Maureen Dowd

Do the Democrats really want to stop Trump? What are they prepared to do?

He’s just as intense, but a bit more mellow. Or is he?

He ought to glide along at his own pace.

The fashion designer reacts to a series of saucy statements about her grand life and career.

From a palazzo in Venice, she talks about her struggling business, her marriage to Barry Diller, and the threesome that never happened.

It’s corrupt, rotten and hurting America.

But the real verdict comes on 11/5.

“Why can’t everybody live in my world, in the middle,” he says, “where we’re not nuts?”

A trial that is a meditation on Trump’s amorality.

Looking at who Trump was, is and would be.

The former first lady is swept back into the Stormy cyclone.

His new play “Patriots,” now on Broadway, follows Putin’s rise to power and the Russian oligarchs who mistakenly thought he’d be their puppet.

At Jimmy Buffett’s memorial, Hawaiian shirts, grass skirts and celebrity weed jokes.

I always thought of the Simpson case as a great American tragedy, with its echoes of “Othello.”

Marjorie and Donald, trumpeting the end times.

Trump is, as the nuns who taught me used to say, “a bold, brazen piece.”

It wasn’t entirely sexism.

Hard truths for Joe Biden in the Big Easy.

Cancer is a very personal thing, but the 42-year-old princess is a public figure saddled with an insatiable press corps.

Only in D.C. do you dream about the State of the Union.

While Joe Biden celebrates connubial sex, Republicans emblazon the Scarlet Letter.

How do you like your pal Putin now, Trump?

Biden must confront the age-old question.

As King Charles battles an unnamed form of cancer, the Queen must carry the flag.

There’s no doubt Donald can’t shake off Taylor.

A preview of the new FX series about Truman Capote and New York society.

Trump gives the whiniest victory speech ever.

The “Ally McBeal” star takes on the darker, dagger-like role of Lee Radziwill in “Feud.”

Flipping back and forth between wins and losses in Hollywood and Iowa, I couldn’t help thinking that Trump was at the wrong celebration.

The truth and the media are slip-sliding around in Iowa.

Trump portrays himself as Christlike, even as he bedevils America.

Pope Francis may seem more open, but the church door is still closed.

Robed zealots are turning women into felons and harming their health.

We shouldn’t need to tell these smart people how ignorant they sound.

Was the shake-up at OpenAI a farce or a tragedy?

Surely, he says, the greatest country in the world can do better than these two men.

Biden should aim more barbs at Trump, not at fellow Democrats.

Joe D. couldn’t handle Marilyn’s fame. Can Travis handle Taylor’s?

The “Year of the Woman” turned into three decades for this gutsy woman.

The White House handlers need to be a little more hands-off.

As Jimmy Buffett sang, “The sunrise’ll bring on the sleep that escaped us.”

Young women in crisis are wondering, “What was I made for?”

Donald Trump, Dorian Gray and a tale of two portraits.

The toxic alliance between a former mob slayer and a wannabe mob boss.

Three men walk into a courtroom, as August heats up.

Not curtains for Trump the plotter; it’s the entr’acte.

Inside the studio of the costume master who helped give the world “Klute,” “The English Patient,” “Midnight Cowboy,” “Working Girl,” “Mamma Mia!” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” — and more.

Has Florida Man met his match in an Ironman?

Hollywood is about to get even more phony!

Cherishing family means all of your family.

With his old pal Trump, Christie goes from enabler to destroyer.

Movies from the past shape our present.

Times columnists chose the TV shows, movies, books and songs that capture the country as they see it.

Rough sledding for Citizen Trump.

Let’s Make America Great Again — by getting Trump out of politics.

Before she was an iconic first lady, Jackie was a clever Camera Girl.

As A.I. grows, this is no time to discard the humanities.

For cool kids, symphony halls are getting hotter.

As Sun Tzu says, “Know the enemy.”

Are these men interpreting the law or settling scores?

Nobody’s going to make a movie about reporters at home with their cursors.

He’s sinking, even as he tests the waters.

Lear, Murdoch, Trump and America’s gerontocracy.

New York’s first female fire commissioner faces down a revolt from the old guard.

The comedian, at 96, is happy to inspire a new generation to make their own Hitler jokes.

From Hope of the South to Dope of the South.

Why did a Latinx put an X through The Times?

No soothsayer needed. We know Biden’s future.

ChatGPT ain’t Shakespeare, but it’s still a threat to humanity.

Madam Speaker is thrilled about what comes next: her grandkids and influence without the headaches of power.

A millennial Hamlet haunted by Mummy’s vengeful ghost.

He is the man who brought fantasy to Christmas.

The actor-writer-director is once again collaborating with her romantic partner, Noah Baumbach, in “White Noise” and “Barbie.”

Parents set up foundations to fight the diseases that killed their sons.

We’re as close as ever but still far apart.

His campaign is off to a special start (as in special counsel).

Is this the end of Little Caesar? Or will Trump retain his G.O.P. domain?

Many flew over the Capitol cuckoo’s nest.

After a few up-and-down years at Netflix, the gatekeeper of horror now has the two biggest shows on the streamer.

Gruesome Republicans are writing our national horror story.

Was Liz Truss a cat’s paw for a Boris Johnson comeback?

He’s playing New York’s own Caesar, Robert Moses, in a stage production at the Shed.

Republicans sink to a new low in defending Walker.

What does Vlad the Impaler have in store for the world?

Putin and Trump, dragging the world down with them.

G.O.P. grapes of wrath at Martha’s Vineyard.

No more women reign over the new king.

The Rolling Stone founder talks about LSD, not reading the magazine anymore and how the Stones now look like “Lord of the Rings” characters onstage.

After years of living “as if without history,” the playwright belatedly reckons with his Jewish roots, and his guilt, in “Leopoldstadt,” his most autobiographical play.

The actress is back for the final season of “The Good Fight.”

The Adventures of Mikhail Sergeyevich: An astrologer, an anaconda and a backward motorcade.

In an asymmetrical war, Democrats need their most reliable troops again.

The star fashion editor has reinvented British Vogue and written a memoir. What’s his next act?

Turning the tables, Trump is Elliot Mess.

Rest on your laurels, and don’t run for re-election, Mr. President.

A nation once in the grip of religious extremism sadly watches America’s lurch to the right on abortion.

Is Eric Adams revealing himself to be the man the city needs?

The New Yorker writer talks about his new Weinstein biography, and the worst person he ever covered. It’s someone else.

An out-of-control court sends women back to the Dark Ages.

Trump set a fire with lies, then doused Mike Pence in gasoline.