Middle-east Arab News Opinion | Asharq Al-awsat

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A Syrian child receives treatment following a suspected toxic gas attack earlier this week.Credit Mohamed Al-Bakour/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Trump Was Right to Strike Syria

by Nicholas Kristof | Apr 11, 2017 | Opinion

President Trump’s air strikes against Syria were of dubious legality. They were hypocritical. They may have had political motivations. But most of all, they were right. I’m deeply suspicious of Trump’s policies and competence, but this is a case where he is right and...

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Children march during a rally against climate change in New York. (Reuters)

The Future of the Human Race

by Nicholas Kristof | Mar 22, 2017 | Opinion

Scientists say, an increasing proportion of sperm — now about 90 percent in a typical young man — are misshapen, sometimes with two heads or two tails. Even when properly shaped, today’s sperm are often pathetic swimmers, veering like drunks or paddling crazily in...

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Laredo International Airport in Texas, July 23, 2015. Credit Tamir Kalifa for The New York Times

Lessons From the Media’s Failures in its Year With Trump

by Nicholas Kristof | Jan 7, 2017 | Opinion

The last year has not been the news media’s finest. Despite some outstanding coverage, over all we misled many people into thinking that Donald Trump would never win the Republican nomination, let alone the White House. Too often we followed what glittered, yapped...

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Donald Trump on the left and Hillary Clinton to the right. Reuters

Clinton’s Fibs vs. Trump’s Huge Lies

by Nicholas Kristof | Aug 11, 2016 | Opinion

One persistent narrative in American politics is that Hillary Clinton is a slippery, compulsive liar while Donald Trump is a gutsy truth-teller. Over all, the latest CBS News poll finds the public similarly repulsed by each candidate: 34 percent of registered voters...