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Trump Revives Foreign Aid, Helping Needy Billionaires

Trump Revives Foreign Aid, Helping Needy Billionaires

As children die for want of cheap medicines, the U.S. spends billions on Argentina — thus rescuing rich investors who made bad bets.

23.10.2025 300

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What Lies Ahead in the Middle East Isn’t Right vs. Wrong. It’s Right vs. Right.

What Lies Ahead in the Middle East Isn’t Right vs. Wrong. It’s Right vs. Right.

Who would have imagined I’d ever praise something Trump did in the world of foreign policy?

16.10.2025 80

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Mr. President, May We Interest You in a Naked Bike Ride?

Trump’s dispatch of National Guard troops to Portland is another dangerous step toward politicizing America’s military forces.

04.10.2025 10

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One Girl’s Journey After Her Grandma Said to Kill Her

Orphaned in a massacre in Congo, a onetime elementary school dropout is now an American and can teach us something about resilience.

02.10.2025 100

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The Tax on Being a Girl

In Uganda, desperation has eroded the social fabric and left women particularly vulnerable.

27.09.2025 100

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The Lives and Money We Are Wasting

The dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. is leading to the squandering of taxpayer dollars, as well as of large numbers of lives.

25.09.2025 90

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Trump’s Most Lethal Policy

In desperate villages in southwestern Uganda, not only are aid cuts killing children every day, but the death toll is accelerating.

20.09.2025 100

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Russia’s Brazen Drone Incursion Into Poland Needs a Response

Putin’s move has to be considered a test, and the West needs to think about how to counter it.

11.09.2025 30

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The Clue to Unlocking Parkinson’s May Be All Around Us

There is a growing mountain of imperfect but troubling evidence that pesticides and other chemicals may be behind the exploding rates of the disease.

08.09.2025 80

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Where There’s No Debate About Genocide — and No Response Either

Both the Biden and Trump administrations have described Sudan as suffering genocide. And no one’s done much about it.

30.08.2025 60

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At Times Like These, My Advice: Take a Hike!

We’ve inherited dazzling public lands because of the vision of long-ago leaders. It’s our job to preserve their beauty.

24.08.2025 10

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Answering My Critics About the War in Gaza

Why I believe American support for Israel in this conflict is a moral and practical failure.

16.08.2025 100

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Mr. President, Stop Coddling Putin

Ukrainians are heroes. It’s time that Trump started acting like it.

14.08.2025 70

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A Pro-Trump Community Reckons With Losing a Beloved Immigrant Neighbor

Republicans had a point when they complained that Democrats overreached on immigration. But that’s what the G.O.P. is doing now.

19.07.2025 10

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It Isn’t Freedom if It’s Not for Everyone

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...

06.07.2025 70

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The West African Girls Leading a Quiet Revolution

We think of human rights abuses as wartime atrocities, but sometimes they involve what family members do to the people they love.

03.07.2025 30

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What’s More Powerful Than Bombs

Someday the regime will crack and people power will prevail. I suspect that will be more likely when there’s peace.

28.06.2025 20

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Why Is World Hunger America’s Problem?

We can’t fix everything. But if it’s cheap and easy to save lives, why wouldn’t we?

26.06.2025 100

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The Three Unknowns After the U.S. Strike on Iran

Despite Trump’s claim of success, he has created uncertainty and risk.

22.06.2025 100

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The Waste Musk Created

Aid cuts have reached a level where they undermine our national interest as well as corrode our souls.

21.06.2025 200

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This Problem Is Easy to Solve

Global malnutrition risks getting worse because of Trump’s cuts in humanitarian aid, and here are the effects.

19.06.2025 200

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Hope After Trump

An authoritarian may be transient, but he can leave a legacy of enduring damage.

08.06.2025 100

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Really, Secretary Rubio? I’m Lying About the Kids Dying Under Trump?

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.

01.06.2025 1000

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Trump Is Immensely Vulnerable

Advertisement Supported by Nicholas Kristof By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist How can Americans best defend their democracy from their...

24.05.2025 10

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These Internal Documents Show Why We Shouldn’t Trust Porn Companies

Five years ago at Pornhub, executives were removing the most obvious videos of children. But one employee said ‘obvious’ meant a ‘3-year-old.’

10.05.2025 40

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American Values Are Threatened by the American President

After my dad was disappeared abroad, he fled to this land, which exemplified respect for law and a welcome for refugees. Until now.

27.04.2025 200

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‘I Want to Be Martyred,’ a Palestinian Boy Declares

Israel’s ‘Gazafication’ of the West Bank displaces 40,000 residents of refugee camps.

05.04.2025 30

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In Gaza, ‘How Do You Heal a Scarred Soul?’

Protests against Hamas are encouraging, but prolonged and unnecessary killing still seems likely.

03.04.2025 50

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Meet the Opposite of Elon Musk

Valentino Deng also has roots in South Africa, but he exudes the empathy that Musk scorns.

22.03.2025 80

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Our Silence in the Face of Genocide

Our silence about Sudan and the cancellation of U.S. aid comes painfully close to complicity.

20.03.2025 90

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Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.

A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result...

15.03.2025 400

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The Thing That Could Be Trump’s Undoing

Voters may resent egg prices more than damage to America’s democratic norms.

08.03.2025 90

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Join My Bewildered Liberals Book Club

Democrats will have no shot at containing Trump if they don’t first understand why voters turn to him.

23.02.2025 70

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With Trump’s Prostration to Putin, Expect a More Dangerous World

Advertisement Supported by Nicholas Kristof By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist I’m not sure most Americans appreciate the monumental damage...

20.02.2025 300

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Not Quite a Unified Theory of Trumpism, but Still an Alarming Pattern

Trump’s actions remind me of authoritarians I’ve covered for four decades around the globe.

15.02.2025 100

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The U.S.A.I.D. Chaos Already Has Dire Effects

U.S.A.I.D. keeps children alive and us safe.

13.02.2025 300

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The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children

I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.

06.02.2025 1500

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If Kennedy Is Blind to Science, Why Entrust Him With Our Health?

When we face some risk of a bird flu pandemic, do we want to entrust our health to a man who has fought lifesaving vaccines?

01.02.2025 70

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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.

30.01.2025 70

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‘Our Beloved Gaza Is Gone’

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

25.01.2025 10

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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.

23.01.2025 200

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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.

19.01.2025 200

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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...

23.11.2024 100

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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...

07.11.2024 300

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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 5

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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...

31.10.2024 400

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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...

26.10.2024 80

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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 5

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