Nicholas Kristof | The New York Observer

Aunt Mabel Suggests...

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:37:55 -0400

Ever notice that the NYTimes.com most-emailed list is slanted toward an older demographic? Maybe because only folks over a certain age—like our Aunt Mabel—still use the email tool. Here's a quick, annotated guide to what grandma and grandpa thought you might be interested in from NYTimes.com ...

1. No matter how many young adult novelists are up-in-arms over this story, Kristof knows how to phone in summer copy and it makes Auntie Mabel very happy.

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Aunt Mabel Suggests...

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:59:59 -0400

1. Times editors are proud of Aunt Mabel today. Investigative journalism takes the top spot in an exhaustive look into how a Philadelphia Veterans Hopsital botched treatments for...

Sullivan's Travels: Novelist Courtney Has Come a Long Way, Baby

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:47:21 -0400

Literati packed into Gail Collins’s shabby-chic Morningside Heights apartment on the evening on Wednesday, June 17 to celebrate the launch of J. Courtney Sullivan’s debut novel, Commencement, set largely at the author's alma mater, Smith College. Ms. Sullivan, who previously penned Dating Up: Dump the Schlump and Find A Quality Man, was the center of attention, teetering around in silver stilettos and a tight blue bosom-revealing dress. “This is the kind...

Aunt Mabel Suggests....

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:49:44 -0400

Ever noticed that the NYT most emailed list is slanted toward, well, an older demographic? Maybe because only folks over a certain age—like our Aunt Mabel—still use the email tool! Here's a quick, annotated guide to what grandma and grandpa read in the paper (and sent to you!) over the weekend. We read it so you don't have to!

1. Rich is king this Sunday and is the only top 10 writer to directly
address Obama

Can Games Save the News?

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:00:12 -0400

News junkies are gamers.

Ask your friends a question about the latest news tidbit—say, where President Obama and the First Lady went on their dinner date this weekend. Then watch them whip out their iPhones, flip open their laptops, racing to find the right answer. Within seconds, they’ll emerge from the scrolling sea of Google results, triumphant and shouting: “Blue Hill!”

Our constant (okay, seemingly neverending) search...

New York Times' Nicholas Kristof Gets Into Gaming

Thu, 28 May 2009 16:58:17 -0400

This morning, on May 28, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof challenged a room full of gamers.

"I’m slightly intimidated by being here as the one who knows the least about games," he said, standing on a stage at the New School’s Tisch Auditorium on West 12th Street in a brown blazer. He was standing in front of a laptop freckled with stickers as about 400 humanitarians, journalists, academics, and game designers who...

Nicholas Kristof Is Sorry

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:29:24 -0400

In his column today, The New York Times Op-Ed columnist offers a corrective to his 2002 columns implying that Dr. Steven J. Hatfill (whom Mr. Kristof sometimes referred to as "Mr. Z" in his columns) was connected to the still-unsolved anthrax attacks media and government figures following the 9/11.

In his Public Editor column on August 16th, Clark Hoyt wrote that Mr. Kristof "plans to write a column looking back on the case...

Kristof Does Kafka: Times Columnist's Very Own Trial in Beijing

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:38:47 -0400

Is Nicholas Kristof the new Michael Moore? This week, The New York Times columnist wrote about his attempt to obtain a permit to protest at the Olympics in Beijing and, at times, his stunt feels like a remake of Roger & Me, minus Mr. Moore's trucker hat and blue collar crusading.

Here's how Mr. Kristoff sets the scene:

Following government instructions, I showed up at an office of the Beijing Public Security Bureau, found...

Kristof Does Not Have to Reveal FBI Sources; [em]Times[/em] Not Fined, Trial Date Set

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:32:52 -0500

This morning, Judge Liam O'Grady ruled that New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof will not be forced to disclose his two FBI sources in a case brought against him by former Army scientist Steven Hatfill. However, by withholding the sources, sanctions were imposed against the newspaper. Last month, the Times was ordered to reveal Mr. Kristof's confidential sources that provided information for several columns written about the 2001 anthrax mailings. The Justice Department named Mr....

Kristof: I Was on Subpoena List

Wed, 12 Oct 2005 12:54:00 -0400

New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas D. Kristof--the first journalist to have written about former ambassador Joseph Wilson's now-famous fact-finding trip to Niger--was originally on prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald's subpoena list in 2003, but was never subpoenaed. In a phone conversation this afternoon, Kristof said he had been on the list. He also said that he had never heard from Bush administration officials about his columns, and had never discussed the subject with Times reporter...

Liberals Fight Back; Pundits Are Shocked

Sun, 23 Nov 2003 19:00:00 -0500

The alarming rise in liberal aggression is now the subject of regular bulletins from pundits of varying persuasions and temperaments. As certain disquieting elements converge, portents of doom can no longer be ignored: The same progressives who once fit the wimp stereotype are answering back when attacked. The same Democrats who could find no voice last year are bellowing now. The most outspoken challenger to George W. Bush is leading in key primary states....

Jews in Bush's Cabinet? Don't Hold Your Breath

Sun, 21 Jan 2001 19:00:00 -0500

George Bush has put every kind of American in his cabinet

except Jews, and no one has complained about this, even though everyone knows it's nuts. Remaking the American power structure without Jews is like remaking sports without blacks. At least when it comes to blacks in sports, you can talk about it; you can say that blacks changed sports. But no one is allowed to speak up about something we all quietly know: Jews changed America. There is...