Nicholas Kristof
Oregon farmboy turned NY Times columnist, author with my wife, @WuDunn, of Half the Sky
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Adam Schiff Is the Congressman Trump Wants You to Hate
Relentless, yes. But “radical left” and “lowlife”? Not at all.
Nicholas Kristof
President Trump is trying to Pelosi @AdamSchiff by suggesting that he is a "radical left" traitor. That's nonsense, but Trump has reason to fear Schiff: He's relentless at a marathon, at a triathlon, and at an impeachment inquiry. My column: nyti.ms/2OVSrvd pic.twitter.com/QkbvdlA3Hm
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Bangladesh indicts 8 for 2015 killing of publisher
A court in Bangladesh's capital on Sunday indicted eight suspected Islamist militants tied to a banned group over the 2015 killing of a man who published books on secularism and atheism.
China Is Leasing an Entire Pacific Island. Its Residents Are Shocked.
What could Beijing want with Tulagi, where Allied forces fought a bloody battle with Japan in World War II? Some fear military ambitions.
Ex-Aide Saw Gordon Sondland as a Potential National Security Risk
A former top White House adviser viewed Mr. Sondland, a Trump donor and the ambassador to the European Union, as a risk because he was so unprepared for his job.
Nicholas Kristof
Former White House aide Fiona Hill worried that Ambassador Gordon Sondland was a national security risk because he was so unprepared for his work with Ukraine
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Nicholas Kristof – The World in 50 Years
We asked some of the boldest thinkers what the world will be like in 50 years. Here’s what their answers tell us about the future.
Nicholas Kristof
What will the world be like in 50 years? How will we have fun? Who will dominate the globe? Will borders still exist? Here's my take, on @qz #Wi50Y
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How Unpredictable Work Hours Turn Families Upside Down
Shifts added or subtracted at short notice play havoc with budgets and lives, and disproportionately hurt black and Hispanic women.
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Nicholas Kristof
So many hourly workers in America suffer from irregular, changing and unpredictable schedules, and important new research shows how damaging these are to families, including kids
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Prescription opioid use is a risk factor for heroin use
Pooling data from 2002 to 2012, the incidence of heroin initiation was 19 times higher among those who reported prior nonmedical pain reliever use than among those who did not (0.39 vs. 0.02 percent) (Muhuri et al., 2013). A study of young, urban...
Nicholas Kristof
Some 80 percent of heroin users in recent times began their addiction with prescription opioids before turning to heroin. drugabuse.gov/publications/r… That's one indication of the responsibility of pharma companies for the 68,000 deaths annually from drug overdoses.
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明報民調：68.8%市民支持大規模重組警隊 五成人評對警方信任度0分 (23:21) - 20191015 - 港聞
《明報》委托中大傳播與民意調查中心，就反修例議題進行民調。反修例衝突中，警方執法惹人批評，民調結果顯示，68.8%市民支持大規模重組警隊，不支持的有22％。
Trump Followed His Gut on Syria. Calamity Came Fast.
All the warnings were there. But President Trump’s reliance on his instincts, and his relationships, led him to ignore the consequences of a move that has emboldened Russia, Iran and the Islamic State.
Rep. Adam Schiff in Conversation with Nicholas Kristof - 92Y, New York
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Nicholas Kristof talks with Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA), Chair of the House Permanent Select Committ
Nicholas Kristof
About to start a conversation with @RepAdamSchiff at 730 pm. You can tune in here: 92y.org/archives/rep-a… pic.twitter.com/u07dtyZQng
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Harold Bloom, Critic Who Championed Western Canon, Dies at 89
A prolific author, he contended that literary giants like Shakespeare, Chaucer and Kafka stood above writers admired by feminists, Marxists, “multiculturalists” and others.
Nicholas Kristof
Harold Bloom, a renowned literary critic who championed the Western canon, is dead at 89.
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A Brazen Scheme, and a Minor Penalty, for Winning Business in China
Confidential documents detail how Deutsche Bank’s hiring practices curried favor with China’s ruling elite. A $4,000 bottle of French wine also helped.
I Almost Flipped a Deep Red District. Here’s What I Learned.
Lead with values. Promote common-sense policies. And don’t give up on rural voters.
The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
Our mission is to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. We do this through research, policy outreach, and training.
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Nicholas Kristof
@Harvard You can get a sense of what the experimental approach to address poverty means at the website of MIT Poverty Action Lab that Banerjee and Duflo helped create
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Nobel in Economics Is Awarded for Work Toward Alleviating Poverty
Three professors, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, both of M.I.T., and Michael Kremer of Harvard, were honored on Monday.
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Nicholas Kristof
The Nobel Memorial Prize in economics has gone to three brilliant scholars who have enormously improved our understanding of how to fight poverty. They use randomized controlled trials to test what works at what cost and have been hugely influential
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How safe is Apple’s Safe Browsing?
This morning brings new and exciting news from the land of Apple. It appears that, at least on iOS 13, Apple is sharing some portion of your web browsing history with the Chinese conglomerate Tence…
Hundreds of ISIS Supporters Flee Detention Amid Turkish Airstrikes
The attacks caused about 700 Islamic State families to escape. The American defense secretary said the U.S. would pull out about 1,000 troops from the area.
Macabre Video of Fake Trump Shooting Media and Critics Is Shown at His Resort
The video was shown at a conference attended by Donald Trump Jr. and Sarah Huckabee Sanders. They said they did not see it.
Nicholas Kristof
This is disgusting: A macabre video of a fake Pres. Trump shooting and stabbing journalists and members of Congress inside a "Church of Fake News" is shown at a conference of Trump supporters at his Miami resort.
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