Maureen Dowd

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

Sun Oct 20 2024 - 05:00

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’

Sun Oct 06 2024 - 06:00

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

Sun Aug 25 2024 - 12:00

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’

Sun Jul 28 2024 - 09:15

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

Sun Jun 09 2024 - 14:49

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

Sun May 19 2024 - 16:20

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

Sun May 12 2024 - 15:03

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

Sun Apr 14 2024 - 12:20

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

Sun Apr 07 2024 - 11:00

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

Sun Mar 03 2024 - 10:47

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

Sun Feb 25 2024 - 19:30

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

Sun Jan 28 2024 - 19:00

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?

Sun Jan 14 2024 - 12:48

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

Sun Sept 10 2023 - 14:57

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’

Sun Aug 27 2023 - 15:00

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

Sun Aug 20 2023 - 18:01

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’

Sun Jun 18 2023 - 16:04

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

Sun Apr 30 2023 - 17:00

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

Sun Apr 09 2023 - 17:47

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

Mon Mar 13 2023 - 16:52

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

Sun Feb 26 2023 - 19:00

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

Sun Jan 29 2023 - 15:53

Maureen Dowd: Fire-starter Trump more culprit than victim

Trump is the first ex-president investigated as to whether he masterminded a coup attempt

Sun Nov 20 2022 - 15:17

Maureen Dowd: Zelenskiy, Hamlet and an irrational, soulless fiend

Ukrainian leader and people confront US with existential issue of where to draw line

Mon Mar 14 2022 - 01:00

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’

Sun Oct 10 2021 - 18:29

Maureen Dowd: Manning up, letting us down

Tragedy of 9/11 was followed by blunders from men seized by hyper-masculinity

Sun Sept 12 2021 - 14:58

Maureen Dowd: Why do Republicans hate cops?

GOP overwhelmingly stuck with Trump, perpetuating his sick mythology about Capitol riots

Sun Aug 01 2021 - 15:18

Maureen Dowd: ‘The Obama West Wing treated Biden quite shabbily’

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist on why Biden can succeed where Obama did not

Sat Jul 03 2021 - 06:00

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

Wed Jun 30 2021 - 22:37

‘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

Mon Jun 28 2021 - 23:23

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

Fri Jun 25 2021 - 12:27

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

Sat Jun 19 2021 - 06:00

Irish Times Summer Nights festival: Final details revealed

Chris O’Dowd and Mary Lou McDonald among those appearing at this year’s event