Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd is a New York Times columnist.
- Opinion
- Epstein fallout
The spell of Jeffrey Epstein haunts the White House
After a week bristling with lurid revelations, it’s clear that no matter how much the US president wishes him away, Jeffrey Epstein is haunting Trump and is persisting as a national obsession.
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- Pop culture
Why one smart dumb blonde has persisted as the world’s most shimmery sex symbol
Norma Jeane Mortenson is getting the love she always craved. In a world that lacks artists who burn through the screen she remains as seductive as ever.
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- Opinion
- AI
Big tech is waking up to the idea that human nature may be worth saving. Too late?
Maybe the lords of the cloud are feeling guilty as it becomes apparent that AI is going to subsume us.
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- Opinion
- Vale
Why Captain Outrageous was nothing like the gutless billionaires who submit to Trump
The swashbuckler and great rival of Rupert Murdoch once laughed about how he could pause his medication and see off his tycoon rival once and for all.
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- Opinion
- Trump's America
His Majesty and our travesty: Amid No Kings protests, Charles trumped the tyrant president
Nobody cared what Charles had to say last time he visited America because all eyes were on Princess Di, the Sloane Square Cinderella. This time, he was the Cinderfella.
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- Opinion
- Trump diplomacy
All of his assumptions proven wrong, Donald Trump is Iran’s newest hostage
Iran’s generals are tormenting the US president, out-trolling the master troller, and mocking him as a Bibi puppet who wants to distract from the Epstein files.
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- Opinion
- Donald Trump
Watching Pope Leo school Trump is a blessed sight
Amoral US President Donald Trump has taken on the saintly Pope Leo, the first American to lead the Catholic Church. Trump’s not winning.
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- Opinion
- Epstein fallout
A bitter ex, a deleted tweet, and Melania’s strange decision to dump kerosene on the Epstein fire
The first lady felt compelled to clear up how she and Donald Trump met, saying she was had not been introduced to him by child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
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- Opinion
- Trump's White House
Sucking up to Trump will always be a losing battle. Just ask Pam and Kristi
Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem were discarded despite their eagerness to do anything to please the US president, debasing themselves and desecrating their departments in the process.
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- Opinion
- Trump diplomacy
Trump bragged ‘they let you do it’. This frenzy of narcissism is the result
Cadet Bone Spurs has developed a taste for flaunting our unparalleled military, and there’s no one at the Pentagon to curb this new appetite for global violence.
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