Connecting.the.Dots

The Nobel Peace Prize for Barack Obama comes as a stunning reminder for those who elected him less than a year ago of what they expected wh...

John McCain, who relaxed during last year's campaign by improvising a " Bomb Iran " ditty, is back to lead a Republican chorus...

As the Great Communicator is canonized with a new statue in Washington, his 21st century counterpart is in Germany dealing with the same th...

Approaching her 88th birthday, the former First Lady ventures an opinion on Barack Obama: Sometimes he isn't political enough. Intervie...

With a decade of rehearsal, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have their act down pat--the regular guy who never raises his voice and his hair-...

Lyndon Johnson's appraisal of Richard Nixon comes to mind in the growing debate about President Obama's toughness or lack thereof. ...

The First Couple is out in the real world this week, the President sympathizing with people who have lost their jobs in California and sche...

FDR gave Americans fireside chats on radio. JFK came into living rooms through live TV news conferences. Barack Obama is connecting with wor...

In all the hooha between Michael Steele and Rush Limbaugh, the GOP is overlooking the fact that, by long tradition, John McCain is the titu...

As John McCain rails like King Lear , Barack Obama is doing Scarlett O'Hara ("I'll think about that tomorrow") over Congre...

The "Axis of Evil" man has found his soul mate. Michael Gerson, George W. Bush's oratorical muse, is now in love with Bobby Ji...

By my count, Barack Obama kissed at least two dozen women on his way in and out of the House last night, but the affectionate post-speech hi...

At the White House today, the President made it clear that his Inaugural message to Muslims "on the wrong side of history"--that ...

The very word cuts both ways--meaning true trust and also deception, as in "confidence game." But the added layer of irony for Bar...

My parents were white shopkeepers in the black ghetto of Harlem, living in back of a small store, selling things to people even poorer than ...

They came to Washington this evening after their Inaugural rail journey and got into a limo surrounded by security in an otherwise deserted...

Over two years and 2000 posts ago, George W. Bush made a blogger out of me. I was coasting along in octogenarian ease, writing an occasional...

Whatever else 2008 was, it was not a slow news year: the longest election campaign ever, a worldwide economic meltdown, natural disasters, s...

Those years are like bookends to our times, when one period of American life ended and another began. After Democrats held the White House f...

Barack Obama's to-do list just keeps growing as aides tell us he is "closely monitoring" the Gaza crisis even as they keep re...