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Nicholas KristofThe New York Times |
Worst of all, the result may be that both Iran and Saudi Arabia end up with nuclear weapons.
Hundreds of thousands of people in Sudan are bracing for their city to be overrun by a militia notorious for committing atrocities.
Our July 4 bash was troubled, and America may go the way of the Ghaznavid Empire. But here are reasons to be more positive.
Musk insists that his demolition of humanitarian aid didn’t cost lives. So I propose he take a trip with me.
Each generation seems destined to learn anew the lesson that when hawks declare that a war will be painless, beware.
Trust, well-being and mental health are all down in America. But some states are better to live in than others, according to a new study.
The fecklessness of Washington leaders contrasts with the courage of doctors, nurses and aid workers in places like Congo.
I once raised pigs. And factory farms raise them today in conditions that are as unconscionable as they are invisible.
Male and female Palestinians describe brutal sexual abuse at the hands of Israel’s prison guards, soldiers, settlers and interrogators.
Trump’s most lethal policy will almost surely be his 71 percent cut in humanitarian aid from 2024 to 2025.
In the Iran war, we have two overconfident administrations facing off, each believing that time is on its side.
As one expert puts it, this war is “an operational success but a huge strategic failure.”
Any deal with Iran would probably be a bad one. But sending ground troops to seize Iranian territory would be an even worse choice.
We could make college accessible for all Americans, restore health care cuts and pretty much end the worst form of global hunger — and still have...
Declaring victory and ending the war might not be so easy.
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.
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