Nicholas Kristof

New York Times

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Nicholas Kristof is a columnist for the New York Times and a Pulitzer Prize-winner.

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New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof on the cognitive bias towards bad news and why, despite war and a pandemic, the world is “way better off than we tend to think it is.”

Nicholas Kristof: The world is better off than we think

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof on the cognitive bias towards bad news and why, despite war and a pandemic, the world is “way better off than we tend to think it is.”

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