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The Ukrainian strategy of targeting Russian refining capacity is proving enormously successful. If only the US had allowed Ukraine to strike Russian territory from the beginning....

Our tax dollars at work, costing children's lives worldwide. Secretary Rubio, do you want this to be your legacy? My column: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Of all the terrible things Donald Trump has ever done, the worst has been destruction of #USAID. The gutting of US foreign aid has already cost hundreds of thousands of lives-- and will take millions more. @nickkristof.bsky.social explains: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

I've been reporting in East Africa on the impact of President Trump's USAID cuts, and I find that not only are children dying in large numbers but the pace is accelerating as stockpiles run out and people grow weaker. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Child mortality worldwide has dropped in half over the last 25 years, @billgates.bsky.social notes -- and he argues that we can cut the toll in half again. We know how to do it, if we just have the will. Here's his essay: time.com/7317395/bill...

So much for President Trump’s pledge to restore freedom of expression.

In his second inaugural address, President Trump pledged to “bring back free speech to America.” Yet now he has canceled Jimmy Kimmel and is presiding over "the most punishing government crackdown against major American media institutions in modern times." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/b...

In Sudan's Darfur region, the murderous RSF militia--backed by the UAE--seems in the process of taking over the major city of El Fasher. There's lots of concern that the result will be massacres and mass rape by the RSF. Unclear if the UAE will seriously try to restrain the RSF.

Given pressures on journalism, the @nytimes spends roughly 10 times as much as it did a decade ago to protect its journalists' safety, security and legal rights. A.G. Sulzberger makes that point in discussing threats to the press and democracy: www.nytco.com/press/ag-sul...

Our last farm tour and wine/cider tasting was heavily oversubscribed, so we're opening up Kristof Farms again on Sat., Sept. 20, at 1pm and 2:45pm. Nick and Sheryl will lead the tasting and tour. Book early at [email protected], saying which time and how many people.

Terrific piece by @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social about our very human tendency to be blind to the violence and extremism of our own side and outraged by the violence and extremism of the other side: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o... Self-awareness is the first step to overcoming this myopia.

An @nytimes investigation finds staggering levels of insider dealing: The Trump administration confers benefits on the UAE (despite security concerns) as the UAE confers riches on the Trump family. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

My conversation with @velshi.com about cutbacks in USAID: My conversation with Ali Velshi about the cuts in USAID: www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...

“One of the things that is most outrageous is the idea that DOGE and the Trump administration were eliminating or dramatically reducing humanitarian aid on the basis of efficiency and waste,” @nickkristof.bsky.social said in response to USAID cuts. “What they have created is waste and inefficiency.”

Terrific podcast discussion with @billmckibben.bsky.social and @ianbremmer.com about Bill's new book, "Here Comes the Sun." www.gzeromedia.com/podcast/gzer... Much recommended.

The paperback of my memoir, "Chasing Hope," is out today! Thanks to Bonnie Garmus for the quote on the paperback cover: "This is the kind of memoir that changes the world. Read it." Please do, and help make the paperback a best-seller, too! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/720814...

This is an excellent piece by @nickkristof.bsky.social “Environmental health is hard. It requires juggling trade-offs and making complex choices with insufficient knowledge.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

In my other life…

My take on Russia's drone incursion into Poland: Putin is testing NATO, Trump and the West, and they must respond in measured ways (I have some suggestions) rather than roll over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o...

Horrifying to hear that Charlie Kirk was shot while giving a speech in Utah. Hoping for a speedy recovery. Such violence is an attack not only on one man but on civil society and the political landscape. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Three thoughts on the Russian drone attack on Poland: 1. This was not a mistake. It was a test of NATO. 2. NATO has to figure out how to cheaply and effectively respond to drone attacks, e.g. with counter drones as Ukraine does. 3. The West needs to impose costs to deter Putin and end impunity.

The paperback of my memoir, "Chasing Hope," is out today! Thanks to Bonnie Garmus for the quote on the paperback cover: "This is the kind of memoir that changes the world. Read it." Please do, and help make the paperback a best-seller, too! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/720814...

Good to see the @nytimes starting a new family subscription, enabling the subscriber to share with family members or friends: www.nytimes.com/subscription... Times articles are meant for sharing!

