Connecting.the.Dots

The Republicans have caught him flip-flopping . “How can Barack Obama," asks a National Committee spokesman, "claim to have a cons...

It worked before the 2002 elections, so why not now? George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, the lame ducks that roar, are ready. So is John McCain....

This week the President of Iran was strutting around his nation's main uranium enrichment facility, claiming installation of 6,000 new ...

As most thinking Americans breathe a sigh of relief over the NIE report on Iran, John Bolton on the editorial page of the Washington Post ,...

Yesterday's news about Iran's nuclear weapons or, more accurately, lack thereof is an event that recalls Winston Churchill's de...

Oops. "A new assessment by American intelligence agencies concludes that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that the p...

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

We're in recurring nightmare territory here. Today's Zogby poll shows more than half of voters would support a military strike to ...

Tonight's Democratic debate could be critical to his chances of catching up, but Barack Obama will be caught between a rock, Hillary Cli...

Half a century after a book inspired President Eisenhower to warn about political fanatics, Americans have one in the White House and anothe...

The party that could win the White House and extend its majorities in both houses of Congress next year is in disarray. In confronting a Pre...

The man with the white walrus mustache is back in Washington after a European tour of touting war with Iran . He has a new book to promote a...

If the war in Iraq and the ’08 election campaign were TV series, they would have been canceled by now. Both have been running too long and h...

The presidents of Iran and Columbia University colluded today to call attention to themselves with an unprecedented mockery of free thought ...

When George Bush goes literally dumb, something must be afoot. At yesterday’s news conference, he talked about Iraq, Iran and North Korea, b...

When the 2004 Presidential candidate announced his support for Hillary Clinton this month, Gen. Wesley Clark seemed destined to become a Cab...

Now that the Petraeus Show has left town, Washington is in limbo and likely to stay there for some time. Democrats don’t have the votes to, ...

In the prolixity of Gen. Petraeus this week, there is a curious emphasis on the entity, “Al-Qaeda Iraq,” which, of course, did not exist unt...

The Pentagon has plans for massive air strikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians’ military capability in t...