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Nicholas Kristof

Nicholas Kristof

Nicholas Kristof is a columnist for the New York Times who frequently writes about international development issues.

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Nicholas Kristof
Nicholas Kristof
stated on October 3, 2015 a New York Times op-ed:
"More preschoolers are shot dead each year than police officers are in the line of duty."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • October 6, 2015
Nicholas Kristof
Nicholas Kristof
stated on August 27, 2015 his column in the New York Times:
"More Americans have died from guns in the United States since 1968 than on battlefields of all the wars in American history."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 27, 2015
Nicholas Kristof
Nicholas Kristof
stated on December 4, 2014 a broadcast of "The Daily Show":
The wealth gap between blacks and whites in the United States is "greater than the black-white wealth gap was in apartheid South Africa."
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By Jon Greenberg • December 17, 2014
Nicholas Kristof
Nicholas Kristof
stated on December 4, 2014 a broadcast of the "Daily Show":
"The United States right now incarcerates more African-Americans as a percentage than apartheid South Africa did."  
True
By Jon Greenberg • December 11, 2014
Nicholas Kristof
Nicholas Kristof
stated on October 22, 2014 an op-ed in the "New York Times":
"All of Liberia can produce less than one-third as much electricity as the Dallas Cowboys football stadium consumes at peak times."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • October 30, 2014
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