Once rare, Parkinson's disease is now the world's fastest growing neurodegenerative disease, with a new case diagnosed every 6 minutes in the US. Why? I argue that it's lax regulation of toxic chemicals, from pesticides to those used in dry cleaning. Read: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

Thanks, Business Traveler Magazine, for this shout-out for our “acclaimed Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.” Our grape vines are blushing. You can order a case, delivered to your door in the U.S., at kristoffarms.com

Interesting piece by @mattyglesias.bsky.social about the gulf between politicians and the public on issues like immigration, and how this creates openings for right-wing demagogues. www.slowboring.com/p/a-boring-t...

The Trump administration"used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities.” --Judge Allison Burroughs in a ruling finding the administration illegally withheld money from @harvard.edu www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

For anyone looking for a new long-distance trail to hike, the Sea-Snake route in Oregon: blisterfree.wordpress.com/2025/06/09/i... Because there can never be too many trails.

A @nytimes.com investigation of the Israeli attack on Nasser Hospital, including the "double-tap" that killed journalists and rescue workers, is devastating for Israeli claims. www.nytimes.com/video/world/... I'm still wondering if the US supplied the weapons for this apparent war crime.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “There is bipartisan agreement in the United States that Sudan is suffering both genocide and famine — and also, apparently, a bipartisan consensus to do little about it,” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes.

As debate boils over allegations of genocide in Gaza, there’s another place where all sides in the United States seem to agree a genocide is underway — yet largely ignore it. That’s Sudan My column: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC, revealed that RFK Jr. has NEVER been briefed by CDC experts on measles, flu, or Covid: “No one from my center has ever briefed him on any of those topics…He’s getting his information from somewhere”

On the new acting CDC director. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

First there was clemency for insurrectionists. Now come full military honors.

The Pentagon is restoring a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee, which includes a slave guiding the Confederate general’s horse in the background, to the West Point library three years after a congressionally mandated commission ordered it removed, officials said. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...

In which ICE sides with an out of control forest fire yo help it burn more homes.

At a health center in Uganda yesterday I came across a line of moms who had walked three hours with their babies to get them vaccinated. They value vaccines, because they see kids dying without them. They understand modern science and medicine more clearly than our HHS secretary.

Worth reading the full resignation letter from the head of center for immunization. "I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health."

This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.

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A @Harvard researcher made a promising discovery about cancer that could improve treatment and save lives -- and then the Trump administration cut off funding. washingtonpost.com/education/20... I hope Americans understand the cost of Trump's campaign against science.

When the world's a mess and I want to beat my head against a wall, I instead find refuge in the 'cathedral of wilderness." Much recommended nature therapy: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/o... (that's Sheryl hiking in front of me in the Wallowas)

“The Pentagon has for months been blocking Ukraine’s use of long-range missiles to strike inside Russia, U.S. officials said, limiting Kyiv from employing a powerful weapon in its fight against Moscow’s invasion.” www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Our last tasting and farm tour before the harvest will be Sept. 7, at 2:45pm and 4:30pm. Sheryl and Nick lead the tours and conversation and share five wines and ciders. Always fun, and a chance to sample Pinot Noir grapes on the vine. Reserve by emailing [email protected]

At a time when so much is going wrong, Americans have one great treasure: our wilderness, left to us by past visionaries. Every summer I escape to go worship in this "cathedral of wilderness": www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/o... (that photo below is of Sheryl hiking ahead of me)

I see that Ghislaine Maxwell says that Jeffrey Epstein's pal Donald Trump always behaved as a "gentleman." Perhaps. But I'd note that in my experience prisoners always say nice things about those who have the capacity to grant the clemency.

The UN humanitarian coordinator, Tom Fletcher, is blunt about the Gaza Famine: "It is a famine that we could have prevented, if we had been allowed. Yet food stacks up at borders because of systematic obstruction by Israel. It is a famine within a few hundred metres of food, in a fertile land."

Joao Silva is a brilliant photographer, and he shows he's a brilliant writer as well as he returns to the Afghan village where during the war he lost both his legs to a landmine. A beautiful essay about the power of peace: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/w... Bravo, Joao!

Senator @amyklobuchar.com @klobuchar.senate.gov learned that a video clip of her was going viral. So she clicked on it and saw her face and her voice saying absurd and vulgar things she had never said. It was a deepfake. Here she calls for tougher policing of them: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...