Connecting.the.Dots

Unlike JFK, Barack Obama's defining moment has arrived, not in the clarity of going eyeball-to-eyeball with a foreign power over nuclea...

In the brouhaha over a forthcoming movie by a conservative filmmaker, we are once again on the dark side of free speech, which the Supreme ...

The newest revelation of Iran's nuclear sneakiness echoes what the world faced in 1962 when the Soviets furtively put missiles into Cub...

Distilled from a half century of seeing Kennedys up close and reporting their history, feelings about today's mass in Boston prompt rene...

Forty years ago this weekend, two events marked the end of the Kennedy era--Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon , as JFK had promised, and h...

Robert S. McNamara , who died today at 93, was the exemplar of American know-how gone awry in a world too complicated for the practical mind...

If nothing else, this President is setting records for communication as he visits the Middle East to say a few words privately and publicly...

Two months have taken a toll on Barack Obama, who came into office offering change and is now promising persistence. He finished his news co...

A repeat of last year's toast to all the Irish eyes that have brightened my life: After President Kennedy was killed in 1963, Daniel Pat...

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

After being nominated for Commerce Secretary, it took the New Hampshire senator a week to decide not to ask what he could do for his country...

Yesterday notwithstanding, social change usually comes slowly in America--reflecting a double-edged inertia that can prolong an unfair statu...

Just when things were going well on her upstate tour comes the word that Harry Reid has been lobbying Gov. David Paterson to name Caroline...

News that she is interested in being appointed to Hillary Clinton's Senate seat is coming as a surprise to those who have always seen C...

In the face of change, the timeless Barbara Walters scores another "get" with an exclusive interview with the Obamas, in which th...

Much has changed since I worked in the Fame Factory as an editor, exploiting big names to sell magazines and, in the circular process, enlar...

It took JFK three months to stumble over the no-win Cuban invasion he inherited in 1961, but Barack Obama is in a deeper mess as he makes hi...

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...

Last night's debate showed a contrast between two men of different generations, speaking styles and body language. Tonight the TV screen...

After eight years of obstinate stupidity in the White House, the change voters should want most is a combination of common sense and common...