Michael Goodwin

OPINION October 20, 2021

Michael Goodwin: Manchin, Sinema are a dying breed. Progressives have won Democrats' civil war

The New York Times has become the enforcer of progressive orthodoxy and has been scorching Sens. Manchin and Sinema on its front page, demanding they stop resisting and get with the Biden-Sanders program.

OPINION October 18, 2021

Michael Goodwin: Zuckerberg and 2020 election – new book offers surprising details on Biden win

Nearly a year has passed since the 2020 election, yet there has not been a clear, satisfactory answer to the central mystery: How did a dull, declining Joe Biden manage to win the presidency?

OPINION October 13, 2021

Michael Goodwin: The Hunter Biden saga remains an outrageous scandal on its first anniversary

Much of America remains in the dark about the scandalous profiteering of the Biden family even one year after the New York Post's report.

OPINION October 6, 2021

Michael Goodwin: Facebook is too big to regulate, too popular and too important for Congress to tackle

Despite Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen’s bold move there is no universal confidence that Congress will take big action.

OPINION October 4, 2021

Michael Goodwin: Joe Biden needs a victory but progressives are eating him alive

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the rest of the progressive caucus still don't understand that in the adult world, you can’t always get what you want.

OPINION September 29, 2021

Michael Goodwin: Everything we feared about Biden's staggering Afghanistan debacle is true

On Tuesday, before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing although a Dem here and there tried to blame former President Trump for his original agreement with the Taliban, there was no serious effort to sugarcoat Biden’s blunder.

OPINION September 27, 2021

Michael Goodwin: Hunter Biden's China connection – is link to president already paying off for Beijing?

While reading a New York Times story about the Justice Department plan to drop serious charges against a Chinese tech executive, I looked for the Hunter Biden angle. It wasn’t a long search.

OPINION September 20, 2021

Michael Goodwin: Milley went rogue – he put activism over duty, joining many in DC who were out to get Trump

The reprehensible actions of Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, take the cake for audacity and arrogance.

OPINION September 13, 2021

Michael Goodwin: Biden's Afghanistan chaos has created a jihadist Disneyland, 20 years after 9/11

This Sept. 11 was different. For the first time since the United States suffered the deadliest attack on its homeland, no American soldiers are in Afghanistan. Not one.

OPINION September 8, 2021

Michael Goodwin: Biden will be competing with the Taliban as 9/11 approaches

Americans should never forget that Joe Biden wanted to celebrate the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan on September 11th.

OPINION August 30, 2021

Michael Goodwin: Biden team's meltdown – Afghanistan crisis renews doubts. Is he up to the job?

The president’s team is understandably shaken by the horrific events in Afghanistan and must fear it will never regain its footing and public trust.

OPINION August 27, 2021

Michael Goodwin: Biden's exit from Afghanistan is a surrender and defeat he wants to call success

America is taking its dead and wounded and leaving Afghanistan in the immediate aftermath of a slaughter. This is not an honorable exit.

OPINION August 23, 2021

Michael Goodwin: Biden's blinders on Afghanistan – here are the costs of president ignoring experts' warnings

Even Democrats are expressing concerns about the president as they learn more about what the White House knew and when it knew it.

OPINION August 18, 2021

Michael Goodwin: Afghanistan fiasco flips media against Biden – this should worry Dems

After the Afghanistan debacle the usual Biden media handmaidens are aggressively poking holes in his preposterous assurances instead of defending him.

OPINION August 16, 2021

Michael Goodwin: Goodbye, Cuomo and de Blasio – here's how new leadership can save New York City

Andrew Cuomo’s resignation and the term-limited end of Mayor de Blasio give New York state and city much-needed chances for fresh starts.

OPINION August 9, 2021

Michael Goodwin: Gov. Cuomo only has a few weeks left in office. Here's how I think it will end

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's already-thin support among Democrats in Albany and Washington has vanished and public polling is collapsing.

OPINION August 4, 2021

Michael Goodwin: If Cuomo survives sexually harassment allegations, the MeToo movement is dead

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo would deserve some respect if he simply apologized, resigned and shut up.

OPINION August 2, 2021

Michael Goodwin: Biden's in the middle of his first crisis and even the New York Times is getting restless

Much of the mainstream media, especially the New York Times, has treated Biden with kid gloves for the first six months of his presidency. But the protection racket can’t hide what people see with their own eyes.

OPINION July 26, 2021

Michael Goodwin: Biden the divider – what happened to all the unity talk in his inaugural address?

Joe Biden’s inaugural speech was pedestrian at best, but its enduring virtue is that the new president left little doubt about his main focus: healing a fractured nation.

OPINION July 19, 2021

Michael Goodwin: Biden's Big Tech blunder – here's how admin's actions threatening First Amendment

The White House and the DNC are going to monitor and "dispel misinformation" on social media and private text messages? And work with congenitally-corrupt "fact checkers"?

OPINION July 14, 2021

Michael Goodwin: Sanders, AOC and fellow Dems demonize US but Cubans know the truth

Sen. Sanders, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and their anti-American ilk are stuck defending economic authoritarianism abroad while its victims are pleading for the United States to save them.

OPINION July 5, 2021

Michael Goodwin: Dems' crime surge – here's the reason safety and policing finally have their attention

Breaking news alert: National Democrats are suddenly worried about the rise of violent crime. We know this because they’re blaming the bloodshed on Republicans.

OPINION June 28, 2021

Michael Goodwin: Dems and New York City – mayoral race could decide party's fate. Here's how

With his declaration that "I am the face of the Democratic Party" and vow that "I am going to show America how to run a city," Eric Adams is putting bold markers on the future, and not just his own.

OPINION June 21, 2021

Michael Goodwin: NYC mayoral election – here's why you must vote as if your life depended on it

It is fashionable to say that every election is the most consequential in a generation. When it comes to the mayoral race, that’s not an exaggeration.

OPINION June 14, 2021

Michael Goodwin: Top 10 biggest lies liberal media has been caught peddling -- and why it matters

The latest media lie to die is the false claim the feds cleared Lafayette Park of protesters last year so then-President Donald Trump could hold a photo op. The Interior Department’s inspector general says police planned to clear the park so a contractor could install a fence.

OPINION June 7, 2021

Michael Goodwin: UNC clash over NY Times writer shows us what’s at stake for journalism's future

A dispute over whether a New York Times writer should get tenure at the University of North Carolina would seem to be of little national importance. But in fact, the outcome will signal whether traditional standards of journalism can survive the onslaught of racialized advocacy the Times embraces.

OPINION May 26, 2021

Michael Goodwin: Crime is now America's public enemy No. 1

In one year the protests and unchecked riots that followed George Floyd’s death have sparked an epidemic of crime that continues to engulf America's cities.

OPINION May 24, 2021

Michael Goodwin: Dems' anti-Israel faction – how Biden is playing to the radicals within his party

Truman's decision made America the first country to recognize the new nation and made him a hero to Jews around the world. It also helped make the Democrat Party a reliable ally of Israel for decades as war after war threatened its survival.

OPINION May 17, 2021

Michael Goodwin: Israel vs. Hamas – Biden should let Netanyahu fight this war his way. Here's why

While it’s true there is a long, bloody history between the combatants, the current fighting is unique in ways that make the endgame especially crucial for the Jewish state and the entire region.

OPINION May 12, 2021

Michael Goodwin: Israel faces war on two fronts – from Hamas and the Biden White House

Israel is defending itself against Hamas but it is also fighting a rear guard diplomatic action against the Biden White House.