The Columns of Nick Kristof
Nicholas Donabet Kristof (born April 27, 1959 in Yamhill, Oregon) is an American journalist, author, op-ed columnist, and a winner of two Pulitzer Prizes. He has written an op-ed column for The New York Times since November 2001 and is widely known for bringing to light human rights abuses in Asia and Africa. He has lived on four continents, reported on six, and traveled to 140 countries (including North Korea), plus all 50 states. According to his blog, during his travels he has had "unpleasant experiences with malaria, wars, an Indonesian mob carrying heads on pikes, and an African airplane crash".^[1]

His books include China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power (1994), Thunder from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia (2000)—both co-authored with his wife Sheryl WuDunn, and The Japanese Economy at the Millennium: Correspondents' Insightful Views (1999). (www.wikipedia.org)

• How Do You Solve a Crisis Like Darfur?
• China’s Genocide Olympics:

• Car Washes And Genocide:
• Saving the World in Study Hall:

• A Genocide Foretold:
• Africa’s Next Slaughter:
  

• Africa’s World War:
• Video of Kristof’s Trip to Rwanda: 
• A 'Painful Way to Die':

Teacher Websites © 2010 SchoolWorld