When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One of the few societies to take a contrary view was the Huichol tribe in Mexico. The Huichol believed that the pain of childbirth should be shared, so the mother would hold on to a string tied to her… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share
If only women are talking about women's rights, then the issue has failed from the start. If you think about the Holocaust,… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Our national leaders tend to try to protect the national interest as they see it. They may screw up in that, but they at… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Palestinian militancy has accomplished nothing but increasing the misery of the Palestinian people. If Palestinians instead turned more to huge Gandhi-style nonviolence resistance campaigns,… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
American airstrikes...create risks, especially if our intelligence there is rusty. The crucial step, and the one we should apply diplomatic pressure to try to achieve, is for Maliki to step back and share power with Sunnis while accepting decentralization of government. If Maliki does all that, it may still be possible to save Iraq. Without that, airstrikes would be a… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share
Let me be clear: I'm a believer in a robust military, which is essential for backing up diplomacy. But the implication is that we… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
