Read more Nicholas Kristof stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/35002/nicholas-kristof.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 7:37:03 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72314/more-troops-in-afghanistan-angrier-insurgents.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe United States was born from a nationalist insurgency. “Given that history, you’d think we might be more sensitive to nationalism abroad,” writes Nicholas Kristof. “Yet the most systematic foreign-policy mistake we Americans have made in the post-World War II period has been to underestimate its potency.” It was true...http://www.newser.com/story/72314/more-troops-in-afghanistan-angrier-insurgents.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 22 Oct 2009 9:56:59 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71231/if-congress-cant-pass-health-reform-yank-their-coverage.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNicholas Kristof has a modest proposal for lawmakers who vote down health care reform. If universal coverage is defeated, he writes, let’s take away the insurance of 15% of Congress, at random, and cut benefits to an inadequate level for another 8%. “I wouldn’t wish the trauma of losing health...http://www.newser.com/story/71231/if-congress-cant-pass-health-reform-yank-their-coverage.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 08 Oct 2009 7:30:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70911/want-to-save-dad-insurance-wont-let-you.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSo dear old dad desperately needs a kidney, and the docs say you're the best fit. Tough luck, writes Nicholas Kristof in a look at the case of David Waddington, whose two sons can't donate—because pre-donation screening might reveal to insurance companies that they have the same genetic condition...http://www.newser.com/story/70911/want-to-save-dad-insurance-wont-let-you.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 04 Oct 2009 11:25:15 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68139/current-care-kills-more-than-army-of-death-panels.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDespite screeches that a government-run health care program will bump people into an early grave, "it’s a good bet that our existing dysfunctional health system knocks off far more people than an army of ‘death panels’ could, even if they did exist," writes Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times...http://www.newser.com/story/68139/current-care-kills-more-than-army-of-death-panels.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 30 Aug 2009 8:09:41 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67531/modern-farming-has-lost-its-soul.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWe know today’s food industry cranks out “unhealthy food, mishandles waste, and overuses antibiotics,” writes Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times , but the heart of the matter is that today’s industrial farms have “no soul.” In a visit back to his old stomping grounds, Kristof reflects that the “kind...http://www.newser.com/story/67531/modern-farming-has-lost-its-soul.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 23 Aug 2009 10:56:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66220/time-to-get-tough-with-n-korea.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGetting Laura Ling and Euna Lee out of North Korea was a cakewalk compared to the real diplomatic struggles between the Obama administration and the rogue nation, writes Nicolas Kristof. The New York Times columnist, who has visited North Korea five times, used to favor engagement with Kim Jong-Il's regime....http://www.newser.com/story/66220/time-to-get-tough-with-n-korea.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 06 Aug 2009 6:37:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62804/on-health-reform-obama-should-heed-his-doc-not-ama.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIts membership may abide by the Hippocratic Oath, but the American Medical Association is definitely doing the public harm in its opposition to meaningful health care reform, writes Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times . The AMA has become infamous for its lousy political stands: it supported segregation, backed tobacco,...http://www.newser.com/story/62804/on-health-reform-obama-should-heed-his-doc-not-ama.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 25 Jun 2009 8:19:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60936/what-happened-to-the-tiananmen-spirit.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTwenty years ago today, Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times was in Tiananmen Square, sweating in fear and watching as "'People’s China' opened fire on its people." The soldiers had shot at ambulances, too, so no one was helping the wounded—except the rickshaw drivers. One driver, tears in...http://www.newser.com/story/60936/what-happened-to-the-tiananmen-spirit.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 04 Jun 2009 8:52:22 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/55745/animal-rights-no-longer-for-vegetarians-only.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagElecting a black man president wasn’t the only historic thing voters did last November, writes Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times . California voted, by nearly a 2-1 margin, for an animal-rights initiative that bars farms from keeping calves, pregnant hogs, or hens in cages too small for them. And...http://www.newser.com/story/55745/animal-rights-no-longer-for-vegetarians-only.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 09 Apr 2009 9:55:53 CDT