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. KristofThe tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.
Nicholas D. KristofHalf a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.
Nicholas D. KristofConservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa is neither... Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause.
Nicholas D. Kristof