Connecting.the.Dots

Dear Mr. Secretary: If anyone deserves a better year than 2006, it’s you. As someone who once lost a top job, I feel your pain. The calendar...

The New York Times reports “brain calisthenics” keep the elderly from losing their minds, but can anything be done for younger people in the...

From beyond the grave, Gerald Ford now tells us he thought the war in Iraq was "a big mistake." Why didn't he speak out three ...

When Richard Nixon resigned, the American people would have been happy to see the Oval Office vacant for a while. A pleasant, well-meaning m...

As Al Gore faces his final years in the White House, history will view his two terms as disappointing. After a razor-thin victory over Georg...

Picture Martha Stewart, Rosie O’Donnell and Donald Trump in the middle of an ocean. I once invented a game for my media friends: Name three ...

President Kennedy’s White House doctor, Janet Travell, who put him in a rocking chair and kept him from being bed-ridden, spent a long caree...

One thing about Newt Gingrich: He’s never dull. After shutting down the government in 1995, impeaching Bill Clinton for office sex while car...

At his press conference Bush is asked “if this has been a time of painful realization for you...that some of the policies you hoped would su...

Thirty five years ago, McCalls Magazine ran a cover with a Mylar mirror and the line, "The Woman of the Year is You." We had a hel...

A New England Journal of Medicine report shows many doctors perform colonoscopies, spend less than six minutes and fail to find potentially ...

Meeting Tom Vilsack is a reminder of how degraded American politics has become. Start with his name. When the Iowa governor declared for Pre...

Dear Ralph: Haven’t heard much from you lately, but happy to see you are alive and well, working to “preserve the safety and quality of life...

Half a century ago, at the dawn of TV and before the Web, change was sluggish. It took years for new ideas and new people to grab the public...

One of Adolf Hitler’s last orders before his death in April 1945 was to hang a 39-year-old minister named Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer ha...

There has always been one sure bet in American politics: No Mayor of New York can get to the White House. The charismatic John Lindsay was s...

Sixty-five years ago today, the world changed. I was in a hospital next to a young man with a dazed grin, staring through a picture window a...

So it has come to this: At 11 A.M. Wednesday, the Iraq Study Group will post its report on four web sites, James Baker and Lee Hamilton will...

President Bush says American troops will stay in Iraq “until the job is complete” and there will be no “graceful exit.” His certitude is app...

A stranger sees a farmer struggling with a mule that refuses to move, says, “Let me reason with him” and bashes a plank over the mule’s head...