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more about #nicholaskristof more comments → bumbleleaf: I was just listening to On the Media, whereing Nicholas Kristof was talking about his story telling strategy. Just recently Kristof was thoroughly cas... more » sybann: Did anyone else think that the conclusions reached by the show (lift up one woman and you save her entire community) was overly simplistic? We are no ... more » Spiderra: The reason I don't like Kristoff and WuDunn's work is that it continues to discursively construct non-Western women as helpless, passive victims that ... more » Scout: whew! I just read every comment and all my tiny pea brain kept playing over and over was an image of Kristoff and WuDunn on one side of a couch, Opra... more » Everything MidnightBikeRide does is a balloon.: I think it's sad that the conversation on this comes down to "eh, they could be doing less." Really? I think that most American TV viewers already ha... more » meloroast: Change will come when women are no longer perceived as objects, as commodities, as disposable. This will require a complete shift in not only how men ... more » singawhore: On an individual basis, yes, it helps. But results from this type of aid is often dismissed as "anecdotal" (whatever that implies when it means a youn... more » xay: I'm really uncomfortable with Kristof. He and his wife are doing good things and their hearts are in the right place, but sometimes I feel like he is ... more » TallyCola: I wish people wouldn't say stuff like "slavery was the problem for the 19th century", because what is happening to these women IS slavery. There is TO... more » SarsDoesntSave: I get the criticism, I really do. But at the same time, it seems to me that when a person with a platform like this is willing to bring awareness to ... more » PilgrimSoul: Well, Latoya, the answer is plainly no. I really think that most men and white people and even, hell, people in the developed world generally, are si... more » History Major: Oprah is damned if she does and damned if she doesn't. She takes time out to invite people on the show to talk about a subject dear to her heart and o... more » marciax3: "Is human intervention enough in the face of structural and societal problems of this magnitude?" In a word, yes. Okay, maybe one girl was saved from ... more » ElleL: Brad is conjuring up 12 Monkeys these days. Angie looks great! #angelinajolie more » CurtCole: So, an Oscar winner, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and a Mountain Goat walk into a bar... #angelinajolie more » -
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Nick Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn Talk Half The Sky With Oprah
Oprah dedicated today's show to a star-studded discussion of the issues facing women around the world. Inviting Nicholas Kristof and his wife and co-author, Sheryl WuDunn to discuss their book Half the Sky, the conversation was both enlightening and frustrating. More » -
#thinkingglobally
Are Women The New "Deserving Poor"?
In this Sunday's New York Times Magazine, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn make the provocative claim that ending discrimination against women and girls may end poverty and even terrorism.
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#dogooders
Mr. Clooney Goes To War
NY Times journalist Nicholas Kristof writes of George Clooney in Darfur: "Mr. Clooney figured that since cameras follow him everywhere, he might as well redirect some of that spotlight to people who need it more." More » -
#newsat10
Mammals & Madams & Menswear, Oh My!
It's easy to get distracted from the depressing reports about unemployment, Army suicides, torture, money laundering and man-made natural disasters when there are cuddly creatures, sex workers and men's fashion in the news this morning. More »
