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.
Now he tells us. According to Mayor Bloomberg, the "yelling and screaming" about the Ground Zero mosque is just "people trying to stir things up to get publicity and trying to polarize people so they can get some votes...
August 29, 2010 12:00 AMWith Donald Trump and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver now urging developers to move the Ground Zero mosque, the New Majority movement continues to pick up broad support. From Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin to Howard...
August 25, 2010 12:00 AMIt's a joke, one of those mass Internet mailings that gets a laugh and captures the spirit of the moment. It goes like this: I just applied for a building permit for a new house. It was going to be 100 ft tall and...
August 22, 2010 12:00 AMThe first is the most powerful man in the world, a charismatic politician whose election made history. The second is among the richest men in the world, a businessman-turned-pol who has an iron grip on New York...
August 18, 2010 12:00 AMThanks for nothing, Mr. President. Now we know how Arizona feels. First Obama stood with the president of Mexico as he bashed Americans as bigots for exercising their right of democracy on illegal immigration....
August 15, 2010 12:00 AM
A Headline says it all: "Hillary for vice president movement gains traction." I have no doubt it's true, but I have a question: Why? On one level, the answer is obvious -- politics. Without a boost of voters and...
August 11, 2010 12:00 AMA New poll showing 61 percent of New Yorkers oppose the Ground Zero mosque illustrates the bitter battle taking shape around the project. The statewide survey finds “large majorities of all New Yorkers, every party,...
August 08, 2010 5:33 AM
Mayor Bloomberg's latest defense of the Ground Zero mosque is passionate and detailed and, once again, com pletely unpersuasive. Worse, his recounting of old New York's history of religious intolerance comes off as a...
August 04, 2010 12:00 AMIt was Lily Tomlin who said "I always wanted to be somebody, but now I real ize I should have been more specific." President Obama must know the feeling. He took office wanting to remake America and he...
August 01, 2010 12:00 AM
The House members summoned to investigate Charlie Rangel repeatedly as sured the TV cameras yesterday they were filled with regret and sadness at their solemn duty against a colleague. But reading the detailed...
July 30, 2010 12:00 AM
Identify yourself as a "Democrat" or "Republican," and hardly anybody will accuse you of being a reformer. Party labels of any kind are increasingly -- and correctly -- seen as obstacles to the kind of sweeping change...
July 28, 2010 12:00 AMIf all goes according to plan, Wednesday will be the D-Day of New York education. That is when officials will present an honest assessment of how state students are doing in reading and math. Just as making an...
July 25, 2010 12:00 AMIn his passionate defenses of the planned mosque near Ground Zero, Mayor Bloomberg depicts the issue as a simple case of freedom of religion. "People have a right to pray, and I think, you know, we have a quarter...
July 21, 2010 12:00 AMJustice is blind, but not stupid. At least not in the case of the odious Lynne Stewart. It took years, but this is a story of triumph for innocent people everywhere in the war against terrorists. The criminal...
July 18, 2010 12:00 AMOver the years, I occasionally was invited to watch a Yankee game from George Steinbrenner's box at the Stadium. Until his health declined, The Boss was always on hand as a cheerful and gracious host to a group that at...
July 14, 2010 12:00 AMAt first glance, the idea that we are losing the freedom to fail sounds like a reason to celebrate. Losing the chance to fail should also mean we're guaranteed to win, right? Wrong. Misguided social perfectionists...
July 06, 2010 12:00 AMLast December, when he announced his decision on Afghanistan, President Obama solved one problem and created another. It was quite a feat, all the more so because he did it in a single paragraph. "As commander-in...
June 30, 2010 12:00 AMWith the shock still fresh over the sacking of Gen. Stanley Mc Chrystal, it fell to Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, to put the case in perspective: "We are and must remain a neutral instrument of...
June 27, 2010 12:00 AM
Truth is no defense to in subordination. For the good of the troops, the mission and the entire military command structure, Gen. Stanley McChrystal must be sacked. It matters not a whit whether McChrystal is...
June 23, 2010 12:00 AM"Toy Story," the movie, is all the rage. Albany Story, the farce, causes rage. There are no heroes or happy endings in the capital, even as state leaders pinky-swear they're going straight this time. No more foolin'...
June 20, 2010 12:00 AMOnce again, President Obama channels Oscar Wilde, who famously said the only thing he couldn't resist was temptation. So it is with Obama's attempt to turn the Gulf oil debacle into a reason why America should...
June 16, 2010 12:00 AMHold the wailing. The city's announcement that 21,000 students are headed for summer school should not be confused with bad news. It is instead a welcome sign that standards are being raised. The scandal isn't that...
June 13, 2010 12:00 AMCall me a cockeyed optimist, but the Helen Thomas storm may have a silver lining. To find it, the White House and the rest of the anti-Israel crowd must see Islamic radicals for what they are. Consider what Thomas...
June 09, 2010 12:00 AMHis message is wrong. He's not showing enough anger. He's lost control of the narrative. He's a vic tim of bad luck and big oil. It's excuse time in the fudge factory. President Obama is getting lots of cover and...
June 06, 2010 12:00 AMIn the aftermath of the Gaza flotilla fiasco, the air is thick with nonsense. Chief among the instant myths is that Israel has created a dilemma for President Obama. Actually, it's the other way around. The...
June 02, 2010 12:00 AMAlong with its usual claims that cuts will destroy schools, the Web site of the United Federation of Teachers marks the union's 50th anniversary by paying strange homage to a firebrand founder, Albert Shanker. It...
May 30, 2010 12:00 AMAnd so finally, the spit hits the fan. Now it's the assault against taxpayers that must get thrown under the bus. It will be crowded under there, if common sense is still common. We will find out as the November...
May 26, 2010 12:00 AMPresident Obama is the backward man. Teddy Roosevelt's advice to "speak softly and carry a big stick" was meant as a guide to successful foreign relations. Obama has completely muddled the message. He speaks softly...
May 23, 2010 12:00 AMHe's become the Godot of the Albany drama. Everybody is waiting for Andrew Cuomo. Will he be worth the wait? Will Cuomo bring the smarts and a bold reform agenda to a campaign to reverse New York state's relentless...
May 19, 2010 12:00 AM'Where's the mayor?" was the refrain when Mayor Bloomberg was a no-show after the Staten Island Ferry crash. It was the right question at the wrong time. Bloomberg was surely out of town last Saturday when the...
May 16, 2010 12:00 AM
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