Maureen Dowd

The US president, who turns 81 on Monday, seems to be in denial about the problems he faces, including a vengeful Donald Trump who is gaining in the polls

Singer’s romance with Travis Kelce has mesmerised the country in a Mars-Venus moment

Democrat believed in government as a force for good but has died at 90 watching US politics coming off the rails

US president’s staff reinforce the impression of a fragile chief executive by overmanaging him

In one sense at least, the charismatic Jimmy Buffett was a model for how to live: Build your life around what you love

Anxiety rises sharply among women in the first half of their 20s, when the brain is still plastic

Trump is feral and cunning and must have shivered as he had his mugshot taken in Fulton County jail, thinking: ‘Damn, I could go to prison’

How an opera-loving federal prosecutor and heroic mayor spiralled into lawlessness, multiple divorces, depression, drinking, money problems and more

Supreme court justice Clarence Thomas joins disreputable Donald Trump on what appears to be a lengthening roll call of dishonour

Maureen Dowd: The most democracy-destroying, soul-crushing, self-obsessed amadán ever to occupy the Oval

Maureen Dowd: Will prosecutor Jack Smith have an ironclad case against Trump who has defrauded America since the cradle, lying, cheating and lining his pockets, and making suckers of nearly everyone?

Striking Hollywood writers fear being rendered irrelevant, and actors want to prevent their digital likenesses from coming under new ownership

The president’s cold shoulder to his seventh grandchild reveals how dated and inauthentic his view of family is

Former governor is aiming to be at the Republican presidential candidates’ debate in August

The guy likes paper. And, like Louis XIV, he believes ‘L’État, c’est moi’