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Many struggling Americans now find their difficulties compounded by President Trump's cuts in food stamps and health care. On a 1,000 mile road trip, I met people like Trinity Goodman, who survives by selling blood plasma, has $3.78 in her bank account. A gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/o...

Opinion | Meet the Americans Who Can’t Afford Hair Cuts or Toilet Paper (Gift Article)Millions of Americans struggle in sometimes unimaginable ways, and Trump’s cuts in food stamps and other benefits are now making life even more precarious.www.nytimes.com

Head Start is the leading anti-poverty program for young children, and for decades it has had bipartisan support. It's a lifeline--and now President Trump, having failed to defund it, is trying to gut it another way.

Kanisha Hamilton was trafficked at 12 and endured years of rapes, so when she hears about Jeffrey Epstein, "it triggers me," she told me. That's because there's so much outrage at Epstein but so little serious effort to help actual victims. A gift link to my column: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

Opinion | What Our Epstein Outrage Has Obscured (Gift Article)It’s easy to shake our fists at a monster. It would be more effective to actually help exploited girls.www.nytimes.com

GTS a @nytimes.com travel piece about the glories of the Oregon coast (even if my own family's haunts on the coast are a little further south, near Lincoln City): www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

36 Hours on the Oregon CoastPensive but pretty, the state’s northernmost reaches promise fresh seafood, local art and plenty of outdoorsy diversions.www.nytimes.com

"It's perfect," President Trump said of his Iran war on April 16. But in fact it's a quagmire and now he seems to escalating on a path to a fiery nowhere. I look at what may lie ahead, including the risk that both Iran and Saudi Arabia get nuclear weapons: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/o...

Opinion | The Dead End to Trump’s ‘Perfect’ War (Gift Article)Worst of all, the result may be that both Iran and Saudi Arabia end up with nuclear weapons.www.nytimes.com

What a great game! ¡Felicidades, España!

Meet our bears, from our wildlife cameras.

How cool that soccer greats Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal met when the latter was 5 months old. Messi was a young Unicef ambassador and Yamal was, er, having a bath. Now Yamal is also a Unicef ambassador. Two soccer giants helping the world's kids!

Every year I choose a university student to travel with me to cover neglected issues. Usually we go abroad, but this year I’m on a road trip from Oklahoma to Kentucky with my winner, @brunella.bsky.social, who has a brilliant career ahead of her as a journalist. Here we’re in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

"We should have the fortitude to speak up about human rights outrages whether the responsible party is Russia, China, Israel, America or the Emirates; if you care about human rights in only some places, you don’t actually care about human rights." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/o... Thoughts?

Opinion | In Sudan, a Preventable Atrocity (Gift Article)Hundreds of thousands of people in Sudan are bracing for their city to be overrun by a militia notorious for committing atrocities.www.nytimes.com

This seems a time when we need a dollop of hope about America and its future. Here's mine: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/o...

Opinion | Can the United States Hold On?www.nytimes.com

Quiz question: In the year 1000, what was the leading city in the world (with a population of 1 million, compared to 15,000 then for London)? I answer the question in reflecting on America's prospects for the next 250 years. And here's my reason for hope: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/o...

Opinion | My Battered Hope for Americawww.nytimes.com

In Ashland, Ore., for our annual pilgrimage with family and friends to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. This year's tour de force is "Raisin in the Sun"--a brilliant production. Unforgettable! Also superb: Midsummer Night's Dream and Come from Away. osfashland.org

As the US marks its 250th with misgivings, how about if we seek inspiration from the Nordic model? I traveled to Scandinavia to understand how these countries achieve prosperity, equality -- while becoming the happiest places on Earth. Much to learn from. A gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/o...

Elon Musk says that no one died because of his demolition of USAID, and that "Kristof is lying through his teeth." So here I invite him to join me on a visit to Africa to see for himself: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...

Opinion | U.S.A.I.D. Cuts Killed People. That’s the Truth.www.nytimes.com

Here's a chance to visit The Most Beautiful Farm in the World!

.@mluckovich.bsky.social always makes me laugh

The Iran war ended, as Trump had predicted in March, with a surrender. Unfortunately, it was a US surrender. But too many people seem to be learning the wrong lesson. The problem was not getting out of the war, but getting in. A gift link to my column: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...

Opinion | Trump Was Right. The War Ended With a Surrender.www.nytimes.com

We've prepared our final report on 2025 holiday giving guide and @kristofimpact.bsky.social prize: With 25,000 donors, we raised $51 million for 3 great nonprofits: Mutual Aid Sudan, @helenkellerintl.org and @visiontolearn.bsky.social. This will touch 12 million people. Thanks for your generosity!

For more than half a century, Title X has been a bipartisan program to help women and men get contraception and reproductive health care, reducing unintended pregnancies and making America healthier. Now the Trump administration is gutting it.