Connecting.the.Dots

After months of a bigger-than-life presidency, Barack Obama is being cut down to size--by the enormity of an economic crisis, by orchestrate...

The first time was 1948. I was 24 and had fought in a war, but the voting age was 21 then, and I cast my first ballot for Harry Truman, a ce...

As Barack Obama was promising voters "We're not going to let George Bush pass the torch to John McCain," the GOP candidate hi...

On 60 Minutes last night, he evoked another man who came to office promising to end an unpopular war and to restore confidence after the te...

A Republican star was born tonight, but Sarah Palin's success as a pit bull with lipstick, to use her own definition of a soccer mom, wa...

In an era of information and ideas moving at the speed of light, the rehabilitation has begun on both sides of the Atlantic. Over here, Davi...

"If many of Mrs. Clinton’s legions of female supporters believe she was undone even in part by gender discrimination," the New Yor...

Less than a year after he left the White House in 1953, Harry Truman gave a speech to the City College of New York alumni in a Manhattan hot...

She was an only child in the White House, a Daddy's girl if there ever was one. Harry Truman doted on her and, when the Washington Post ...

As New Hampshire prepares to vote, pundits are filing Clinton campaign death notices as confidently as they trumpeted her inevitability only...

This week, Presidential candidates who are trying to sell the future are involved with echoes from the past. Mitt Romney's Texas speech,...

"I veto, therefore I am" is the new theme of the Bush Administration. In 1948, Harry Truman got to stay in the White House by rail...

Political name recognition has gone Nutsy Fagin. This weekend the Washington Post has a disquisition on the power of the name “ Fred .” Ant...

The latest Presidential poll shows 63 percent of Americans think we will elect the first woman to be President next year. It’s time for Hil...

Today’s new approval rating shows President Bush at an all-time low, 26 percent. This figure , Newsweek reports, “puts Bush lower than Jimmy...