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Nicholas KristofThe New York Times |
The United States helped create safeguards to limit the brutality of war, and now I fear President Trump is dismantling them.
The Iranian people are not overthrowing their government, and the war is spreading across the region.
We don’t know how likely it is that the attacks will be successful, nor what costs or risks they bring.
Every year, more than 100,000 children may be sold for sex in the United States. Are we willing to do something about that?
New disclosures underscore that the White House is enveloped in a culture of corruption with no precedent in American history.
What if the valedictorians in our schools were the cool kids?
As in the Civil Rights battles of the 1960s, Americans are at a fork and must pick their path.
Some of the best coaches we can find to help struggling children escape poverty may be other children and their families.
The risk of Chinese aggression is hard to gauge, but it surely grows if we signal that Beijing has a free hand.
We don’t want our children patrolling hostile streets in Greenland or Canada any more than in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Even more likely than an all-out invasion of Taiwan may be “gray zone” pressures, such as cutting internet cables.
One reason for the toxicity of American politics may be that our quality of life is slipping behind our peers’.
Many are celebrating the ouster of a brutal dictator, but the Maduro regime may survive the loss of Maduro.
OK, 2025 wasn’t the best year ever. But we’re arguably still in the best decade in the history of humanity.
A militia accused of genocide has seized a city of a quarter-million people, and it now appears from satellites to be a ghost town.
We must do far more to address the national crisis of addiction that leaves so many households in despair as well as danger.
Each dollar you donate through my holiday guide will generate $4 to nonprofits that are making our world a better place.
Education, open markets, trade and immigration transformed the United States into the world’s dominant power, but each is now being weakened.
Murderous attacks on Christians and Muslims alike are a real problem in Nigeria. Cutting humanitarian assistance there is even more lethal.
Girls as young as 10 are sometimes legally wed here in the U.S., even as we tell other countries to end this cruel practice.
Reports are emerging of atrocities in Darfur. The Trump and Biden administrations could have tried harder to prevent them.
Xi now sees our weakness and will try to exploit it, perhaps leaving America a diminished presence in Asia.
As children die for want of cheap medicines, the U.S. spends billions on Argentina — thus rescuing rich investors who made bad bets.
Who would have imagined I’d ever praise something Trump did in the world of foreign policy?
Trump’s dispatch of National Guard troops to Portland is another dangerous step toward politicizing America’s military forces.
Orphaned in a massacre in Congo, a onetime elementary school dropout is now an American and can teach us something about resilience.
In Uganda, desperation has eroded the social fabric and left women particularly vulnerable.
The dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. is leading to the squandering of taxpayer dollars, as well as of large numbers of lives.
In desperate villages in southwestern Uganda, not only are aid cuts killing children every day, but the death toll is accelerating.
Putin’s move has to be considered a test, and the West needs to think about how to counter it.
There is a growing mountain of imperfect but troubling evidence that pesticides and other chemicals may be behind the exploding rates of the disease.
Both the Biden and Trump administrations have described Sudan as suffering genocide. And no one’s done much about it.
We’ve inherited dazzling public lands because of the vision of long-ago leaders. It’s our job to preserve their beauty.
Why I believe American support for Israel in this conflict is a moral and practical failure.
Ukrainians are heroes. It’s time that Trump started acting like it.
Republicans had a point when they complained that Democrats overreached on immigration. But that’s what the G.O.P. is doing now.
I went to West Africa to report on girls’ education. I left convinced that the Western feminist movement has grown far too comfortable fighting only...
We think of human rights abuses as wartime atrocities, but sometimes they involve what family members do to the people they love.
Someday the regime will crack and people power will prevail. I suspect that will be more likely when there’s peace.
We can’t fix everything. But if it’s cheap and easy to save lives, why wouldn’t we?
Despite Trump’s claim of success, he has created uncertainty and risk.
Aid cuts have reached a level where they undermine our national interest as well as corrode our souls.
Global malnutrition risks getting worse because of Trump’s cuts in humanitarian aid, and here are the effects.
An authoritarian may be transient, but he can leave a legacy of enduring damage.
Many thousands of children are dying because of cuts in American humanitarian aid, and denials by Elon Musk and Marco Rubio don’t change that reality.
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Five years ago at Pornhub, executives were removing the most obvious videos of children. But one employee said ‘obvious’ meant a ‘3-year-old.’
After my dad was disappeared abroad, he fled to this land, which exemplified respect for law and a welcome for refugees. Until now.
Israel’s ‘Gazafication’ of the West Bank displaces 40,000 residents of refugee camps.
Protests against Hamas are encouraging, but prolonged and unnecessary killing still seems likely.
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