Connecting.the.Dots

Devout florists will no longer be coerced into providing their services for the nuptials of same-sex couples if a new law being proposed in...

FDR gave Americans fireside chats on radio. JFK came into living rooms through live TV news conferences. Barack Obama is connecting with wor...

No First Lady since Jacqueline Kennedy has caught the American imagination so quickly that, after only six weeks, there are early signs of m...

Good old American free-enterprise vultures may be trumping Obama's Treasury theorists in slowing down the rate of mortgage defaults. Ins...

If Spy Magazine had survived the Clinton era, its satire would have had a hard time competing with the news. What would the political prank...

On a day dominated by news of falling retail sales and a diving stock market, the President held a pep rally for health care . He told 150 m...

Hearty laughs are so scarce these days that political observers should be grateful for news that John Boehner has ordered his House pygmies ...

In all the hooha between Michael Steele and Rush Limbaugh, the GOP is overlooking the fact that, by long tradition, John McCain is the titu...

As John McCain rails like King Lear , Barack Obama is doing Scarlett O'Hara ("I'll think about that tomorrow") over Congre...

For over two years, David Brooks has been torturing himself--and us--over his infatuation with Barack Obama and the nagging conservative con...

News about a "diplomatic" exchange between the US and Russia over an anti-missile system in Europe and Iran's pursuit of WMDs...

Rod Blagojevich is outdoing Chicago hog merchants famous for marketing every part of the pig but the squeal by signing a book contract for ...

The Bush family consigliere wants to make American banks an offer they can't refuse. Writing in the Financial Times , James Baker advoc...

How did we get so poor so fast? Under the radar of stimulus bills and bailouts, economists are toting up the damage and super-investors like...

But enough of reality, let's spend some quality time in Republican Fantasyland, where Barack Obama has a 4 percent approval rating and R...

This week Barack Obama became who he is going to be for the next four years. Amid a flurry of crucial decisions on the economy and foreign p...

The President's Saturday morning address is far from sweetness and light today, featuring a challenge to health insurers, banks, oil co...

Not everything is Change in the new Washington. When Attorney General Eric Holder had the temerity to mention gun control the other day, Na...

The decision to keep up to 50,000 American troops in Iraq after August of next year underscores the need for extreme caution in escalating ...

Among other Change that Barack Obama advocates is a return to civility in American politics, but this week the media and the politicians who...