Maureen Dowd: What happened in Washington on Wednesday was a heartbreaking disgrace

As I had Thanksgiving alone, no doubt my Trump-loving family poured one out for him

The radioactive American president is sabotaging the transition as the pandemic rages

Disintegrating diva can give in to fantasy and leave rest of us to cold, unforgiving reality

President’s conspiracy schtick gets nowhere as Joe Biden’s Cinderfella story bewitches

Even if Joe Biden wins on Tuesday, it will not be easy to restore what has been lost

A lot of voters seem relieved to step back in time with a sentimental old-school Irish pol

The Borat actor on his new film and why he is reluctant to be a celebrity

Rupert Murdoch’s younger son on quitting News Corp and not watching Succession

Steroid-pumped US president looks to public gatherings and more bogus Covid-19 claims

In a moment that feels biblical, the implacable coronavirus has come to the US president’s door

Maureen Dowd: Donald Trump is in position to reshape US supreme court long past his time in office

President’s eager tone on tapes shows how keen he was to impress Bob Woodward

Maureen Dowd: The US president’s daughter eyes the driver’s seat when her papa is done with it

Maureen Dowd: The virtual Democratic convention delivered real results

The US is rapidly moving past such caricatures. Besides, women should be angry

Biden’s running mate can expect an unprecedentedly rough time from Team Trump

Donald Trump’s tragic errors of judgment have plunged his country into a nightmare

The billionaire on life with Grimes and Baby X, Trump, Tesla, tunnels and blasting off

Youngest woman to serve in Congress shows up anachronistic attitudes for what they are

The scary gulf between Fauci and Trump has life-or-death consequences for Americans

It’s the difference between fibs and whoppers, white lies and white supremacy

Maureen Dowd: Occupant of the White House is badly out of step with US national psyche

I grew up in the shadow of two powerful patriarchies, the Catholic Church and the police. Both institutions attracted an element o(...)

The dynamic between sports and politics considerably more torrid this season

Maureen Dowd: The euphoria of seeing a first black president has given way to desolation and racial strife

US president trolls as Twitter and Facebook refine their algorithms to monetise rage

Humanity showing through everywhere except, ironically, with the unmasked president

Man tasked with leading US out of valley of death appears removed, shirking responsibility

US Democrats always set standards that come back and bite them

US TV’s great misanthrope is relieved that social life and handshaking are out of fashion

Maureen Dowd: US president turns to Jared Kushner, another uninformed man-child, in coronavirus crisis

New York governor has superficial parallels in style to Trump but his motives are purer

Dr Anthony Fauci has been battling both coronavirus and White House misdirection

Coronavirus badly exposing president’s lack of empathy and blame-shifting

US president psychologically incapable of responding to complex and uncertain virus

The coronavirus is immune to conspiracy theories, nasty diatribes or nicknames

An unfettered Trump, playing out his own movie script, setting a torch to Washington

Wealthy candidates Trump and Bloomberg clash amid memes, trolls and web warriors

Democrats should be terrified as the president re-enacts The Godfather payback scenes

Impeachment process shows Trump the most brutishly powerful Republican of all time

He had savaged all his fellow Republicans and yet here they were, his Praetorian guard

Ken Starr and Alan Dershowitz’s laxity on sexual assault will further energise women voters

Maureen Dowd: Meghan brings a refreshing dose of semi-radical chic to the royal family

As Nancy Pelosi said, don’t mess with us when it comes to words like that

‘I’ve been pleasantly surprised that Trump has done exactly what he promised’

President has become an Ahab-like figure chasing something that could sink him

Trump has duped the GOP into helping Russia to undermine US democracy

Bloomberg v Trump would be a battle of New York giants, but is there much between them?

Democrat’s resignation amid revenge porn scandal shows risks of desire to document everything

President’s cancelling of newspaper subscriptions is the act of an angry lover

Film an allegory for this era: ‘A cynical world where you can’t beat the house and money wins’

The speaker is in a fine mood now she has turned her attention to reining in Trump

‘If the president has done what has been alleged, then he is stepping into a ... minefield’

Democratic debate shows how president has altered the way US experiences politics

Trump is no gun nut but orphaned child image shows him devoid of human empathy

Candidates who in the past might have headed the presidential pack are struggling in the polls

Mueller hearings shamed Republicans and failed Democrats thirsting for impeachment

US president has shifted from subtlety to let toads of racism leap straight from his mouth

It is a deranged proposition that Nancy Pelosi is the problem in dangerous era of Trump

House of Representatives speaker has defied critics and written a third act for herself

Maureen Dowd: Arrogance of former vice president’s operation came spilling out on the debate stage

Despite claims of displaying weakness, US president called off dangerous strike on Iran

President wallows in mendacity and amorality in a way unique in history of the office

President’s self-serving plans to hijack Independence Day party sucks the fun out of it

It’s exhausting to keep explaining how beyond the pale the 45th US president is

Will Trump drag his national security adviser and other uber hawks back from the precipice of their fondest desire to attack Iran?

When the Vatican complains you’re dragging the US ‘back to the past’ , you know you’re in trouble

Transformation of Barr into evil genius outplaying old friend Mueller a nasty spectacle

Departing French ambassador to US tells of Trump’s ‘genius’ in transforming Republican Party

Truth of Mueller report is Trump’s dirtbag machinations are driven by insane vanity

The many women leaders in Game of Thrones parallels the rise of women leaders around the world

No one, from the president down, knew when the report would come or what it would say

Pugilistic progressives may not stomach rich kid like Beto when US is in eat-rich mood

Trump’s messy break-up with his lawyer shows he does not give or deserve loyalty

The painful reality is he is head of a family that has messily spilled into the tabloids

Celebrity supersedes criminality. How can you see clearly when you’re looking into the sun?

The world’s richest man has become a folk hero due to his row with ‘National Enquirer’

Cat’s cradle of dirty tricks trips up putative dognapper along with Paul Manafort

Trump feels heat of vengeance against the wicked man in the White House

Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s vocational drive contrasts with President Trump’s opportunism

Madam Speaker can count, legislate, horse-trade and stroke – plus she’s very, very tough

Sea of empty seats on arena tour a sign of delusional Bill and Hillary’s lack of relevance

Trump’s genius for hate and division has driven us into a canyon that won’t be easy to exit

Trump’s promise to punish Wall Street for ‘getting away with murder’ was another con

Those who eroded America’s moral authority in the 2000s are now its moral guardians

Former presidential candidate wonders whether 1987 controversy led US down road to Trump

Mastermind of Fox News hate-breeding techniques provided playbook for president

The Saudis need the US more than the US needs them. Yet they continue to be coddled

If Republicans had wanted to vet Kavanaugh, Judge would already have been subpoenaed

Blasey Ford dealing with dark forces not in play during Hill-Thomas episode

The US president may be widely shunned but at the bottom of the world he has found a loyal mate

Running the rule over moral leadership and being only second world leader to give birth

The Trumps have often been compared to a mob family – and with good reason

How the US president might set the agenda for another day of self-aggrandisement

Perhaps it’s an Oedipal thing, that Putin reminds Trump of his authoritarian father

Hostility that so easily flows from his fingers now defines his immigration policy

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: 'I wake up every day and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day'

Maureen Dowd: Try as she might, nobody is buying the blond saviour routine any more

Former US president’s threadbare routine of maudlin self-pity does not work any more