The senior vice president of our rodent control team at @KristofFarms makes an appearance on our wildlife camera.

Announcing my win-a-trip 2026 contest, to choose a university student to travel with me on a reporting trip and have the chance to write for @nytopinion.nytimes.com. Information about applying at nytimes.com/winatrip .

NEW: Rubio and Miller drove the US to a militarized clash with Venezuela and Maduro. They started with deportations to CECOT. Then talks with Trump on oil and drugs led to boat strikes. Officials have discussed using Delta Force in "Phase Two." Gift link to our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...

This is my annual column in which I try to cheer people up and offer perspective and reassurance--in this case that in the long history of humanity, 2025 was arguably one of the 10 best years: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/o... It also includes announcement of my 2026 win-a-trip contest.

Sad to see Oregon may slash funding for FFA. It's one of the great youth programs, particularly in rural areas where other programs aren't always available. FFA was central to my high school experience: contests, travel, conventions and local, district and state office. www.opb.org/article/2025...

Today from @nickkristof.bsky.social: – US getting closer to UAE as UAE backs RSF forces. Trump+family have started many new biz ventures with UAE – RSF targeting Black Africans with its mass murder/rape – "No one, from world leaders to the UN sec gen ... has made (Darfur) a sufficient focus."

Tis the season when we repeat "peace on earth" -- even as a massacre has been unfolding in El Fasher, Sudan, apparently claiming tens of thousands of lives. It may have slaughtered as many people in seven weeks as the Gaza war did in two years. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...

Heartbreaking story about women and girls raped in Eastern Congo who can no longer get medication to prevent HIV transmission, because of Trump administration's USAID cuts: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1... Careless men in DC make decisions, and Congolese girls suffer.

Just in case you don't have enough things to worry about...it turns out "toilet rats" are real. These are rats that sneak into the sewage system and emerge in your toilet bowl -- hopefully not when you're sitting on the toilet. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...

Gaza of course dominates coverage of Israel/Palestine. But as this excellent @nytimes.com piece reports, extremist Israeli settlers backed by the Israeli government and the IDF are systematically stealing Palestinian land and brutalizing Palestinian farmers: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

What would surprise Jesus about Christmas 2025? How is it that the politicians who wave Bibles are the same ones eager to cut Medicaid and deport children? My conversation with Professor Bart Ehrman about the true message of Jesus: to help ALL in need. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/o...

President Trump's words about Rob Reiner were vile, but there's a larger issue at stake. My column: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...

Kristof: 700,000 lives lost because Trump White House treated aid as a game youtu.be/5pwRhqioW7c

This summer, Brett Murphy, @peterdicampo.bsky.social and I went to South Sudan, where the U.S. had been supporting the response to a historic cholera outbreak in the world’s poorest country before pulling the plug. We found shuttered clinics and dead bodies. www.propublica.org/article/usai...

In the three weeks since I published my 2025 @kristofimpact.bsky.social holiday giving guide, readers have stepped up and with matches from @bloombergdotorg.bsky.social and others we've raised more than $24 million for three exceptional nonprofits. Join in! kristofimpact.org Thanks to all!

A few days ago, we announced that in response to the FIFA Peace Prize that was awarded to President Trump, we'd be inaugurating the Kristof Farms Peace Prize. So this certificate is yours with an order of a half case or more from kristoffarms.com!

Thoughtful piece by my @nytopinion.nytimes.com colleague Ross Douthat about how the Trump administration's interest in Christianity is largely decorative--like Pete Hegseth's tattoo of a cross--rather than substantive or concerned with morality. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/o...

The Supreme Court Is Failing at Its Most Important Job by The Editorial Board of the N.Y.Times www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/o...

My bet is that Trump's tariffs -- a tax on American consumers -- increasingly will raise prices in the coming months and that economic failing, coupled with Trump's increasingly erratic behavior, will fuel increasing discontent.

Big thanks to readers! I'm thrilled to report that in the two weeks since I published my @kristofimpact holiday giving guide with three outstanding nonprofits, we've raised more than $20 million for them. Join in! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...

Our kids were little, and we lived in Malaysia, when current HepB vax approved in 1986. Our doctor in KL told us how great it was for our kids to get this protection so early in life. I got my shot too. Deb was then very sick w HepA, from trip through China. Got her shot later This ruling is evil

On Giving Tuesday, I have a suggestion: Check out my holiday giving guide recommending 3 superb nonprofits -- two overseas and one in the US. They do heroic work, and @bloombergdotorg.bsky.social is matching donations, so your donations get more bang for the buck. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...

"Under the law of armed conflict, a wounded person clinging to debris is... protected under the Geneva Conventions. Deliberately targeting such a person is not a tactical decision. It is a potential war crime." @markhertling.bsky.social on Hegseth and the problem of moral corrosion in the military.

Education struggles in the US, yet both parties put it on the back burner. An @nytopinion.nytimes.com editorial discusses this and offers a way for readers to step up, through the @nytimes.com communities fund to support 7 outstanding nonprofits. I'll be donating: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/o...

