Nicholas Kristof

With Israel possibly winding down its war in Gaza, we should be paying more attention to the crisis building in the more populous West Bank.

He must withdraw from the race.

Where would each of the candidates lead us — or drag us — on foreign policy issues convulsing the world?

By averting his eyes as his red lines are ignored, Biden is wasting his leverage over Israel.

Infected with ideological purity, the West Coast is focused more on intentions than on oversight and outcomes.

His executive order limiting asylum seekers may be political, but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong.

It’s not a black-and-white morality tale.

Bonds between men and women may be eroding when we need them most.

The U.S. should side with the International Court of Justice in the Gaza war.

Why, after decades of conflict reporting, the columnist is still hopeful.

The court’s efforts underscore the moral stain of the starvation in Gaza.

Biden is supporting Israel by trying to restrain it.

While the world’s attention is focused on Ukraine and Gaza, Arab forces in Sudan seem to be trying to eliminate non-Arab tribes.

He’s finally applying leverage.

After decades of reporting on the front lines, I am awed by the material and moral progress the world has made.

Israel’s latest move aggravates a desperate situation.

Every death of a child from the war in Gaza is a preventable tragedy.

I worry that the more aggressive demonstrators may be hurting the Gazans they’re trying to support.

The Biden administration should be more transparent about weapons sent to Israel.

Nicholas Kristof asks: Where has our moral president gone?

The president didn’t start the war in the Middle East. But now it could define his campaign — and his legacy.

The word “famine” can light a fire under international players to act urgently.

Nicholas Kristof on why tech companies aren’t powerless over the spread of deepfake porn.

It’s not clear that Netanyahu will take Biden’s threats seriously.

The strikes on World Central Kitchen damaged Israel’s credibility, and are an embarrassment to the U.S.

As evidence grows about the benefits of tying the knot, married people are poised to become a minority.

We’ve effectively armed predators and exploitative companies with artificial intelligence but denied victims any defense.

It astonishes me that society apparently believes that women and girls should accept becoming the subject of demeaning imagery.

The hospital assault raises further questions about Israel’s stated aim of eradicating Hamas in Gaza as a whole.

While Biden is using tougher language toward Israel, he isn’t backing that up with consequences for being ignored.

Incumbents are unpopular in all Western democracies, but there may be ways to allay the angst driving voter dissatisfaction.

A father’s desperate texts from Gaza offer a window into five months of suffering there.

This looks more like a photo op than an all-out effort to address a humanitarian crisis that the United States has helped to create.

What’s worse than censoring a book? Kids not being able to read it anyway.

Nicholas Kristof on the most effective recovery program he’s ever seen.

Sure, the West applies more scrutiny to Israel than to other countries, but that shouldn’t deflect from the catastrophe in Gaza.

He should instead insist that Israel let aid convoys help starving Palestinians.

Systematically denied food by Israel, scores of Gazans were shot or trampled during a scramble over aid trucks.

The authoritarian Russia that Navalny stood against is the same Russia that too many Americans have buttressed by opposing aid to Ukraine.

A Tulsa program for women with substance use disorder who’ve committed crimes has a good success rate and suggests what works.

Study Spanish in Bolivia. Or teach English in South Korea. Or volunteer in Nepal.

American children are more likely to live in poverty, go hungry and die young than in most of our peer countries. We can fix this.

Yes, Israel has the right to defend itself, but that doesn’t excuse this many civilian deaths.

Some well-meaning U.S. efforts to help Taiwan may end up provoking China when we should be trying to lower tensions.

The International Court of Justice decision should be a wake-up call for Washington.

Replicating the chip-making power of T.S.M.C. in the United States will be much harder than Americans realize.

When we let so many Americans fall behind, they not only suffer greatly but also inflict great suffering on others.

North Korea is acting strangely, and some veteran analysts fear war.

The island saw what China did to Hong Kong and said: Not here.

Readers challenge me on my criticism of Israel’s bombardment.

