We tie ourselves in knots when we act as if democracy is good for the United States and Israel but not for the Arab world. For far too long, we've treated the Arab world as just an oil field.
Nicholas D. KristofAmericans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.
Nicholas D. KristofThe greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.
Nicholas D. KristofYou don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.
Nicholas D. KristofMore girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in the 20th century. More girls are killed in this routine gendercide in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the 20th century. The equivalent of 5 jumbo jets worth of women die in labor each day... life time risk of maternal death is 1,000x higher in a poor country than in the west. That should be an international scandal.
Nicholas D. Kristof