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Nicholas Kristof

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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Obama, Please Ignore Kristof For Now

Melissa Gira Grant | Posted 03.09.2009 | World

Read More: Execution, Rape, Violence Against Women, World, Women's Issues, Sex Workers, Violence, Obama Administration, Hiv, Brothels, Nick Kristoff, Barack Obama, HIV/AIDS, Prostitution, Bush Administration, Human Rights, Women's Health, Sex, Cambodia, New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, Asia, World News
Melissa Gira Grant

The Bush administration has supported the raids of Cambodian brothels for at least as long as Kristof has been demanding they step up a fight they are already in -- and losing.

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Solving the Global Food Crisis: The Case for a "Poverty Czar"

Bruce Friedrich | Posted 03.01.2009 | World

Read More: Oecd, Global Poverty, Robert Zoellick, Chatham House, John Podesta, Food Crisis, United Nations, World Bank, Richard Holbrooke, George MItchell, Jacques Diouf, Nicholas Kristof, Paul Krugman, Hillary Clinton, Oxfam, Barack Obama, Gates Foundation, India, Poverty, Biofuels, Afghanistan, Pakistan, US Aid, Haiti Poverty, Middle East, Us Aid to Pakistan, Haiti, Food, Hunger in the United States, China, World News
Bruce Friedrich

Addressing global poverty at its roots means recognizing that the most significant factors driving up food costs are the diversion of crops to biofuels and the growing demand for meat.

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Green Edge 12: Sweatshops Don't Make Sense

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 02.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Edge, Ethical Trading, Nicholas Kristof, Social Accountability International, Sweatshops, sa8000, Fairtrade, Green News
John Tepper Marlin

Higher labor standards protect jobs in workplaces where workers are respected. They also protect consumers who buy from them.

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Women Matter

Michelle Kraus | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senator John Kerry, Committee of Foreign Relations, Senator Hillary Clinton, Women's Rights, Women, Nicholas Kristof, Senator Richard Lugar, Clinton Confirmation Hearings, Senator Barbara Boxer, Politics News
Michelle Kraus

This was a heroic week for women worldwide.

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California Leadin'

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: California, Tom Vilsack, Tom Vilsak, The New York Times, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Proposition 2, Obama Picks Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Animals, Tom Vilsack and Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Michael Pollan, New York Times, Sustainability, Nicholas Kristof, Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Senate Agriculture Committee, Politics News
Wayne Pacelle

There are problems with animal agriculture that still need attention, including painful mutilation of animals without anesthesia, the rampant use of antibiotics on factory farms, and waste generated by these operations.

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Nick Kristof: Don't Confuse Me With Bill Kristol

New York Times | Nicholas Kristof | Posted 01.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Nick Kristof Bill Kristol, New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, Bill Kristol, Nick Kristof, Media News

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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NY Times Grumps Dump On Locavores

Kerry Trueman | Posted 09.08.2008 | Green

Read More: John Tierney, Eat Local Movement, Climate Change, Stanley Fish, Stephen J. Dubner, Marion Burros, Kim Severson, Sustainable Agriculture, New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, Global Warming, Locavore, Food, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Small-scale farmers are thriving and the rest of us are flocking to greenmarkets and planting our own veggie gardens. A handful of knee-jerk naysayers at the Times can't derail this local train.

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Kristof: Iraqi Children Our Moral Responsibility

New York Times | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq Reconstruction, Iraqi Refugees, Iraq War, Nicholas Kristof, Iraq, Iraqi Children, Politics News

The dirty little secret of the Iraq war isn't in Baghdad or Basra. Rather, it's found in the squalid brothels of Damascus and the poorest neighborhood...

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Hillary Clinton Isn't The Only Democratic Presidential Candidate In Denial

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 05.21.2008 | Home

Read More: Sean Bell, Colorblind, Doctors' Racial Bias, Racism, Obama, Nicholas Kristof, Post-Racial, Rahul Parikh, Home News
Leonce Gaiter

Colorblind? Post-racial? Isn't it clear that's all so much bullshit. We are all animals prone to prejudice. The price of continued denial among the Obama camp could be the election.

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China Exporting Inflation: Political Spin or Economic Reality?

Eben Esterhuizen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Jeremy Warner, Low-Cost Imports, China Inflation, Inflation, Cheap Goods, Weak Dollar, Nicholas Kristof, China, Consumer Price Index, Business News
Eben Esterhuizen

China has been a convenient scapegoat for politicians lately, and now China, with its crawling peg to the weak dollar, is being blamed for exporting inflation. Is this political spin, or is there a real danger of importing higher inflation from China?

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Jason Linkins

Kristof Offers Nonsensical Support For McCain

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain Votes Against Waterboarding Ban, John McCain, New York Times, John McCain Votes for Waterboarding, Nicholas Kristof, John McCain Torture, John McCain Votes, Nick Kristoff, Mccain Torture, Politics News

McCain is the world's worst panderer, mainly because his pandering is exacerbated by a stunning ineptness. Somehow, all of McCain's inconsistencies strike Kristof as laudable.

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