Nicholas D. Kristof

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Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses

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It was in 1931 that the historian James Truslow Adams coined the phrase “the American dream

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Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil

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Often we blame a region's religion when the oppression instead may be rooted in its culture. Yet, that acknowledged, it's also true that . . . it is often cited by the oppressors

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In talking about misogyny and gender-based violence, it would be easy to slip into the conceit that men are the villains. But it's not true. Granted, men are often brutal to women. Yet it is women who routinely manage brothels in poor countries, who ensure that their daughter's genitals are cut, who feed sons before daughters, who take their sons but not their daughters to clinics for vaccination