Maureen Dowd is a prominent — if sometimes controversial — voice in American politics and culture. A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, she has been writing opinion columns and feature articles for the New York Times since 1995. Some of her favorites are collected in Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk (2004) and Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide (2005). This op-ed piece originally appeared in the New York Times in 2010.

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