Michael Goodwin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist known for never letting the political elite forget their job is to represent taxpayers. He started his career with The New York Times as a housing reporter and then City Hall bureau chief. He was the editorial page editor at the Daily News, where he directed a series of reports on the Apollo Theater that won the Pulitzer. A series documenting abuse of farmworkers earned the board the Polk Award. In 2000, he was named executive editor of the News and returned to column writing in 2004.
Once again, Barack Obama is a happy pitch man. He's on stage with a microphone, jacket off, sleeves rolled up, his voice rising and falling as he tries to whip the big crowds into revival-tent fervor. He's still...
March 10, 2010 12:00 AM"I can't continue as governor and must re sign." Those are the magic words we all want Gov. Paterson to say. They actually came from Eliot Spitzer two years ago. Spitzer gave us Paterson, and so it's altogether...
March 07, 2010 12:00 AMYesterday, I urged Gov. Pat erson to get a lawyer. Today, I amend the prescription: He should also get a shrink. He needs somebody to help him tell the truth. He shows such an astonishing inability to be straight...
March 04, 2010 12:00 AMThe common view of Gov. Paterson is that he's a slacker, far more interested in the trappings and symbolism of the job than the actual work. No more. The latest news from Albany shows a different side of Paterson....
March 03, 2010 12:00 AMWhen a recent conversation turned to a be leaguered Gov. Paterson, a New York official aimed a barb at journalists. "How many articles took a close look at Paterson before he became lieutenant governor?" the official...
February 28, 2010 12:00 AMHe did it. He really did it. Gov. Paterson pulled a Spitzer. Like his disgraced patron, Paterson created a huge deficit of trust with the citizens of New York, then brazenly committed a firing offense. Now...
February 26, 2010 12:00 AMSomething very good al ready has happened as a result of President Obama's strange entry into the health-care sweepstakes. Think of it as the death of a myth. The myth was that Obama was an innocent bystander...
February 24, 2010 12:00 AMPity poor Gov. Paterson. Everybody is picking on him. Nobody understands how he's fighting the spe cial interests. How he alone is standing up for all that's good and right in New York. Even the chattering classes...
February 21, 2010 12:00 AMIn the odd dance of diplomacy, tough talk can be a signal that no action will follow. But the tough talk coming from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton about Iran appears to signal an even more disheartening...
February 17, 2010 12:00 AMPresident Obama has lost the country. Poll after poll confirms the American public has caught on to his false claim to be a mainstream centrist and, in the short run, there is little he can do to regain the trust he...
February 14, 2010 12:00 AMSay this for Gov. Paterson: Reports of his early demise have not diminished his capacity for hatching bad ideas. His latest may be his worst ever. He's taking a break from fighting charges of corruption and...
February 10, 2010 12:00 AMAttention, New Yorkers: This is an emergency. Your government is collapsing. Just when it seemed the most dysfunctional state capital couldn't get any worse, it has. Albany is melting, going broke financially and...
February 07, 2010 12:00 AM
TEL AVIV, Israel -- Here's the nightmare scenario. Prime Minis ter Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel requests an urgent, private meeting with President Obama. At the White House, the two men sit alone and Netanyahu, looking...
February 03, 2010 12:00 AMJERUSALEM, Israel -- By pushing for a Mideast breakthrough while de manding that only Israel make concessions, Presi dent Obama blundered badly in one of his first foreign-policy gambits. But it was a mistake that was...
January 31, 2010 12:00 AMFirst, the news. Some of it is good. The best is that Harold Ford Jr. told me yester day he wants the 9/11 trial moved out of New York. That puts the spunky Democrat at odds on another major issue with the White...
January 27, 2010 12:00 AMWe the people of the United States owe Scott Brown's sup porters a huge debt of gratitude. They didn't merely elect a senator. They ripped the façade off the Obama presidency. Just as Dorothy and Toto exposed the...
January 24, 2010 12:00 AMA friend who toiled in the magazine business tells a story. In the mid-1970s, the publisher of their national news weekly took him to lunch to celebrate how well things were going. Circulation and ads were both roaring...
January 20, 2010 12:00 AMPresident Obama had some low points in his first year, but it looks like we ain't seen nothing yet. Year 2 of his reign of error is shaping up as more of the same, only worse. Much worse. In just one day last...
January 17, 2010 12:00 AM
It's enough to make you think Barack Obama doesn't love New York. OK, let me be clear: The president of the United States hates us. He socks New Yorkers with massive new taxes to fund his health-care monstrosity....
January 13, 2010 12:00 AMI try not to overdose on the fear factor, but the shocking intelligence failure in the Christmas airline plot isn't the only national security night mare facing America. While we were all absorbed with the underwear...
January 10, 2010 12:00 AMSomeday, somebody not from Hollywood will make a movie about President Obama's disastrous vacation. About how his aides waited for nearly three hours after the Christmas airliner attack to wake him. About how he waited...
January 06, 2010 12:00 AMWhen I say "Happy New Obama Year," let me be clear: I mean we need a new President Obama in the new year. It won't be easy for Mr. Nobel Peace Prize to change course and his tune. But he doesn't have much choice if...
December 30, 2009 12:00 AM'TIS the season for Frank Capra movies, and not just "It's a Wonderful Life." The schmaltzy tug-of-hearts dubbed "Capra-corn" gets me every time, especially the populist politics of "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"...
December 23, 2009 12:00 AMI am a baby boomer, which is to say my life has coincided with turbulent and awesome times. From the Cold War to Vietnam, from Watergate to Monicagate, through the horrors of 9/11 and the stunning lifestyle advances,...
December 20, 2009 12:00 AMOf all the surprises of President Obama's first year, the biggest is his continuing tin ear for the mood of the country. He often appears clueless about what Americans want. Almost from the moment he stepped into...
December 16, 2009 12:00 AMThere was much to like in President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize speech, including admitting his achieve- ments are "slight" and oth ers are more deserving. Candor becomes him. Other welcome passages defended the...
December 13, 2009 12:00 AMThe other day, I wrote that President Obama has "run out of both charm and ideas." I was too kind. To judge from the string of whoppers in his dreary jobs speech yesterday, he's also run out of facts. And he's...
December 09, 2009 12:00 AMPerhaps it was inevitable. A man who voted "pres ent" 130 times in the Illi nois Legislature couldn't possibly morph into a savvy and decisive leader of the free world in such a short time. Yet even the pessimists...
December 06, 2009 12:00 AMBefore he said a word at West Point last night, President Obama must have had a rude awakening. His decision to escalate our forces in Afghanistan could come only after he faced a fact of international life he tried to...
December 02, 2009 12:00 AMWhen President Obama finally an nounces his Afghani stan decision Tues day, the number of additional troops he sends will dominate headlines. But the real test of his leadership will depend on the depth of his...
November 29, 2009 12:00 AM
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