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

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"More preschoolers are shot dead each year than police officers are in the line of duty."

— PunditFact on Tuesday, October 6th, 2015

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Claim still holds up

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"More Americans have died from guns in the United States since 1968 than on battlefields of all the wars in American history."

— PunditFact on Thursday, August 27th, 2015

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There's no data to back this up

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The wealth gap between blacks and whites in the United States is "greater than the black-white wealth gap was in apartheid South Africa."

— PunditFact on Wednesday, December 17th, 2014

True

We seem to have a thing for prisons

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"The United States right now incarcerates more African-Americans as a percentage than apartheid South Africa did."

— PunditFact on Thursday, December 11th, 2014

Mostly True

It takes a lot of A/C to keep fans cool

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"All of Liberia can produce less than one-third as much electricity as the Dallas Cowboys football stadium consumes at peak times."

— PunditFact on Thursday, October 30th, 2014

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