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.
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 AMThe showdown in Albany over furloughs creates a dilemma: deciding which group is more destructive, the greedy unions or the craven legislators who support them. Let's call it a tie, because neither cares about...
May 12, 2010 12:00 AMONE of the most troubling tics of Team Obama is the frantic rush to de clare that every terror attack on American soil is carried out by an isolated individual with no connection to al Qaeda or other groups. It was the...
May 09, 2010 12:00 AMThe worst that can be said about top state Senate Democrats who joined Republicans to more than double the cap on charter schools is that they did it to save themselves from angry voters. That's not so bad. In fact...
May 05, 2010 12:00 AMFirst came the government's civil-fraud charges against Goldman Sachs just as the White House was pushing a bank overhaul. Next came the show trial of Goldman execs being harangued by congressional know-nothings....
May 02, 2010 12:00 AMMove over, Lou Gehrig. Andrew Cuomo is now "the luckiest man on the face of the earth." His luck consists in having brickbats thrown at him by two of the biggest bums ever to play in Albany. If you can judge a man...
April 28, 2010 12:00 AMHere's a flip-flop worth applauding. President Obama looks to be dropping his failed hard-line policy toward Israel and is moving closer to the position he inherited from President Bush. Some Jewish leaders believe...
April 25, 2010 12:00 AMLocation, location, location was the big drama in President Obama's speech yesterday. Taking on the banks in the shadow of Wall Street offered the promise of a showdown, especially with Goldman Sachs honchos and...
April 23, 2010 12:00 AMWelcome to New York, Mr. President. Now go home and leave us alone. Please. When he brings his war against Wall Street here tomorrow, Barack Obama isn't coming to praise Gotham. He's coming to bury us. We're...
April 21, 2010 12:00 AMThe first e-mail comes from a frequent writer, typos and all. "U try to make 'our' president a pro muslim, when your 'Jewish' nation is the cause of most of our problems. Your PM is nothing more than a terrorist,...
April 18, 2010 12:00 AMIf insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, then New York City is certifiably crazy. Already facing a $5 billion budget gap, unemployment above 10 percent, an ominous spike...
April 14, 2010 12:00 AM
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