Connecting.the.Dots

For the oldest of us, the Evening News died yesterday, the "most trusted man in America" who came into our living rooms every week...

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...

The writer-critic-editor who died today was a gifted man who never seemed to fit into categories. It started when he was a teenager and app...

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

Memo to disaffected Clinton Democrats arriving in Denver: Forty years ago at the convention in Chicago, as a delegate supporting anti-war ca...

Forty years ago tonight, hours before Robert Kennedy was killed, I was campaigning as a Eugene McCarthy delegate to the 1968 Democratic conv...

The race and gender issues that haunt this year's campaigns were embodied by one person who ran for the Democratic Presidential nominat...

“Certain friendships,” Robert Redford once said about Paul Newman, “are too good and too strong to talk about.” This month, Redford broke hi...

"My mother," Lynda Bird Johnson once told me, "thinks well of everybody. She's even sure the Devil's been maligned. J...

Judging from the caricature illustrating her “Shenaningans” space on Politico, Anne Schroeder is an attractive young person whose blog “shif...