Now in the final straight, Obama is saying as he sees itHis supporters are thrilled to see the Barack Obama they voted for is backMon Jul 20 2015 - 01:01
US spying allegations and taxi revolt over ‘uberisation’ add fuel to French heatwaveMonica Lewinsky steps out of exile at Cannes festival to tackle cyberbulliesMon Jul 06 2015 - 01:01
Maureen Dowd: Hillary Clinton shifts with the winds on trade talksDucking and diving on trade deal raises questions about trustworthinessMon Jun 22 2015 - 01:00
Maureen Dowd: Lame duck Obama’s chickens come home to roostUS president has learned the hard way that you shouldn’t abandon your alliesMon Jun 15 2015 - 01:00
From Paris, with tough loveFrench ambassador to US invents a new form of digital diplomacy for our cacophonous ageMon Jun 08 2015 - 12:28
Maureen Dowd: Will Tinseltown fund another Clinton sequel?Hillary may get cash, but she’ll get little enthusiasm from jaded Hollywood insidersMon Jun 01 2015 - 01:00
Maureen Dowd: Dear Uber chauffeur, please drive up my ratingsI didn’t realise that while I was reviewing my drivers, they were doing the same to meMon May 25 2015 - 01:00
Maureen Dowd: Be warned, young people have strokes tooFit, healthy and not one to overindulge, my niece Tara was an unlikely victimMon May 04 2015 - 01:00
Hillary Clinton must learn to access her inner bitchIs there nothing between Macho Man and Humble Granny for Hillary?Mon Apr 20 2015 - 01:00
Hillary Clinton faces fight to charm voters one by oneLack of large-scale allure reflected in planned low-key start to campaignWed Apr 15 2015 - 10:36
Forget wishy-washy Carrie Mathison, the CIA sisterhood is more like ElastigirlReal female CIA operatives say they are tired of being misrepresentedMon Apr 06 2015 - 01:00
Maureen Dowd: Can Jeb ‘45’ Bush really be his own man?The neocons are swirling around Jeb, ready to inhabit another president BushMon Mar 30 2015 - 01:00
Commentary: South by Southwest festival has lost its claws despite twee cat focusIn festival of interactivity, connectivity, sharing and Tindering, the two big stars were Grumpy Cat and Meerkat, a live-streaming video appMon Mar 23 2015 - 01:00
An open letter to Hillary Clinton on breaking the rulesYour ill-advisedly deleting 30,000 emails just makes us want to sigh: okay, just take the presidencyMon Mar 16 2015 - 01:00
With the Clintons, there is always something left lurking in the shadowsHillary’s private email controversy highlights her desire for controlMon Mar 09 2015 - 01:00
Maureen Dowd: Women ratchet up the raunch for themselvesNew generation of women in film and TV take things into their own handsMon Mar 02 2015 - 01:00
Jeb trots out usual suspects from another Bush reignTo be seen as his own man, Jeb Bush needs to let go of his big brother’s propsMon Feb 23 2015 - 01:15
Why TV news has lost all its moral authorityNBC’s anchor Brian Williams is in trouble, but respect for the medium is already goneMon Feb 09 2015 - 01:00
Romney lost race because wrong Mitt was runningAfter he saw the documentary ‘Mitt’, the former Massachusetts governor thought he could be presidentMon Feb 02 2015 - 01:00
Maureen Dowd: Splendid isolation jolts Obama back to lifeDefeat has left the US president free to resume being the consummate outsiderMon Jan 26 2015 - 01:00
‘Selma’ version of Lyndon B Johnson is a dangerous distortionFilm-makers have a responsibility to be accurate about race, the US’s original sinMon Jan 19 2015 - 01:00
Reintroducing US veterans to the country they fought forStarbucks boss Howard Schultz has taken up the cause of returning combatantsMon Nov 03 2014 - 01:00
An affair to misremember – but where is the truth in a world of unreliable narrators?‘The Affair’, starring Dominic West, is the classic scenario of he said she saidMon Oct 20 2014 - 01:01
‘Gone Girl’ misogyny claims reflect an attitude that is the enemy of artFilm noir vixens always beat boring cinema portraits of idealised womenMon Oct 13 2014 - 01:00
