Connecting.the.Dots

Campaign attacks on Barack Obama and his crew as latte-drinking elitists are finally coming into play in their war of words with Rupert Mur...

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...

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...

Sarah Palin, who has yet to Meet the Press or Face the Nation, showed up on Saturday Night Live tonight minutes before Oliver Stone rose fr...

He is outdoing the 1960 Richard Nixon, of whom John F. Kennedy said, "It must be hard getting up every morning and having to decide who...

In the first recorded case of political pre-cognition, Sarah Palin is refusing to cooperate in the Troopergate case on the grounds that Oba...

In the face of impeachment, Pervez Musharraf is resigning as president of Pakistan, sounding eerily like Richard Nixon almost 34 years ago ...

In his weekend of "confession," there are echoes of Richard Nixon's ploy of "modified limited hangout" during the Wa...

Wise old heads are urging Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to cool it from here to November. In a New York Times OpEd, George McGovern reca...

Paul Krugman has been on Barack Obama's case for weeks, criticizing him over Social Security and health care, but in today's New Yor...

In the desperation to be rid of Bush, this has become a year of imagery shorthand. While any Republican with a pulse claims to be another Re...

The new politics can take a leaf from the very old tomorrow night at the 21st Democratic debate. Just as Richard Nixon saved his vice-presid...

For anyone over 50, tomorrow will be not only Thanksgiving but the day JFK died 44 years ago. He has been gone now for almost as long as he ...

This week, when Arthur Bremer was released after 35 years in prison, it barely made the news, another irony in his long, fruitless search f...

Suddenly we are back in the 1960s with Hillary Clinton citing virtues for what she did back then, Barack Obama claiming he is of a new gener...

The man who gave a voice to unheard Americans is speaking up today against illegal listening in on them. In a New York Times Op Ed, 95-year...

Last night Bill Maher interviewed the ghost of David Frost and brought back a rush of memories about Richard Nixon, the 1970s' president...

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...

Dick Cavett, the best celebrity interviewer of the 1970s, just can’t let go of Richard Nixon. On his wonderful New York Times blog, the las...