2025-03-19
11 分钟This is the Opinions, a show that brings you a mix of voices from New York Times opinion.
You've heard the news.
Here's what to make of it.
I'm Nicholas Kristof.
I'm an opinion columnist for the New York Times.
I've been covering the world since the 1980s,
and I spend a lot of my time reporting in poor countries and.
And I've seen both children dying unnecessarily and also the difference that American aid can make.
One of the things that I'm proudest of as an American is what we did on HIV, AIDS.
And, you know, in the early 2000s, Southern Africa was just devastated.
I would come across households of orphan kids living alone
because all their parents had died and their caregivers had died.
And then President George W. Bush started PEPFAR, which was his big AIDS program.
It saved 26 million lives so far.
And I knew it was working when on one trip,
the coffin makers in Malawi told me
that their business was collapsing because people weren't dying anymore.
And I just felt so good about what we as taxpayers were able to do.
But that era of American moral leadership, I fear, is now over.
President Trump and Elon Musk are two of the world's richest men,