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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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Nicholas Kristof
stated on October 3, 2015 in a New York Times op-ed:

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

By Jon Greenberg • October 6, 2015
Nicholas Kristof
stated on August 27, 2015 in 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."

By Louis Jacobson • August 27, 2015
Nicholas Kristof
stated on December 4, 2014 in 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."

By Jon Greenberg • December 17, 2014
Nicholas Kristof
stated on December 4, 2014 in a broadcast of the "Daily Show":

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

By Jon Greenberg • December 11, 2014
Nicholas Kristof
stated on October 22, 2014 in 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."

By Jon Greenberg • October 30, 2014

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