Articles by Nicholas Kristof – The New York Times

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I Saw a Genocide in Slow Motion in Burma/Myanmar
Nicholas Kristof – The New York Times, 12 Mar 2018

2 Mar 2018 — Sometimes Myanmar uses guns and machetes for ethnic cleansing. But it also kills more subtly and secretly by regularly denying medical care and blocking humanitarian aid to Rohingya. Myanmar and its Nobel Peace Prize-winning leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, are trying to make the Rohingya’s lives unlivable, while keeping out witnesses.

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‘Drug Dealers in Lab Coats’
Nicholas Kristof – The New York Times, 23 Oct 2017

18 Oct 2017 – For decades, America has waged an ineffective war on drug pushers and drug lords, regarding them as among the most contemptible specimens of humanity. One reason our efforts have failed is we ignored the biggest drug pushers of all: American pharmaceutical companies, which helped get America hooked on opioids.

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Obama Success, or Global Shame?
Nicholas Kristof – The New York Times, 9 Jun 2014

What’s odious about what is happening here is that the suffering is deliberately inflicted as government policy. The authorities are stripping members of one ethnic group of citizenship, then interning them in camps or villages, depriving them of education, refusing them medical care — and even expelling humanitarians who seek to save their lives.

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