Where is the voice of authority to challenge Donald Trump on his morals?
Cardinal Timothy Dolan enabled the Republican presidential candidate to cast himself as a saintly martyr saved by God
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Lies piled on lies, darkness swallowing darkness. JD Vance’s chilling debate performance
Donald Trump’s running mate seemed like a replicant - there was no sign of the smarmy troll who said Kamala Harris can ‘go to hell’
It’s going to be a very ugly slugfest between the Unserious Man and the Untested Woman
Trump is jealous of Kamala Harris’s looks, her crowd sizes, her star power and her vivacious, bodacious vibes. That’s a good start
Maureen Dowd: JD Vance’s draconian views on women almost make Trump look enlightened
Vice-presidential nominee doubles down on ‘traditional marriages’ and ‘childless cat ladies’
Maureen Dowd: Verdict is in on the US supreme court – it’s corrupt and rotten
US supreme court now in the hands of a cabal of religious and far-right zealots
The truth hurts for Donald Trump, especially when Bill Maher dishes it out
The US needs jesters to hold up a mirror to society, now more than ever
Donald Trump’s New York trial tells us much about moral values of would-be next president
Stormy Daniels was working blue, and the judge was seeing red
Maureen Dowd: OJ Simpson and the Monster Jealousy
He escaped in criminal trial but not in his civil trial, though he never paid penalty or expressed any penance
The bloody-minded Trump luxuriates in the language of tyrants
Trump’s raw power grab after his 2020 loss may have failed, but he’s inflaming his base with language straight out of Macbeth’s trip to hell
Maureen Dowd: My Joe Biden fantasy
‘You think I’m forgetful? Take a look at the other guy’ says US president in dream State of the Union address
Sex and the presidential candidates: Trump the playboy, Biden the frisky husband
Biden has joked to aides that ‘good sex’ is the key to a lasting and happy marriage, much to his wife’s chagrin
Maureen Dowd: The ogre gorging on America
Haley did not say what needed to be said: Trump should not be president because he tried to overthrow the government
If Trump wins in Iowa, it will be about tearing down faith in humanity. A blizzard is fitting
With a snow day I had time to contemplate the real mystery of Iowa: What has happened to the United States?
Maureen Dowd: Magical Jimmy Buffett packed a thousand lifetimes into one
In one sense at least, the charismatic Jimmy Buffett was a model for how to live: Build your life around what you love
Maureen Dowd: Catch the smug mug on that thug
Trump is feral and cunning and must have shivered as he had his mugshot taken in Fulton County jail, thinking: ‘Damn, I could go to prison’
Maureen Dowd: The Rudy Giuliani ‘dime-store psychodrama’ plays on
How an opera-loving federal prosecutor and heroic mayor spiralled into lawlessness, multiple divorces, depression, drinking, money problems and more
Maureen Dowd: The secret papers spilling out of state boxes are a snapshot of Trump’s id
The guy likes paper. And, like Louis XIV, he believes ‘L’État, c’est moi’
Maureen Dowd: Working from home has sounded the death knell of the bustling newsroom
Mythologised mayhem and eccentricity of newspaper offices have been killed by journalists preferring to work from home
Maureen Dowd: New York’s fire commissioner is treading treacherous ground, with fault lines of class, sex and age
Laura Kavanagh, the city’s first woman fire commissioner, faced a mutiny by several male staff just months into her administration
Mel Brooks: I’ve tried to get even with Hitler by taking the Mickey out of him
In his new TV show, History of the World, Part II, you can still find all of Brooks’s signature comedy stylings: penis jokes, puke jokes and Hitler jokes
Maureen Dowd: Carter’s exemplary life a rebuke to Maga America
Former president has always been a positive force for peace and co-operation both at home and abroad
Maureen Dowd: ChatGPT opens a Pandora’s box of existential fears
Creative spark requires humanity. But soon, AI could be sentient. Then we’ll need our dog bowls
Maureen Dowd: Fire-starter Trump more culprit than victim
Trump is the first ex-president investigated as to whether he masterminded a coup attempt
Maureen Dowd: Zelenskiy, Hamlet and an irrational, soulless fiend
Ukrainian leader and people confront US with existential issue of where to draw line
Maureen Dowd: The US supreme court versus reality
‘Consider the things the court brought down on us by pre-emptively purloining victory for George W Bush’
Maureen Dowd: Manning up, letting us down
Tragedy of 9/11 was followed by blunders from men seized by hyper-masculinity
Maureen Dowd: Why do Republicans hate cops?
GOP overwhelmingly stuck with Trump, perpetuating his sick mythology about Capitol riots
Maureen Dowd: ‘The Obama West Wing treated Biden quite shabbily’
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist on why Biden can succeed where Obama did not
Maureen Dowd: Joe Biden is ‘crazy about the Irish and plans to celebrate them every way he can’
The New York Times columnist was speaking at the Irish Times Summer Nights festival
‘If I was minister for housing’ ... David McWilliams’s plan for €220k homes
A site-value tax and co-operative building are among the economist’s housing crisis solutions
The Irish Times Summer Nights festival: Everything you need to know
Chris O’Dowd, Maureen Dowd and Mary Lou McDonald among guests for online series
Maureen Dowd, a Pulitzer-winning Beltway socialite with a caustic eye
Grande Dame of DC Dowd to give insight to Biden’s America and the politics-obsessed town
Irish Times Summer Nights festival: Final details revealed
Chris O’Dowd and Mary Lou McDonald among those appearing at this year’s event
Ewan McGregor: I’ve been sober a long time. Addiction is part of my life
The actor has drawn on his experience of addiction to portray the fashion designer Halston
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