Nicholas Kristof

President Trump says, “Portland is burning to the ground.” A judge he appointed says, “The president’s determination was simply untethered to the facts.”

Kristof: Mr. President, just leave Portland alone

October 14, 2025 at 4:22 a.m.

The worry here is that troops won’t address any of the city’s actual challenges and will instead provoke unrest

A mother comforts her malnourished son at a hospital in Khartoum, Sudan in March.

Kristof: Where there’s no debate about genocide — and no response either

September 3, 2025 at 4:15 a.m.

There's bipartisan agreement that Sudan is suffering both genocide and famine and also bipartisan consensus to do little about it.

Protestors gather outside of USAID headquarters in February in Washington, D.C. Elon Musk, tech billionaire and then-head of the Department of Government Efficiency, announced in a social media post that month that he and President Donald Trump would shut down the foreign assistance agency.

Kristof: Really, Secretary Rubio? I’m Lying About the Kids Dying Under Trump?

June 3, 2025 at 2:45 a.m.

State Department's chief can't tell the truth: Cutting off the world's poorest was worth giving its richest tax breaks.

An activist holds a sign during a protest against the Trump administration's policies outside the Texas Capitol, in Austin, Texas, on March 4.

Opinion: The thing that could be Donald Trump’s undoing

March 11, 2025 at 4:30 a.m.

Americans seem fine with a felon who attacks our rule of law and the global system. Just don't mess with egg prices.

USAID humanitarian aid destined for Venezuela at a warehouse on the outskirts of Cucuta, Colombia, on Feb. 19, 2019.

Kristof: The world’s richest man takes on the world’s poorest children

February 7, 2025 at 4:30 a.m.

The world’s richest man is boasting about destroying the U.S. Agency for International Development, which saves the lives of the world’s poorest children, saying he shoved it “into the wood...

A child inspects the damage of his destroyed family home, in Bureij, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, days after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas came into effect. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Kristof: Gaza war proves a tragedy and failure for all

January 28, 2025 at 4:30 a.m.

"I fear we won’t reach the end of Phase 2 and Phase 3 of this ceasefire agreement, any more than we got to the end of the Oslo peace process.'

President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Jan. 21 in Washington.

Kristof: Trump is already making America weaker and more vulnerable

January 25, 2025 at 4:00 a.m.

His moves to leave WHO, pardon Jan. 6 rioters and suspend the TikTok ban only open the country to additional threats.

Violent damage on May 15 on the outskirts of Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman. The Sudanese army has battled the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces since April 2023.

Kristof: Biden won’t point to the real culprit in the Sudanese genocide

January 10, 2025 at 4:45 a.m.

President offers more quiet diplomacy with his failure to call out United Arab Emirates for fueling mass atrocities.

Blake Lively in a scene from the recent movie "It Ends With Us." Lively has filed a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment during its filming.

Kristof: Blake Lively turns the shame around with harassment complaint

December 29, 2024 at 3:42 a.m.

On movie sets or anywhere else, the stigma and humiliation of sexual mistreatment should fall on abusers, not the abused.

An image of Syrian President Bashar Assad, riddled with bullets, is seen on the facade of the provincial government office in the aftermath of the opposition's takeover of Hama, Syria, on Dec. 6.

Kristof: The winners and losers following the fall of Assad

December 10, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Cheers for the overthrow of Syria's brutal regime, but the world must stay vigilant about what comes next.

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