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Nick Kristoff

Meg Ryan, America Ferrara & Olivia Wilde Team Up For New Doc

AP | LYNN ELBER | Posted 09.29.2012 | TV
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LOS ANGELES -- It wasn't a juicy script that brought together a half-dozen Hollywood stars, including Meg Ryan, America Ferrera and Olivia Wilde. It w...

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Is Banking Immoral? Wrong Question.

Jedediah Purdy | Posted 03.21.2012 | Business
Read More: Banking Immoral, The One Percent, Bain Capital, David Brooks, Mitt Romney, Banking Crisis, Morals, Investment Banking, Nick Kristoff, Business News
Jedediah Purdy

This is how we've learned to talk about our economy: as a matter of personal virtue and vice, from the overdrawn consumer to the one-percenter with the fifteen percent tax rate and some senators' private numbers in his iPhone.

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Here's Occupy Wall Street's "One Demand": Sanity

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 12.03.2011 | Politics
Read More: Occupywallstreet, Wall Street, Bob Marley, Activism, American Imperialism, Sanity, William Blake, K Street, Nick Kristoff, Troy Davis, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

The fact that the movement doesn't make demands of Wall Street -- or Washington, for that matter -- doesn't mean it doesn't have demands. It does, but they're not directed at Wall Street, or K Street, or Pennsylvania Avenue. They're directed at you.

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What Do Jim Grant and Melanne Verveer Have in Common?

Stephenie Foster | Posted 06.21.2011 | Impact
Read More: Melanne Verveer, Women, Office of Global Women's Issues, Dept. Of State, Jim Grant, Diplomacy, Development, Nick Kristoff, Women's Empowerment, Impact News
Stephenie Foster

If we are successful at mainstreaming gender and valuing women and girls, we will have better outcomes across the board.

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The Future of Aid and Development?

Tom Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Foreign Aid, Lisa Shannon, International Development, New York Times Magazine, Diy, Elizabeth Sharpf, New York Times, Maggie Doyne, Development, Nick Kristoff, Impact News
Tom Murphy

One thing that is of interest is that many recent aid projects are mostly started by women and for women. Can this cause a positive shift in development? Or, could it create new problems which need to be addressed?

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HuffPost Review: Half the Sky

Bill Gates, Sr. | Posted 09.27.2011 | 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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Kristof's Monument to Passivism On Tiananmen Sq Aniversary

Matt Browner Hamlin | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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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Nicholas Kristof: China's Political Freedom Likely To Increase

CFR | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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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Obama, Please Ignore Kristof For Now

Melissa Gira Grant | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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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Nicholas Kristoff is Wrong

Elaine Petrocelli | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: New York Times, Arthur Brooks, Nicholas Kristoff, Nick Kristoff, Media News
Elaine Petrocelli

Unlike Madoff, few of us can give huge sums to a designated charity that will enable us to get into an exclusive country club where we can meet the right business contacts.

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Stop the Heirs!

Matt Miller | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: New York Senate Seat, John McCain, Nick Kristoff, Caroline Kennedy, Politics News
Matt Miller

Caroline Kennedy is a fine lady, but Nick Kristof has it right regarding the aristocratization of American politics. Nothing's changed since my entry on this demoralizing phenomenon back in March 2001.

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Jason Linkins

Kristof Offers Nonsensical Support For McCain

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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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