Calvin Trillin

Verse Columnist

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

‘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

A Year Later, Little Change on Wall Street A Year Later, Little Change on Wall Street

Ode to a bailout.

Sep 16, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin

The Network Evening News Anchors Will Be Majority Women The Network Evening News Anchors Will Be Majority Women

This just in...

Sep 9, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Cheney Offers Sharp Defense of C.I.A. Interrogation Tactics Cheney Offers Sharp Defense of C.I.A. Interrogation Tactics

Again, Dick says that torture's good.

Sep 2, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin

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