The Houthis are more than Iranian pawns and are unlikely to retreat from U.S. attacks.

How is a Taiwanese identity distinct from a Chinese one?

In its coming elections, Taiwan is voting in China’s shadow.

Child mortality and extreme poverty appear to have reached record lows in the history of civilization.

Discussing faith, heaven and hypocrisy with the evangelical writer Beth Moore.

Twenty-first-century versions of rooming houses are cropping up and housing workers with few other options.

Every year I take a student along with me on a reporting trip to generate interest in neglected stories.

One child in 150 in Gaza is already dead in this war, some from American weapons.

And how we can apply them to China and Gaza today.

Nicholas Kristof travels to the city for a firsthand look.

Houston demonstrates what should be obvious: that a wealthy society doesn’t have to accept as inevitable throngs of people sleeping on sidewalks.

For my annual giving guide, these three nonprofits are the top reader favorites.

Making assumptions about Israel and Gaza is only fueling the hatred spilling out of the region.

The United States has leverage as Israel’s most important ally and diplomatic protector. It needs to use it to end this war.

Israelis and Palestinians who’ve lost family members to the conflict find strength in grieving together — and offer hope.

Forty-one years after I befriended two Palestinian university students, I met up with them again to talk about their lives.

When children on both sides are slaughtered and people are fearful, it is extremists who invariably are ascendant.

Israel has every right to defend itself and fight terrorists. But is this really the best way?

Nicholas Kristof reports from Tel Aviv.

Even in their anguish, some Israelis call for an end to the cycle of violence.

If all lives have equal value, why do we treat Palestinian civilians as lesser victims, devalued by association with Hamas terrorism?

Killing civilians doesn’t end extremism. It feeds it.

The U.S. bungled its response to 9/11. Let’s hope Israel moves forward with greater wisdom.

Yes, they overreach at times, but as they weakened, so did our social fabric.

If India is found to be responsible for the murder of a Sikh leader in Canada, there must be consequences.

In 2003, President Bush started PEPFAR to fight AIDS. But after saving 25 million lives, its future is in doubt.

At the U.N., world leaders promised to work to end poverty, illiteracy and child marriage. So much for their promises.

We can’t have a serious conversation about poverty and inequality without contemplating the breakdown of marriage and family.

Britain’s minister for loneliness offers a model of how to knit together a lonely crowd.

Azerbaijan is blockading the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, and people are dying.

As kids head back to school, Nicholas Kristof wants America to learn from the Magnolia State.

Democrats wag their fingers at a blue-collar singer when they should be applauding his core message about left-behind Americans.

The best thing about America may be our wild places. So why don’t we venture into them more often?

At present rates, only a minority of Americans will identify as Christian by the mid-2030s.

We can start by expanding access to care, but we also need to look beyond medicine and address harmful behaviors and poverty.

Newly released videos by undercover investigators underscore the abuse of hogs on factory farms.

We need to end legacy admissions and look beyond the Ivy League if we’re going to fix our unequal education system.

Does it make sense for the United States to provide $3.8 billion annually to another rich country, indefinitely?

A survivor warns that decriminalizing the sex trade to allow pimping would promote not empowerment but predation.

A road trip through Eastern Europe underscores how Putin has diminished Russia.

The Baltic countries got Russia right when much of the West got it wrong.

Even after so much loss, Ukrainian war veterans plan to return to the front.

In an age of division, there’s something to be said for royals as a unifying symbol — plus, they are good for tourism and gossip.

Why would Biden reset relations with a crown prince who seeks a nuclear program?

It isn’t about presidential corruption but a determined parent battling his son’s addiction with unconditional love.

We’re told education can end poverty. The truth is more complicated.

We’re told education can end poverty. The truth is more complicated.

Times columnists chose the TV shows, movies, books and songs that capture the country as they see it.

Conservatives are so wrong so often that they are pumping us liberals full of worrying smugness.

A president governing from behind bars? It’s utterly unimaginable. Probably.