Maureen Dowd's Blog, page 51

Dealing With Pot

As Coloradans break out the Cheetohs and Goldfish, the state’s politicians become wary chaperones.

Now Playing in Denver: Reefer Gladness

Denver pot entrepreneurs are so determined to set a good example, they’re acting like Shakers.

Peeling Away the Plastic

Despite the brutal endurance tests of campaigns, do we ever really know the people we put in the Oval Office?

Tines That Try Men’s Souls

A cheesy complaint: Why can’t Hizzoner and I eat pizza with a knife and fork?

Thunder Road

Chris Christie groveled like a champ, but the traffic jam scam is still unraveling.

Beautifying Abbey Road

As Americans decry a Dickensian class divide, they fawn over a British soap opera of manners.

The Commish, the 2nd Time Around

Can Bill Bratton, the old and new police commissioner, stop the “Bonfire of the Vanities” predicted by the Bloombergians?

Spying Run Amok

From “Homeland” to the N.S.A. protecting the homeland: the dark art of creating monsters that can’t be controlled.

Bigger Than Bambi

Be nice or else: In an era when literary feuds lack grandeur, writers argue about affability.

Ain’t Nothin’ Like a Dame

John Boehner plots about how to make broads more broad-minded about the G.O.P.