Secret service chief’s sacking had nothing to do with genderJulia Pierson withheld crucial information and papered over fiascos at a vital agencyMon Oct 06 2014 - 01:00
Little will be heard from Arab leaders on atrocities of Islamic State against womenThe US looks past human rights in the Middle East as it woos the coalitionMon Sept 29 2014 - 01:00
Recalling high times with Willie Nelson as the ‘Honeysuckle Rose’ rolls into townOpinion: country singer’s tour bus ideal venue to discuss US marijuana lawsMon Sept 22 2014 - 01:00
Calling time on football league’s controversial grow-the-pie guyNFL commissioner is acting more like Nixon than like his courageous fatherMon Sept 15 2014 - 01:00
‘Beauty and Beast’ lurk in portrait of sex researcher MastersOpinion: repulsive William Masters was the opposite of Tony Blair and David FrostMon Sept 01 2014 - 01:00
Obama to a tee: my speech for the presidentOpinion: be a player on the world stage? I’d rather play golf, says our leaderMon Aug 25 2014 - 01:00
Maureen Dowd: US doesn’t know what to call enemy in IraqWe’re in a new war in Iraq with some bad ‘folks’, as the president might say, whose name we’re still fuzzy onMon Aug 11 2014 - 01:00
Don’t expect any real stuff in W’s late paean to DadIs Bush biography a bid to exorcise the ghosts of all who died for no reason?Mon Aug 04 2014 - 01:01
Baseball legend who hits home runs on the page‘New Yorker’ writer Roger Angell is the game’s undisputed poet laureateMon Jul 28 2014 - 01:00
Bill Clinton burns ever brighter in public’s esteem as Obama fadesClinton’s displays of empathy provide a sharp contrast with the president’s chillinessMon Jul 21 2014 - 01:00
Former first daughter feeds speech fees into gaping maw of Clinton IncThe Clinton family act as if all they care about is selfless public serviceMon Jul 14 2014 - 01:00
Chronic disillusionment and burden of optimism weigh down USOpinion: defensive US is struggling to come to grips with the loss of its sense of greatnessMon Jul 07 2014 - 01:00
Cautious Hillary icily assesses politically frozen USOpinion: Clinton’s claim that she is no longer scripted and safe is not credibleMon Jun 16 2014 - 01:00
Europe defies Big Data’s right to All DataThe European Court of Justice’s ruling enshrines the right to forgetMon May 26 2014 - 01:00
What would Condoleeza say at Rutgers had she not been banned?Overly PC students missed a chance to hear Rice explain her fall from graceMon May 19 2014 - 01:00
American nuns at rough end of Pope Francis’s mixed messagesWhether deliberate or not, Vatican ambiguity is most harsh on womenMon May 12 2014 - 01:00
Ravenous and relentless Clintons itching to get back in the saddleAs a tired and fed-up Obama looks ready to pass the baton, Hillary looks ready to grab itMon May 05 2014 - 01:00
Reaction to racist rant shows GOP in thrall to extremistsBigoted views of folk hero Cliven Bundy proves embarrassing for RepublicansMon Apr 28 2014 - 01:00
Thunderbirds are go, Mustang still sexy at 50Since its launch in 1964, Ford’s Mustang has been an affordable classicMon Apr 21 2014 - 01:00
Colbert’s pungent wit takes social change out of satireOpinion: new US ‘Late Show’ host has surgical wit but is no radicalMon Apr 14 2014 - 01:00
Washington has nothing on ‘Game of Thrones’Opinion: US senate seems tame after the cut and thrust of one of Barack Obama’s favourite seriesMon Apr 07 2014 - 01:00
Jerry Brown mellows on Hillary Clinton and ‘Slick Willie’Governor of California says former adversary is in strong position for White HouseMon Mar 24 2014 - 01:00
Distressed Democrats desperate for some – any – action from ObamaAhead of the midterms, a sense of malaise is building around Obama and the DemocratsMon Mar 17 2014 - 01:01
Obama can add misspelled Aretha anthem to list of disappointmentsThere are many things the unpopular US president just doesn’t getMon Mar 10 2014 - 01:00
Hillary Clinton shapes up for the resurgence of US dynastic politicsThe Clintons don’t get defeated in elections: they get postponedMon Mar 03 2014 - 01:00
