Michelle Goldberg

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

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

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Opinion: Farewell to George Santos, the perfect MAGA Republican

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

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

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 camp.

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Opinion: The Durham fiasco is a warning of what’s 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...

Special Immigrant Visa candidate Abdul Rashid ...

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Opinion: 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’s rapid takeover of Afghanistan, it needs to help Afghans who are trying to rescue themselves, both immediately and in the...

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

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

I’m thrilled and grateful for the Johnson and Johnson vaccine, but I still couldn’t help wondering if I’ll be more vulnerable than those who got two-shot inoculations.

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Opinion: Why Democrats aren’t 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’s resignation. Since then, however, a...

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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’s monoclonal antibody cocktail have been allocated to Washington, which had 265...

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

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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’s relentless lies about voter fraud.

For the past seven months, Donald Trump’s big lie has been that the coronavirus isn’t as dangerous as scientists say, and that his administration has the virus under control. To sustain this lie, Trump’s circle has had to reject the mitigation and containment strategies that many other countries have used to get a handle on the pandemic, because those strategies are tangible reminders of the threat the virus poses.

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Michelle Goldberg: The White House is infected with propaganda

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

For the past seven months, Donald Trump’s big lie has been that the coronavirus isn’t as dangerous as scientists say, and that his administration has the virus under control. To...

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

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

We know now that this wasn’t just Trump being buffoonish and engaging in magical thinking. It was conscious deception.

When I lie in bed struggling to figure out how to balance physical risk, economic sustainability and emotional well-being, I can’t make the equation work. And if I can’t do it, I’m not sure how parents with far fewer resources are doing it either.

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Goldberg: New York’s school chaos is breaking me

August 28, 2020 at 9:00 a.m.

When I lie in bed struggling to figure out how to balance physical risk, economic sustainability and emotional well-being, I can’t make the equation work. And if I can’t do...

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