Nicholas Kristof

The ‘Unshakable’ Bonds of Friendship With Israel Are Shaking

If you oppose war crimes only by your enemies, it’s not clear that you actually oppose war crimes. That’s a thought worth wrestling with as many experts suggest that both Hamas and Israel were engaged in crimes of war in the Gaza conflict. For the same reason that we deplore Hamas’s shelling of…

‘Remote Learning’ is Often an Oxymoron

While President Trump has insisted that schools physically reopen, the private school his son Barron is attending is sticking with remote learning. Yes, that feels like a double standard, but it’s more complicated than that. Barron will have a computer and internet access at home. He’ll have…

My Worst Columns

We journalists like to boast about how many clicks our stories get, or how our columns go viral. Fair enough, but today let me show off my clunkers. These are pieces I wrote that nobody read. Well, not nobody. I read them. My mother did. And that’s about it. These weren’t necessarily my actual…