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Maureen Dowd

New York, Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C., United States

Op-Ed Columnist at The New York Times

Columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner, @nytopinion. Author: “Year of Voting Dangerously,” “Bushworld,” “Are Men Necessary?” and “Notorious”

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Articles

  • 4 days ago | myheraldreview.com | Maureen Dowd

    WASHINGTON — Elon Musk came to Washington with a chain saw and left with a black eye. Shrinking government is hard, particularly when you do it callously and carelessly — and apparently on hallucinogens. kAmpD H:E9 !C6D:56?E s@?2=5 %CF>A’D E2C:77D[ E96 s6A2CE>6?E @7 v@G6C?>6?E t77:4:6?4J 92D 4C62E65 >@C6 G@=2E:=:EJ E92?

  • 5 days ago | smh.com.au | Maureen Dowd

    New York Times columnist June 1, 2025 — 4.35pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Elon Musk came to Washington with a chain saw and left with a black eye. Shrinking government is hard, particularly when you do it callously and carelessly – and apparently on hallucinogens. As with President Donald Trump’s tariffs, the Department of Government Efficiency has created more volatility than value.

  • 6 days ago | nytimes.com | Maureen Dowd

    Elon Musk came to Washington with a chain saw and left with a black eye. Shrinking government is hard, particularly when you do it callously and carelessly - and apparently on hallucinogens. As with President Trump's tariffs, DOGE has created more volatility than value. A guy who went bankrupt six times doesn't really care about spending.

  • 6 days ago | keysnews.com | Maureen Dowd

    The denouement of Joe Biden is unbearably sad. The Irishman who could spend 45 minutes answering one question lost his gift of gab. The father who saw two of his children die and two spin into addiction wilted under the ongoing stress, especially when Hunter Biden — “my only living son,” as Joe called him — got tangled in the legal system.

  • 1 week ago | spokesman.com | Maureen Dowd

    When Donald Trump was headed for the Republican nomination in the summer of 2016, I took Carl Hulse, our chief Washington correspondent, to Trump Tower to meet him. Trump didn’t know anything about the inner workings of Washington. He proudly showed us his “Wall of Shame” with pictures of Republican candidates he had bested.

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10 May 25

Barry Diller talks about his primo career and “pretend life.” https://t.co/xuA3sIBGAT

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26 Apr 25

The Pentagon’s puer aeterni and the White House hen party. https://t.co/d0JIweVx0A

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2 Apr 25

So proud. You’re a great reporter @AlexThomp!

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Congratulations to @AlexThomp of @axios, winner of the WHCA’s Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence in White House Coverage. The award will be presented at the WHCA's annual dinner on April 26 celebrating White House journalism and the 1st Amendment. https://t.co/kETPNnFalo