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Maureen Dowd

Maureen Dowd

Maureen Dowd is a New York Times columnist.

Sarah Pidgeon as Carolyn Bessette and Paul Anthony Kelly as John F. Kennedy Jr in Love Story.

How this Kennedy drama has flipped the Camelot script

A new dramatised series tracing the romance, wedding and stunningly sad death of JFK Jr and Carolyn Bessette has found unexpected audiences.

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Kristi Noem is one of America's most conservative governors.

Forget Margot and Jacob, this is Wuthering Heights, MAGA-style

A Washington scandal involving sex is never very sexy but this one has echoes of Emily Bronte’s classic.

  • Maureen Dowd
Donald Trump speaks to reporters after the Supreme Court struck down the bulk of his sweeping global tariffs, delivering a major blow against his signature economic policy.

Trump’s in a presidential pickle as the Supreme Court finds a spine

Judges have finally stood to up the “emperor of chaos”. Is this a turning point in the US president’s rule?

  • Maureen Dowd
Donald Trump tells us not to worry, but do we really want to hitch a ride with Elon Musk, the tech lords, and their AI machines.

‘Don’t worry about it’: Welcome to Trump’s voyage of the damned

Don’t worry about a sweltering Earth. Don’t worry about those powerful creeps abusing young women. Definitely don’t worry about unfettered AI, the White House tells us.

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Barack Obama and Donald Trump at Jimmy Carter’s funeral in Washington on January 9, 2025.

Trump’s Obama derangement syndrome drags him to a new low

Trump’s team should note that Americans do care that their boss is a racist and off his rocker. He taunts his foes in crude, creepy ways and tries to tattoo his name on everything.

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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive for the premiere of her movie in Washington.

Melania’s $107m infomercial leaves no doubts about the real motivations of the first lady

Many have fantasised that Melania Trump was Rapunzel in the tower, pining to be saved from the ogre. This movie, which earns her at least $US28 million, tells us what we need to know about her.

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Trump’s morphed into Donald of Deliria. God help us all

Historically, Donald Trump was never that keen on military adventurism. Chillingly, he’s changed his mind.

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US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office during a meeting with Zohran Mamdani, mayor-elect of New York, who Trump had previously dismissed as a “communist”.

I’ve seen first-hand what Trump showed the world with his piggy, horseface and slob insults

Donald Trump’s about-face on Mamdani and his fawning for the Saudis makes clear he admires charismatic winners more than he cares about ideology – or consistency.

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Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in the new Moncler ad.

Bromance ads are everywhere, but they hide a darker truth about men

There’s an epidemic of male loneliness and a diminution of friendship and romance in the lives of men, especially young men. Not that you’d know it from all the bromance ads doing the rounds.

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President Donald Trump speaks with reporters aboard Air Force One at Al Udeid Air Base in Doha, Qatar, Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

White House demolition Trump’s ode to self

The joke was that the US president would slap his name on the White House facade. And now it’s happening.

  • Maureen Dowd