked i...

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My Mother, the Future of Journalism

Rob Fishman | Posted 05.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Scarsdale Inquirer, Jeff Jarvis, Nicholas Kristof, The Daily Me, Scarsdale, Investigative Journalism, Huffington Post, Online Journalism, Journalism, Media News
Rob Fishman

The problem with online journalism is that the parts are weaker than the aspirational whole. Handouts, hobbyists and hired guns can fill short-term voids, but the dilemma of modern journalism, in the long run, remains.

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The Daily We

Rory O'Connor | Posted 04.26.2009 | Media

Read More: Social Media, Anne Kilkenny, Time Magazine, Richard Stengel, Trust, Social Networks, Credibility, Bill Keller, New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, Facebook, Journalism, Sarah Palin, Media News
Rory O'Connor

Are average citizens interested in and capable of decoding that which is useful, credible, "quality journalism" -- and that which is not? And even if they are, will they take the time to do so?

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Hey. Nicholas Kristof and Michelle Rhee! Teachers Are the Keys, Not the Roadblocks to Reforming Schools

Dan Brown | Posted 04.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Teacher Quality, Public Schools, Michelle Rhee, Class Size, Education, Will Okun, New York Times, Washington DC, Teachers Union, Nicholas Kristof, Teachers, Education Reform, Media News
Dan Brown

Nicholas Kristof's effusive essay on DC Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee left me with a sour taste. Here are a few snippets from Kristof's piece, in w...

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Naughty, Naughty Boys and the Collateralized Commodity Bailout

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 04.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Food Commodities, Goldman Sachs, Commodities, Bailout, Lehman Brothers, Paulson, Aig, Nicholas Kristof, Monsanto, Scott Kilman, Bailout Outrage, Business News
Robyn O'Brien

A hot new trend among traders is betting on packages of energy and agricultural futures. Kind of like the bankers bet on subprime mortgages, traders recently invented Collateralized Commodity Obligations.

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George Clooney Videoblog: A Bathroom Tour, Andy Rooney Impression And Nicholas Kristof Showering

Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 04.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Darfur, George Clooney NBC Videoblog, George Clooney, Nicholas Kristof, Video, George Clooney Chad, Chad, Entertainment News

George Clooney filmed a personal videoblog ("the Clooney cam") during a trip he took to Chad with NBC and some of the footage is now online, from a ba...

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Help Us Make a Powerful Noise on International Women's Day

Tom Cappello | Posted 04.04.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Dr. Helene Gayle, Women's Rights, Care, Women's Health, Women and Politics, Nicholas Kristof, Documentary Film, International Women's Day, Christy Turlington-Burns, Natalie Portman, Madeleine Albright, Entertainment News
Tom Cappello

A Powerful Noise takes a provocative look at three women from different countries who overcome seemingly insurmountable odds to bring great change to their society.

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Nick Kristof, George Clooney Share A Guest House In Chad

New York Times | NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF | Posted 03.25.2009 | World

Read More: Darfur, Nicholas Kristof Darfur, George Clooney Darfur, Chad, Genocide, Nick Kristof, Kristof Clooney, Nicholas Kristof, George Clooney, World News

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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