AC-130 gunships lasing targets. Griffin missiles captured fractions of a second before impact. RQ-4 Global Hawk drones filming it all. Seeing beyond the redactions in the Pentagon’s attack videos w/ @docubrent @carolrosenberg @cjchivers www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Huge thanks to readers for record donations to my charity giving guide. We've already raised more than $10 million for the 3 great nonprofits I recommend, with 2.85 times as many donors as same period last year. With multiple matches, each $1 sends $4 to the nonprofit. So join in: KristofImpact.org

Oregon's attorney general and DA's warn that they will investigate and prosecute ICE agents if they continue to use excessive force: oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/11/25/o...

My conversation on @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social about Elon Musk's destruction of USAID -- Trump's most lethal policy -- and what each of us can do to push back at the darkness: www.ms.now/the-last-wor... @kristofimpact.bsky.social

Trump's press secretary Karoline Leavitt now has a personal connection to the ICE raids. Her nephew's mother has been detained. www.thedailybeast.com/karoline-lea...

Hey ELON AND ALL YOU OTHER BILLIONAIRES …. Do something kind !!!!

Here's what the Supreme Court justices are reading right now, shaking their heads in astonishment: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

Bravo.An excellent essay by Governor @andybeshearky.bsky.social arguing that Democrats can win disgruntled rural voters but must focus on daily issues, talk about faith or purpose, and speak like normal human beings (e.g. "hunger" rather than "food insecurity." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

One of the most odious episodes of the first Trump administration was family separation, ripping kids from migrant parents (and in some cases losing them). Now family separation is back, @propublica reports: www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Huge thanks to my readers: On the first day of my annual holiday giving guide this year, readers donated 2.6 times as much as last year (probably because of matches, which mean that $1 donated becomes $4 to the nonprofit). Join in: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...

The world's worst humanitarian crisis is in Sudan, so huge thanks to @chefjoseandres.bsky.social and the Longer Tables Fund for donating $1 million to match reader donations to ease this crisis. Donations are matched again by @BloombergDotOrg, so $1 donated yields $4 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...

Thank you @nickkristof.bsky.social for including Vision to Learn in your Giving Guide. They do such important work for kids. Im giving today and encourage everyone to do the same. bsky.app/profile/nick...

My best Holiday Giving Guide yet, highlighting three superb nonprofits saving and transforming lives abroad and at home. And because of matches from @bloombergdotorg.bsky.social & others, each $1 from you means $4 reaches the nonprofits. Join in! Spread the word. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...

This (of Connie this morning) is why we say that Kristof Farms is The Most Beautiful Farm in The World! Come visit. We'll hold wine/cider tastings and a tour of the vineyard led by Nick and Sheryl on the Friday after Thanksgiving, 1pm and 2:45. Reserve by emailing [email protected]

ICE in 2025 reminds me of secret police thugs in some dictatorships I've reported in. Take this incident in Rhode Island in which ICE misidentified a target at a courthouse and threatened to smash the windows of a judge's car when she intervened. www.wpri.com/news/local-n...

This is an extraordinary thread. Please read every word.

!!!President Trump's Coast Guard has declared that the swastika will no longer be classified as a hate symbol!!! (And these are the folks investigating universities for antisemitism....) www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Dawn today on The Most Beautiful Farm in the World! We're opening it up to visitors on the Friday after Thanksgiving, with wine/cider tastings and tours for groups at 1pm and at 2:45. Nick and Sheryl will lead the tastings and tours along with their kids. Book by emailing [email protected] .

Man, CBS must feel really stupid right now! Just kidding, CBS wasn't settling a lawsuit. They were paying a bribe and they knew it.

Eleventh Circuit throws out Trump's suit against CNN in a per curiam unpublished ruling. Meaning Trump's arguments were totally meritless, not even worthy of a published opinion. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

We're having wine/cider tastings here on @KristofFarms on Friday, day after Thanksgiving, at 1pm and 2:45 pm. Nick, Sheryl and their kids will lead the tasting and farm tour. Must book a place in advance, by email at [email protected] . Great way to celebrate the holiday!

President Trump speaks of making America great again, but my column argues that instead he is systematically undermining the three key ingredients to the formula that over the last 150 years made the US the world's leading economy: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...

America rose to preeminence because of three pillars that President Trump is now systematically undermining. We're so consumed by the daily outrages that I'm not sure we focus enough on the risk that Trump's long-term legacy will be a substantially diminished USA. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...

A sale for Thanksgiving! Until midnight tonight Pacific time, free shipping for club members and half off shipping for others on all orders of a case or half case of our Pinot Noir wine or our Noir cider. Either is a perfect accompaniment for Thanksgiving, delivered anywhere. KristofFarms.com

“If Trump wants to save the lives of Nigerian Christians… all Trump has to do is restore the American aid that was estimated to be saving the lives of more than a quarter-million Nigerians each year.” Bang-on (as usual) from @nickkristof.bsky.social

President Trump threatens a military attack on Nigeria because of jihadi attacks on Christians — which are indeed a real problem. But Trump’s aid cuts are killing far, far more Nigerian Christians than jihadis are. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...