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American journalist

Maureen Brigid Dowd (/d//aʊ//d/; born January 14, 1952) is an American columnist for The New York Times and an author. During the 1970s and early 1980s, Dowd worked for The Washington Star and Time, writing news, sports and feature articles. She joined The New York Times in 1983 as a metropolitan reporter, and became an op ed writer in 1995. Dowd became a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine in 2014. In 1999, Dowd received a Pulitzer Prize for her series of columns on the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal. Dowd's columns often explore politics, Hollywood, and gender related topics. Her writing style has been compared to political cartoons in its exaggerated satire of politics and culture. Some have criticized her writings on female public figures, particularly Monica Lewinsky and Hillary Clinton, as sexist.

Dowd was born the youngest of five children in Washington, DC. Her mother, Margaret "Peggy" (née Meenehan), was a housewife, and her father, Mike Dowd, worked as a Washington, DC, police inspector. In 1973, she received a B. A. in English from the Catholic University of America.

Dowd became a columnist on The New York Times op ed page in 1995, Dowd was named a Woman of the Year by Glamour magazine in 1996, and became the first Mary Alice Davis Lectureship speaker (sponsored by the School of Journalism and the Center for American History) at the University of Texas at Austin in 2005. In 2010, Dowd was ranked No. 43 on The Daily Telegraphs list of the 100 most influential liberals in America; in 2007, she was ranked No. 37 on the same list. Dowd's columns have been described as letters to her mother, whom friends credit as "the source, the fountain of Maureen's humor and her Irish sensibilities and her intellectual take." Dowd's columns are distinguished by an acerbic, often polemical writing style. Her columns display a critical and irreverent attitude towards powerful, mostly political, figures such as former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. She also tends to refer to her subjects by nicknames. For example, she has often referred to Bush as "W" and former Vice President Dick Cheney as "Big Time"; and she has called former President Barack Obama "Spock" and "Barry." Her interest in candidates' personalities earned her criticism from some early in her career, such as this: "She focuses too much on the person but not enough on policy." Dowd's columns have also been described as often being political cartoons that capture a caricatured view of the current political landscape with precision and exaggeration. while referring to the Democratic Party as the "mommy party." she was later told she should have only eaten one sixteenth—but that this had not been in the instructions on the label. She went on to describe her negative experiences with legal cannabis in a June 3, 2014 New York Times op ed, following up on this story in another op ed in September 2014, this time describing a discussion of using consumable cannabis with her "marijuana Miyagi" Willie Nelson. On March 4, 2014, Dowd published a column about the dominance of men in the film industry in which she quoted Amy Pascal, co chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment. According to BuzzFeed, "leaked emails from Sony" suggested that Dowd had promised to provide the draft column to Pascal's husband, Bernard Weinraub, prior to the column's publication. BuzzFeed said the column "painted Pascal in such a good light that she engaged in a round of mutual adulation with Dowd over email after its publication." Both Dowd and Weinraub have denied that Weinraub ever received the column. On December 12, 2014, Times public editor Margaret Sullivan concluded, "While the tone of the email exchanges is undeniably gushy, I don't think Ms. Dowd did anything unethical here." In August 2014, it was announced that Dowd would become a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. Her first article under the new arrangement was published more than a year later.

Dowd has been accused of sexism by Clark Hoyt, then public editor of The New York Times. A 2017 study which examined sexualized shaming of Monica Lewinsky in mainstream news coverage stated that in Dowd's extensive writings about Lewinsky, she repeatedly "mocked and disparaged her." A 2009 study of sexism towards Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin in the 2008 election observed that Dowd had disparaged Palin as a "Barbie" over her pageantry past. Other commentators have criticized Dowd for having an obsession with Bill and, especially, Hillary Clinton. She also published a column where she likened former Senator Clinton to the "Terminator", a ruthless cyborg where "unless every circuit is out, she'll regenerate enough to claw her way out of the grave"; in 2013 Jessica Ritchie, a research assistant at the University of Leicester, argued that portrayals such as these sought to portray Clinton and her presidential bid as improper and unnatural. According to then public editor of The New York Times Clark Hoyt, Dowd's columns about Clinton were "loaded with language painting her as a 50 foot woman with a suffocating embrace, a conniving film noir dame and a victim dependent on her husband". During the 2016 presidential election, Dowd penned a New York Times op ed, titled "Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk". She argued that Donald Trump held dovish foreign policy beliefs, citing his purported opposition to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq. However, prior to the publication of the op ed, it had been reported that Trump did in fact support the invasion, and there were no statements on the record opposing it. Throughout Trump's presidency, critics of his foreign policy referenced the Dowd op ed, claiming that many of the actions taken by Trump were entirely inconsistent with the narrative put forth by Dowd. During the 2020 presidential election, Dowd wrote a column about Geraldine Ferraro, which originally—and incorrectly—stated that the last time a man and a woman ran on the Democratic ticket was the Mondale–Ferraro ticket, which led Clinton to joke that "either Tim Kaine and [she] had a very vivid shared hallucination four years ago or Maureen had too much pot brownie before writing her column again". The New York Times later corrected the column to say that 1984 was the last time a male Democratic presidential candidate chose a woman as his running mate.

Dowd is single but formerly dated Aaron Sorkin, the creator and producer of The West Wing. She has also been briefly connected with actor Michael Douglas

In 2012, NUI Galway awarded her an honorary doctorate. In addition to winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for Commentary, she was also a finalist in 1992 for National Reporting.