Maureen Dowd

It's unnerving covering a president who is treated like a boy king, requiring minders; who is easily swayed because he is underinformed; who can sit still only long enough for short oral briefings; who swaggers and mocks to mask his insecurities; who tries to replace real news with faux; and who can't seem ...

Or at least the week he became the president we were always expecting. He ceased bothering to pretend that he was ever going to do the job in any normal sense of the word. He decided to totally own the whole, entire joke that he is. He started hiring people right off TV. He extended his tiny fingers into his ...

Or at least the week he became the president we were always expecting. He ceased bothering to pretend that he was ever going to do the job in any normal sense of the word. He decided to totally own the whole, entire joke that he is. He started hiring people right off TV. He extended his tiny fingers into his ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Maureen Dowd, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary and author of two New York Times best sellers, has been a New York Times Op-Ed columnist since 1995. She is also a writer for The Times Magazine.

Arthur Gelb, the human pinball machine who served for decades as The New York Times culture czar, had many fantastic stories. But my favorite was his attempt to assign our music critic a feature on Wanda Horowitz. Arthur had met her at a dinner party one night and was intrigued by what life must be like ...

Maureen Dowd: Like the Alma character in “Phantom Thread,” you sometimes have to put poisonous mushroom shavings in your husband's eggs to settle him down. Rebecca Miller: I don't relate to that, quite. Like your character Greta in “Personal Velocity,” you're rotten with ambition. I am a little bit led by ...

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd spoke for so much of the liberal establishment when she lionized Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in the Iraq war. “The moral authority of parents who bury children killed in Iraq is absolute,” Dowd insisted. NBC News turned Sheehan into a national ...

During his campaign, Donald Trump often bragged about his skill as a negotiator. In conversations, he ventured that, as president, he might be able to resolve two of the most thorny and tragic dilemmas: finding peace in the Mideast and reaching a sensible compromise on guns. He said he would hop in his ...

Donald Trump slipped into the Oval Office through a wormhole of confusion about the American identity. We weren't winning wars anymore. They just went on and on and on, with inexplicable and deceptive aims and so many lives and limbs and trillions lost. We couldn't believe in our institutions, with ...

The thrill of victory and the agony of getting out of bed. Welcome to the weekend. The Olympics have kicked off in grand style. Whether you are an ace skier or would rather watch marathons of the Netflix kind, we like you just the same. Here are some amazing stories you may have missed this week. They're ...

Mr. Tarantino said he and Maureen Dowd, the author of the Times piece, had not connected for an interview, telling Deadline, “Me and Dowd never hooked up.” Ms. Dowd said on Tuesday that she had reached out to Mr. Tarantino six times, twice through his agent, twice through his personal assistant and ...

Thurman has now told her story — some of it, at any rate — to op-ed columnist Maureen Dowd at the New York Times. But while it sheds some light on Thurman's experiences with Weinstein and director Quentin Tarantino, Dowd's treatment of the story has inspired both confusion and criticism. Though ...

So Tim Robbins and Donald Trump walk into a bar. Not together. They just happened to be in the same Greenwich Village club one night in the mid-1990s. But given the fact that fame is an irresistible magnet for Mr. Trump, the two men naturally ended up in a picture. “I was throwing a private party for a ...

Maureen Dowd: Donald Trump reminds you of your late pal Don Rickles. Tim Robbins: Not at all. Don was funny. And even though he had that kind of punk persona of the bad boy, he was a kind man. He was a good man. People often mistake you for Tony Robbins. No. Deny. But in October, when I went to ...

The Roll-Up features Leafly editors Bruce Barcott, Ben Adlin, and Dave Schmader in a Friday morning roundtable about the week's top cannabis news. Leafly Podcast. The Roll-Up. Episode 19: Canada Has Its Maureen Dowd Moment ...

It's unnerving covering a president who is treated like a boy king, requiring minders; who is easily swayed because he is underinformed; who can sit still long enough only for short oral briefings; who swaggers and mocks to mask his insecurities; who tries to replace real news with faux; and who can't seem ...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Barry Diller knows your weaknesses. He knows how to intimidate you, if he wants to, or charm you, if he chooses. Because he is a taskmaster and a visionary and a billionaire, people in Hollywood and Silicon Valley pay close attention when he speaks. He has so many vests from ...

Maybe President Trump, a determined critic of the Iraq war, is so bewitched by John Bolton's mustache that he's missed Mr. Bolton's undying support for the invasion.CreditAlex Wong/Getty Images. Image Maureen Dowd. By Maureen Dowd. March 24, 2018. WASHINGTON — It's unnerving covering a ...

Maureen Dowd interviewed Hollywood mogul Barry Diller for a story that ran in the New York Times Style section this weekend under the provocative headline “All Men Are Guilty.” But despite the headline (a Diller quote), this is not a conversation about a man coming to grips with sexual harassment.

I ran into Harvey Weinstein at the Vanity Fair Oscar party last year. He should have been in his element, dominating and manipulating the Oscars, using the statuettes as a golden lure for young actresses, swanning around as a rare avatar of good taste and champion of roles for older women in an industry ...

On her way to work one morning, down the path along the lake, a tenderhearted woman saw a rich, coldhearted, frozen snake. His tangerine skin was all caked with make-up and his bald spot was frosted with the dew. “Poor thing,” she cried, “I'll take you in, and I'll take care of you.” “Take me in, oh tender ...

On her way to work one morning, down the path along the lake, a tenderhearted woman saw a rich, coldhearted, frozen snake. His tangerine skin was all caked with makeup and his bald spot was frosted with the dew. “Poor thing,” she cried, “I'll take you in, and I'll take care of you.” “Take me in, oh tender ...