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In an Aging World, a Youthful Africa Steps Up

Forecasts suggest that by 2100, a majority of the world’s babies will be African, leading to predictions of an African century.

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‘Our Beloved Gaza Is Gone’

‘Our Beloved Gaza Is Gone’

So many children killed and injured, yet a lasting Middle East peace seems no closer.

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Trump Is Already Making America Weaker and More Vulnerable

Trump Is Already Making America Weaker and More Vulnerable

Favoring TikTok over national security, releasing rioters, undermining global health efforts — these actions put all of us at risk.

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Even This Year Is the Best Time Ever to Be Alive

Even This Year Is the Best Time Ever to Be Alive

What matters isn’t so much a Trump rant as that children are less likely to die now than at any other time in the history of the world.

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A Low-Tech Way to Save Babies’ Lives

A Low-Tech Way to Save Babies’ Lives

Researchers say hundreds of thousands of babies’ lives could be saved each year in developing countries with exclusive breastfeeding.

10.01.2025 70

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Gift Ideas That Push Back the Darkness

Advertisement Supported by Nicholas Kristof By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist This column is part of Times Opinion’s 2024 Giving Guide. Read...

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My Manifesto for Despairing Democrats

Advertisement Supported by Nicholas Kristof By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist So what do we do now? For those who think as I do, the election...

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I’ve Covered Authoritarians Abroad. Now I Fear One at Home.

Advertisement Supported by Nicholas Kristof By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist With this presidential election seemingly a jump ball, what might...

02.11.2024 1

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Don’t Let Liberal Purity Elect Trump

Advertisement Supported by Nicholas Kristof By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist If Donald Trump is elected president on Tuesday, one factor may...

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Trump Acts Erratically. Is This Age-Related Decline?

Advertisement Supported by Nicholas Kristof By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist What should we think as Donald Trump urges people to vote in...

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Biden Has an Opportunity Now in Gaza, but Only if He Pushes

Advertisement Supported by Nicholas Kristof By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist The question now is: Can Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of...

19.10.2024 10

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Biden Sought Peace but Facilitated War

Netanyahu repeatedly rolled the American president, leading us all to the precipice of a much larger war.

05.10.2024 1

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‘Don’t Kill My Child. Kill Me Instead.’

The world has largely abandoned Sudan, but this woman risked everything to stand up to evil.

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What We Can Learn From an Orphan in Sudan

The passivity of world leaders in the face of atrocities in Sudan contrasts with the deep sense of moral responsibility of a Sudanese refugee child...

26.09.2024 40

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When Gunmen Impose a Policy of Rape

At the U.N., will President Biden and other world leaders stand up for the victims or for the countries fueling war, rape and hunger?

21.09.2024 20

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I Just Went to Darfur. Here Is What Shattered Me.

“So many men were killed, like grains of sand,” says one survivor.

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The Climate Peril We Overlook

Advertisement Supported by Nicholas Kristof By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist Our planet has just endured its hottest summer on record, with...

14.09.2024 9

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Forget the Yacht. The Best Travel Is on Foot, Through Wilderness.

Advertisement Supported by Nicholas Kristof By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist reporting from Mount Hood, Ore. Some folks think the best way to...

07.09.2024 3

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Here’s Why We Shouldn’t Demean Trump Voters

Advertisement Supported by Nicholas Kristof By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist Some of the best advice Democrats have received recently came...

31.08.2024 300

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Is Europe a Model for America? Or a Warning?

The continent softens the edges of capitalism and achieves impressive well-being, but it overregulates and is struggling to keep up.

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Republicans Are Right: One Party Is ‘Anti-Family and Anti-Kid’

Advertisement Supported by Nicholas Kristof By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist In attacking Democrats and Kamala Harris, Republicans have been...

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My Travel Tips for Seeing the World’s Best Places

Advertisement Supported by Nicholas Kristof By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist ’Tis the season for vacations, so let me make my pitch that the...

10.08.2024 6

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Dogs Are the Best! But They Highlight Our Hypocrisy.

Advertisement Supported by Nicholas Kristof By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist Over the past couple of decades, dogs have evolved into humans....

03.08.2024 80

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A.I. May Save Us, or May Construct Viruses to Kill Us

Advertisement Supported by Nicholas Kristof By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist Here’s a bargain of the most horrifying kind: For less than...

28.07.2024 70

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Here’s the Hope if Biden Withdraws

Advertisement Supported by Nicholas Kristof By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist An assassination attempt. An official Republican presidential...

20.07.2024 1

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It’s No Big Deal That a Woman May Be the President. What a Beautiful Thing.

Advertisement Supported by Nicholas Kristof By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist In her concession speech to President-elect Donald Trump in...

13.07.2024 8

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President Biden, Voters Want Change

Advertisement Supported by Nicholas Kristof By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist There’s a dollop of good news for Democrats from the British...

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