Connecting.the.Dots

Less than a year after he left the White House in 1953, Harry Truman gave a speech to the City College of New York alumni in a Manhattan hot...

The Bush era is closing on a downer. More than four out of five Americans, 81 percent, are unhappy with the way the country is going, the N...

The Central Government's surprise offensive against Shiite militias in Basra in the past week was (a) a bold move by Prime Minister Nou...

He knew he was going to die. Before Martin Luther King was shot and killed on the balcony of a Memphis motel forty years ago tomorrow, he we...

Below the radar of the subprime crisis and credit crunch are signs of distress in American media. ABC and CBS are cutting jobs, and Newswee...

If you can't beat them join them--or use them. That time-honored American strategy for dealing with threatening social change has been o...

They were playing politics with Cesar Chavez's birthday yesterday, Hillary Clinton issuing a statement praising him and Barack Obama try...

The Righteous Republican cosmeticians have started to work their magic and, as in the women's magazines I used to edit, a natural-lookin...

Next week, against a backdrop of cherry blossoms on the Potomac, we will get the latest Petraeus-Crocker production of "Blood and Sand...

As a charter member of what has been called the Church of Liebling , I have good news for fellow worshippers. Liebling's coverage of Wor...

As someone who has lived through and been involved in 15 Presidential contests in an adult lifetime, I'm ready to say "Uncle" ...

Disregard those crackling sounds up north and pictures of an ice shelf the size of Rhode Island breaking apart. It's just global warming...

The media hanging jury has pounced on Hillary Clinton's landing-in-Bosnia gaffe, with her biographer Carl Bernstein noting that William...

Rush Limbaugh won't be going to jail for encouraging Republican voters in Ohio to cross over and vote for Hillary Clinton in their prima...

Munitions merchants are not what they used to be. A century ago, in "Major Barbara," George Bernard Shaw gave us Andrew Undershaft...

Muqtada al Sadr is splintering the peace in Baghdad and Basra, militias are murdering and looting, but our toy soldier President is still o...

As dream tickets go, this one would go deep into the American unconscious and produce either a catharsis or a nightmare. Today's surpris...

If he had not been sidetracked in 2000 by the Bush-Rove smear machine , John McCain might have attracted enough Independents and so-called R...

Richard Widmark, who died today at 93, made his movie debut in 1947 as a giggling psychotic who pushed a woman in a wheelchair down a flight...

After her first primary victory, Hillary Clinton exulted, "Thank you so much, New Hampshire. I listened to you, and in the process I fo...