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Since President Biden's disastrous debate performance in June, the columnist Nicholas Kristof has noticed that Biden's language has sounded a lot like his opponent's: criticizing the press, questioning the polls, [...]

Before I get to President Biden, let me tell you about my love for a different presidential candidate. In 1972, when I was 13 years old, I knocked on doors [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kristof There's a dollop of good news for Democrats from the British and French elections, but it's bad news for President Biden. The basic lesson is that liberals [...]

In her concession speech to President-elect Donald Trump in November 2016, Hillary Clinton declared, ''We have still not shattered that highest and hardest glass ceiling, but some day someone will [...]

The calls for President Biden to withdraw from the presidential race have mostly been made lovingly, in https://x.com/NickKristof/status/1806508213208248501 of deep respect. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/10/opinion/biden-france-uk-elections.html have known and https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/opinion/joe-biden-drop-out.html for decades, and we [...]

There's a dollop of good news for Democrats from the British and French elections, but it's bad news for President Biden. The basic lesson is that liberals can win elections […]

Byline: Nicholas Kristof A sign at the entrance to the Nassar family farm reads: 'We refuse to be enemies.' In a land torn apart by conflict, hatred and violence, this [...]

A sign at the entrance to the Nassar family farm reads: 'We refuse to be enemies.' In a land torn apart by conflict, hatred and violence, this farm is an […]

Gretchen Whitmer, Kamala Harris, President Biden -- who is best positioned to beat Donald Trump in November? With President Biden's candidacy in question, we asked six New York Times Opinion […]

Byline: Nicholas Kristof In responding to the war in Gaza for more than eight months, President Biden has often seemed weak - upset over the humanitarian toll but not acting [...]

In responding to the war in Gaza for more than eight months, President Biden has often seemed weak -- upset over the humanitarian toll but not acting firmly to reduce [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kristof The West Bank village of Qusra was smoldering as I arrived. Clouds of black smoke swirled from a field where rampaging Israeli settlers had lit it on [...]

The West Bank village of Qusra was smoldering as I arrived. Clouds of black smoke swirled from a field where rampaging Israeli settlers had lit it on fire, while also [...]

The stakes in this year's presidential election are the greatest in my lifetime. So as a way to frame the choice before voters, I offer these foreign policy questions for [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kristof A few months ago, President Biden seemed so fed up as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel ignored his calls for restraint in Gaza that he finally [...]

A few months ago, President Biden seemed so fed up as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel ignored his calls for restraint in Gaza that he finally sounded tough. In [...]

As Democrats make their case to voters around the country this fall, one challenge is that some of the bluest parts of the country -- cities on the West Coast [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kristof Many of us liberals now find ourselves in an awkward spot on immigration. For years we have denounced draconian steps by Republicans to bar desperate migrants. But [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kristof I've been on a book tour for the last few weeks, speaking around the country, and one of the questions I get asked most often isn't about [...]

I've been on a book tour for the last few weeks, speaking around the country, and one of the questions I get asked most often isn't about my book at [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kristof I wrote a column recently lamenting the decline in marriage rates, noting that a record half of American adults are now unmarried. As a long-married romantic myself, [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kristof In a speech in Warsaw two years ago, President Biden declared that 'the great battle for freedom' is one 'between a rules-based order and one governed by [...]

In a speech in Warsaw two years ago, President Biden declared that ''the great battle for freedom'' is one ''between a rules-based order and one governed by brute force.'' Now [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kristof Now that President Biden is pressuring Israel to back away from an all-out invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah, some supporters of Israel feel betrayed. [...]

The decision on Monday by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/world/middleeast/icc-hamas-netanyahu.html for leaders of Hamas and Israel probably will not result in anyone being put on trial [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kristof First they killed the adults. 'Then they piled up the children and shot them,' a witness told Human Rights Watch. 'They threw their bodies into the river.' [...]

