columnist

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Attitude Towards Press: The gossip columnist Earl Wilson once teased Parker: “There’s a rumor, Colonel, that if Elvis ever gets married, you’re going to have it in the Hollywood Bowl and sell tickets.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 28, 2026

"Compared with Keir Starmer, he's the king of bants," says the paper's columnist Tim Stanley.

From BBC • Jun. 23, 2026

SpaceX’s IPO is part of a rush of stock issuance that should raise serious red flags even among those who dismiss elevated valuations, columnist James Mackintosh writes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 21, 2026

“She spent 30 years building relationships that matter with voters,” David Farmer, a Maine Democratic strategist and columnist, told me.

From Slate • Jun. 16, 2026

“We look like fools to our friends,” wrote a New York Times columnist, “rascals to our enemies and incompetents to the rest.”

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin