Connecting.the.Dots

Rudy Giuliani must be hearing footsteps. With John McCain fading, actor-former Senator Fred Thompson has moved up to second billing in the ...

What Congress, commissions and candidates have been unable to do might be done by one American, David Howell Petraeus. He could end the war ...

Nappy-headed hos. Nappy-headed hos. Nappy-headed hos. Nappy-headed hos. That's how many times Al Sharpton (three) and Bill Maher (once) ...

You can’t beat Bush’s culture warriors for optimism. Even as a study shows “Abstinence Classes Don’t Stop Sex,” the director finds a silver...

Will members of the Inter-Media Division please come to order? Our agenda today is a mild beef by Joe Klein of Time against high-school cl...

Democrats are contracting Bush-Rove Disease, a condition that causes victims to repeat compulsively the same phrases, no matter how inane, o...

It never goes away--the political tension between the art of the possible and impossible dreams of what would be ideal. Ideally we all want...

Is there “ a term describing a period of nonstop, vicious verbal attacks directed at a particular person or group that is communicated thro...

Anyone who reads women's magazines (or edits them, as I have) could tell you that love and work are a volatile mixture. But apparently t...

After serving most of his time playing a road-company Winston Churchill to George Bush's impersonation of a wartime leader like FDR, Ton...

This morning's news of a suicide attack on the Iraqi parliament, killing eight people, including a Shiite and a Sunni lawmaker, undersc...

Now that morning TV has been freed of Imus in less time than it took to topple Saddam Hussein, we can try to assess what happened. In the en...

It's rare that anyone has to apologize to President Bush these days, but... Unaware that the CEO of Ford is a moron, I was among those w...

Last fall Bob Woodward reported George Bush as saying about Iraq, "I will not withdraw even if even Barney and Laura are the only ones...

In the 1970s, Katharine Meyer Graham was a hero of American journalism as she took the heat for the Washington Post ’s exposure of Watergate...

Talk about cheating, today's Washington infamy centers on the State Department's low-balling of the crowds protesting our presence ...

Yesterday it was Saddam Hussein. Today it’s Katie Couric. Will this mania for originality ever end? After yesterday’s post on plagiarism, t...

The schoolyard fight over war funding has gone on long enough. It’s time for the sound-biting between the White House and Congress to stop. ...

Before the Internet, the definition of plagiarism was simple. Take stuff from a lot of sources, it’s research. Lift from one and it’s illega...

After careful study of the past 24 hours of cable news, herewith an all-in-one solution to the world's most pressing problems: Send Don ...