Nicholas Kristof has 'no regrets' about his failed bid for Oregon governor.
, and the veteran journalist declined my request, saying he was “trying to do more listening than talking.” Now, one failed bid for Oregon governor later, he’s ready to talk.announced he’d be returning as a columnist, a role the 63-year-old journalist had held at the Gray Lady for the past two decades. Before that, he was a foreign correspondent.
When Kristof was ousted from the governor’s race, some people in Oregon suggested he run for the sixth congressional district, which was an open seat encompassing Yamhill County—which encompasses his hometown, whose struggles, Kristof said, were one reason he went into politics—and doesn’t have a residency requirement. But “I’m not sure how I could make more of a difference in those areas than I could in journalism,” Kristof said.
Now, Kristof claims he’s out of politics. “I have zero plans to run for something, but partly that’s because I do have this other incredible platform, which is a tool to help make a difference.” But just last year, he saw this platform at theas insufficient.
Kristof declined to get into the mechanics of how, exactly, this homecoming came to be . The move back to his
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