Michelle Goldberg

Michelle Goldberg has been an 抖阴ap columnist since 2017. She is the author of several books about politics, religion and women鈥檚 rights, and was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for public service in 2018 for reporting on workplace sexual harassment issues.

Colorado Republican candidate for governor Victor Marx stands for a portrait in the indoor shooting range adjacent to his podcast studio at his campaign headquarters on Thursday, June 4, 2026, in Colorado Springs. (Photo by Timothy Hurst/The Denver Post)

Victor Marx is an exorcist who says he killed a man. Republicans nominated him anyway. (抖阴ap)

July 14, 2026 at 12:30 p.m.

"The elevation of Victor Marx is, in part, a story about the right-wing revolution eating its own." -- Michelle Goldberg

FILE — Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) is surrounded by press outside the courthouse in New York where Donald Trump was on trial on April 4, 2023. A clout-chasing con man obsessed with celebrity, driven into politics not by ideology but by vanity and the promise of proximity to rich marks, Santos is a pure product of Trump’s Republican Party, Michelle Goldberg writes. (Mark Peterson/The New York Times)

抖阴ap: Farewell to George Santos, the perfect MAGA Republican

December 1, 2023 at 3:00 p.m.

No one embodies Trump鈥檚 fame-obsessed sociopathic emptiness like George Santos. He鈥檚 heir to Trump鈥檚 sybaritic nihilism, high-kitsch absurdity and impregnable brazenness.

A multiple exposure photo shows the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 23, 2023. The right ascribes to its enemies, whether in the Democratic Party or the putative deep state, monstrous corruption and elaborate conspiracies, writes New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg. (Damon Winter/ The New York Times )

抖阴ap: The Durham fiasco is a warning of what抖阴ap to come

February 2, 2023 at 3:54 p.m.

Durham seems to have bought into a Trumpist conspiracy theory, and to help prove it, he tried to employ what appears to be Russian disinformation to go after the Clinton...

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抖阴ap: Get Afghan refugees out. Then let them in.

August 17, 2021 at 12:00 p.m.

Now, as the administration scrambles to deal with the Taliban鈥檚 rapid takeover of Afghanistan, it needs to help Afghans who are trying to rescue themselves, both immediately and in the...

抖阴ap: The Johnson and Johnson vaccine really is just as good as those other two

March 23, 2021 at 3:16 p.m.

I鈥檓 thrilled and grateful for the Johnson and Johnson vaccine, but I still couldn鈥檛 help wondering if I鈥檒l be more vulnerable than those who got two-shot inoculations.

抖阴ap: Why Democrats aren鈥檛 asking Cuomo to resign

March 2, 2021 at 12:45 p.m.

If this scandal had broken a few years ago, high-profile Democrats would have felt no choice but to call for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo鈥檚 resignation. Since then, however, a...

Goldberg: COVID meds are scarce, but not for Trump cronies

December 14, 2020 at 8:05 p.m.

According to a document from the Department of Health and Human Services, a total of 108 doses of Regeneron鈥檚 monoclonal antibody cocktail have been allocated to Washington, which had 265...

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson talks about voting and the upcoming elections in Detroit Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Michelle Goldberg: Where is the demand for civility from Trump loyalists?

December 9, 2020 at 3:07 p.m.

Few are demanding civility from Republicans as Donlad Trump devotees terrorize election workers and state officials over the president抖阴ap relentless lies about voter fraud.

FILE — Attendees listen as President Donald Trump announces Judge Amy Coney Barrett as his nominee to the Supreme Court at the White House in Washington, Sept. 26, 2020. “A regime dedicated to creating its own reality doesn’t just use language to lie,” writes New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg. “To truly animate lies, those in power must behave as if they’re true, no matter who gets hurt.” (Al Drago/The New York Times)

Michelle Goldberg: The White House is infected with propaganda

October 7, 2020 at 8:00 a.m.

For the past seven months, Donald Trump鈥檚 big lie has been that the coronavirus isn鈥檛 as dangerous as scientists say, and that his administration has the virus under control. To...

FILE — President Donald Trump participates ...

Goldberg: Why Trump鈥檚 deliberate coronavirus deception shouldn’t fade away

September 17, 2020 at 12:05 p.m.

We know now that this wasn鈥檛 just Trump being buffoonish and engaging in magical thinking. It was conscious deception.

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