First they killed the adults. ''Then they piled up the children and shot them,'' a witness told Human Rights Watch. ''They threw their bodies into the river.'' That's a scene [...]

Mr. Kristof is the author of a new memoir, ''Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life,'' from which this essay is adapted. More than three-quarters of Americans say the United States is [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kristof Mr. Kristof is the author of a new memoir, 'Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life,' from which this essay is adapted. More than three-quarters of Americans say the [...]

For seven months, President Biden has https://abcnews.go.com/International/biden-embraces-netanyahu-steps-off-air-force-tel/story?id=104063578 to show more restraint in its war in Gaza and to allow more aid into the territory, and he has been mostly ignored. [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kristof An American surgeon who volunteered in Gaza sent me a photo that sears me with its glimpse of overwhelming grief: A woman mourns her young son. I've [...]

Israeli forces have entered Rafah, near the Egyptian border of the Gaza Strip, but we don’t yet fully understand whether this is the beginning of a full-scale ground invasion of [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kristof Student protesters: I admire your empathy for Gazans, your concern for the world, your moral ambition to make a difference. But I worry about how peaceful protests [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kristof During the Darfur genocide and humanitarian crisis two decades ago, then-Senator Joe Biden passionately denounced then-President George W. Bush for failing to act decisively to ease suffering. [...]

During the Darfur genocide and humanitarian crisis two decades ago, then-Senator Joe Biden passionately denounced then-President George W. Bush for failing to act decisively to ease suffering. Biden expressed outrage [...]

Soon after the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, the Israeli defense minister https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/09/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-siege-hamas.html to impose a “https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/09/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-siege-hamas.html” on Gaza: “no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel” would be allowed [...]

President Biden threatened on Thursday to condition aid to Israel on its treatment of civilians in Gaza. But it’s not clear that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel will take [...]

With little notice, the United States may be crossing a historic milestone in family structure, one that may shape our health, wealth and happiness. Historically, most American adults were married [...]

Patrick Healy, Deputy Opinion Editor Nick, you’ve https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/sunday/pornhub-rape-trafficking.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/opinion/pornhub-news-child-abuse.html https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/opinion/sunday/kristof-when-states-abuse-women.html about exploitation, abuse and trafficking of women and girls. Your https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/23/opinion/deepfake-sex-videos.html on deepfake nude videos showed us new ways that [...]

Alarms are blaring about artificial intelligence deepfakes that manipulate voters, like the robocall sounding like President Biden that went to New Hampshire households, or the fake video of Taylor Swift [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kristof President Biden is sounding tougher toward Israel these days and showing more compassion for people starving in Gaza. 'There are a lot of innocent people who are [...]

There’s much we don’t understand about Israel’s https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/03/18/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news with tanks and bulldozers on Monday. But the hospital assault raises further questions about Israel’s stated aim of eradicating Hamas in Gaza [...]

President Biden is sounding tougher toward Israel these days and showing more compassion for people starving in Gaza. ''There are a lot of innocent people who are in trouble and [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kristof As Democrats puzzle over how President Biden can be so unpopular, it's worth looking at the global context - because he's actually doing better than most Western [...]

As Democrats puzzle over how President Biden can be so unpopular, it's worth looking at the global context -- because he's actually doing better than most Western leaders. In the [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kristof When President Biden weighs American policy toward Gaza, may he think of a gentle scholar named Mohammed Alshannat. Alshannat is a Palestinian in Gaza who at the [...]

When President Biden weighs American policy toward Gaza, may he think of a gentle scholar named Mohammed Alshannat. Alshannat is a Palestinian in Gaza who at the start of the [...]

President Biden reportedly https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/03/07/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news that American troops will build a temporary port to deliver aid to Gaza by sea. That’s welcome, but utterly inadequate. Like the airdrops of food that [...]

A Florida school district, facing pressure about ''nudity'' in schools, removed from shelves a picture book that showed an illustration of a goblin's bare bottom. Some students were saved from [...]