Connecting.the.Dots

As President, he was the boring guy at a party who explains everything but gets little, least of all his own failure to connect with people....

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...

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

As Bush 41 jumps from a plane to celebrate his 85th birthday, Jimmy Carter, a few months younger, parachutes into the Middle East with his ...

The flogging today of John Edwards in the public square, aka the New York Times , raises the question of what relevance marital fidelity ha...

It's not every day you get to write a sentence like this: As Keith Olbermann was making a pumpkin pie with Martha Stewart yesterday, the...

Three out of four Americans are depressed about the way things are going, according to a new CNN poll , the worst national malaise since 198...

As the new Gallup Poll shows him leading John McCain nationally by 49 to 40 per cent, there is the question . "Where's the Bounce?...

As President, he gave new meaning to the word "naïve." Now Jimmy Carter is outdoing himself wandering the Middle East to broker an...

William Kristol, who writes as if he were being paid by the word, today gives us a diary of his recent expense-account travels and reports ...

Is it time for Howard Dean to call in the party's Three Wise Men to build an ark and save the Democrats from a flood of Biblical proport...

Political chaos in Pakistan could bring nuclear headaches for the US, and what our government is doing to prop up a failing regime recalls ...

As if race and gender were not complications enough in this critical Presidential contest, we now have Bill Clinton stepping up to remind u...

His campaign chairman wanted to knock out Mitt Romney's teeth, but Mike Huckabee decided to turn the other cheek. Internal struggles are...

Fred Thompson may be onto something. Today's New York Times puzzles over his "sleepy, unconventional" approach to pursuing t...

The last survivor of the twentieth century's great brother act is writing his memoirs, fittingly for one of the largest advances of all ...

Joe Lieberman and Frank Rich agree about something: America is mentally ill. "We are a people in clinical depression," Rich writes...

The Presidential polls keep telling us Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani are “polarizing” voters. Even as they widen their leads by more tha...

David Brooks of the New York Times has discovered the former Arkansas governor in his column today. “He is a solid conservative who is bot...

Brace yourself, they’re unleashing Dick Cheney this week. He snarled a bit for CBS yesterday . Tonight he should be in full-throated mode on...