Connecting.the.Dots

At 92, best-known now as Michael Douglas' father and Catherine Zeta-Jones' father-in-law, a movie legend is taking "an audit of...

In memory of my late father’s birthday today I am reposting several blogs he wrote in 2011 on Trump’s flirtation with running for President....

My father Robert Stein passed away Wednesday morning July 9th at my Connecticut home under hospice care from kidney issues related to his s...

A college student is the most fascinating character in Michael Lewis’ new book claiming the US stock market is “rigged” by computers trading...

Endless fascination with the Malaysian airliner goes on, rippling out to TV commercials unseen now for decades: courses for those afraid to ...

Bill Maher targeted two right-wing Congressmen for defeat this weekend , but the candidate he really nailed was in a spoof on a potential GO...

After 80, we all become MDs with one patient. Most waking hours are spent on medical appointments, taking pills, checking out symptoms—-in s...

A building explodes in Harlem , leaving four dead so badly burned they cannot be identified, but we know they are not white. At the sam...

On March 4, 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated. It was my ninth birthday. In April 1945, I was a 21-year-old foot soldier ...

I started watching “House of Cards” Season 2 in a perfect setting: A sleepless night of hoof-and-mouth pain from big-toe surgery and a gum i...

Program note: Chris Cuomo’s extended sitdown with George Zimmerman will air tomorrow instead of Tuesday as planned. Cynical observers ...

Cable news crawls about the worst storm ever are as accurate as their political hyberbole, that is not at all, at least for New York and its...

The woman who died today at 85 takes with her a world that is unimaginable today. Shirley Temple became a movie star at three, won an Oscar...

The actor who died yesterday gave me an experience I have had only twice on screen—-coming face to face with the reincarnation of a close f...

Monsters can create great art, but how should we feel about them? In Woody Allen’s case, make that facile popular art, but the question rema...

GOP white coats are thisclose to getting it right. Previous prototypes like Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann blew up after leaving the launc...

After building the most powerful nation on earth by welcoming those around the world who want a better and freer life, a significant number ...

Perhaps the sharpest commentary was a repeated cutaway to John McCain smirking as the President went through a laundry list of ways to impro...

In very old age, stories haunt you, not necessarily your own. Some have such a wild resonance with your inner life they demand to be told. ...

Mediawise, running a state used to be a boring job. Mostly signing papers and posing at the opening of small town rec centers. But no more. ...