Connecting.the.Dots

In the annals of sexual politics and odd couples, none could ever match the possibilities of mating Maureen Dowd and Rush Limbaugh, a power ...

In tonight's confrontation with Congress, Barack Obama will not be sweet-talking Republicans, who are locked into a long-term temper ta...

It's definitely not Stand By Your Man Month as Mark Sanford's wife and Bernard Madoff's mistress join Elizabeth Edwards in going...

That new soap opera, "The Sanfords of South Carolina" revives interest in a subject that intrigued me over decades of editing wome...

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

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

Making some amends for her newspaper's hyping yesterday, Maureen Dowd, bless her salty tongue, today pistol-whips Tim Geithner's b...

Never mind " Bonfire of the Vanities ," we are getting into tumbrels-and-guillotine territory here as the peasants rise up to over...

Has it only been a week? The "My Fair Lady" metaphor, footwear and all, comes full circle with Maureen Dowd's column today: ...

In the Democratic debates, Joe Biden famously dismissed Rudy Giuliani with: “There’s only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun and...

Cancel the conventions, call off the debates and go straight to the Election Night scoreboard to see how large McCain's margin of victor...

Day by day, Bill Clinton is inducing more nostalgia for Ronald Reagan, whose post-presidency was a dignified retreat into Alzheimer's an...

The pundits will have to go into rehab--the TV talking heads, newspaper columnists, the bloggers who have been overdosing on Obama-Clinton f...

After President Kennedy was killed in 1963, Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said, "To be Irish is to know that in the end the world wi...

Signs of social progress can come in strange disguises, as the first woman to run for Vice President embarrasses Hillary Clinton with asini...

Soon after he moved into the White House, Bill Clinton was tagged by Maureen Dowd as the first president who was still social-climbing. Afte...

How different would the American political landscape look today? The question is raised anew by the sight of the former President taking ove...

In her New York Times columns, Maureen Dowd has two recurring themes--the White House and the romantic woes of modern women. Today she brin...

Stephen Colbert, who is no Jon Stewart, is beginning to give irony a bad name. On Meet the Press yesterday he proved that (a) there is no w...

From the start, the biggest hazard for Barack Obama has been the inevitable “professionalization” of his campaign. Obama came on the scene l...