Margaret Thorne

Margaret Thorne has been writing opinion columns for three decades, and in her own telling, she is the only person left who will say what everyone else is too cowardly to say. A former political staffer turned full-time contrarian, Margaret has built a devoted readership by positioning herself against whatever she perceives the mainstream to be — a position she updates with impressive agility. Her columns open with a rhetorical question, pivot to a personal anecdote involving someone she met at a dinner party, and close with a warning about the direction the country is heading. She is always just asking questions.