David Axelrod
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Maureen Dowd: Biden the anti-venom for Trump’s poisonous menace
- US
- October 25, 2020
During the Barack Obama comet streak in 2008, a lot of Americans were electrified by the idea of leaping into modernity with a brainy, young, black co(...)

Maureen Dowd: The US president and the damage done
- US
- August 2, 2020, 14:38
Macbeth has his doubts. But his wife taunts him about his manliness until he bloodies his country. It’s hard to believe, four centuries after Shakes(...)

Maureen Dowd: Biden has his limitations but he’s no Trump
- US
- July 12, 2020, 15:30
Sleepy Joe and Creepy Joe haven’t worked. So now they’re trying Sticky-Fingered Joe. After Joe Biden gave his big economic speech in Dunmore, Pennsylv(...)

John Legend: Bigger Love review – More sickly sweet than sexy
- Music
- June 19, 2020, 05:00
At this point, John Legend has won almost every major music award, collaborated with everyone from Jay Z to Lauryn Hill and cemented his place in the (...)

Maureen Dowd: Trump the vampire enabler lives and lets die
- US
- May 10, 2020, 18:45
This is not a good time for vampires. Or bats. That’s disorienting for me because, as a lifelong aficionado of vampires, I have a big collection of ba(...)

Maureen Dowd: Has game-changing Trump doomed Democrats to irrelevance?
- US
- September 15, 2019, 15:22
He’s in our heads. Even more than we knew. It isn’t just that he hovered over the Democratic debate on Thursday night: should the candidates attack hi(...)

Joe Biden has a problem: too much past, not enough presence
- US
- June 30, 2019, 16:00
In January, a reporter contacted the nascent Biden campaign to request an interview. She wanted to ask the former US vice president about lingering cr(...)

There is a feeling US hawks are building a campaign for a Middle East invasion
- US
- May 19, 2019, 16:08
Only one person can save us from the dangerous belligerent in the White House. And that person is Donald Trump. How screwed up is that? Will the pre(...)

The heavens part. The light shines down. The rise in the oceans begins to slow. The world is once more bathed in the mystical glow of a messiah. Our r(...)

Maureen Dowd: Obama’s softness on banker crime was a gift to Trump
- US
- November 19, 2018, 01:00
When I was in Reykjavik in August, Icelanders were bragging about putting the corrupt bankers who ravaged their economy in prison. In the US, it works(...)