Calvin Trillin

Verse Columnist

Calvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”

Wing Nut Ex Machina Wing Nut Ex Machina

The ace that the Democrats have in their deck.

Nov 24, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin

On CEO Lloyd Blankfein’s Statement That Goldman Sachs Is ‘Doing God’s Work’ On CEO Lloyd Blankfein’s Statement That Goldman Sachs Is ‘Doing God’s Work’

The Lord has got an itch to see these folks filthy rich.

Nov 18, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Senator Joe Lieberman and the Public Option Senator Joe Lieberman and the Public Option

He'll work to make a filibuster stick.

Nov 11, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin

‘G.O.P. Candidate, Pushed By Right, Ends Upstate Bid’ ‘G.O.P. Candidate, Pushed By Right, Ends Upstate Bid’

Dede Scozzafava, high achiever, was not a zealous true believer.

Nov 4, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin

‘U.S. Will Order Pay Cuts at Firms With Bailout Aid’ ‘U.S. Will Order Pay Cuts at Firms With Bailout Aid’

The Wall Street types consider this unfair--they say they earned their money fair and square.

Oct 28, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin

China Policy China Policy

Going along when China's rotten...

Oct 21, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Three Possible Explanations From the Nobel Committee Three Possible Explanations From the Nobel Committee

They have some justifying to do.

Oct 14, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin

What Whoopi Goldberg (‘Not a Rape-Rape’), Harvey Weinstein (‘So-Called Crime’) et al. Are Saying in Their Outrage Over the Arrest of Roman Polanski What Whoopi Goldberg (‘Not a Rape-Rape’), Harvey Weinstein (‘So-Called Crime’) et al. Are Saying in Their Outrage Over the Arrest of Roman Polanski

He's been punished for this lapse--exiled for decades from LA!

Oct 7, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Thoughts of a UN Delegate as Qaddafi’s Speech, Slotted for Fifteen Minutes, Approaches An Hour and a Half Thoughts of a UN Delegate as Qaddafi’s Speech, Slotted for Fifteen Minutes, Approaches An Hour and a Half

This Muammar is truly loony.

Sep 30, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin

A Grand Jury Investigates John Edwards A Grand Jury Investigates John Edwards

He's got some explaining to do.

Sep 23, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin

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