Connecting.the.Dots

History closed the books on John Edwards' tawdry career a year ago, but his long-suffering wife is adding a footnote to the story of t...

On the evidence of his press conference , our president of 100 days seems so right for this critical time that it tempts a secular humanist ...

Like other true Bush believers, the lawyer responsible for the torture memos turns out to be a hair-splitting pursuer of the abstract rathe...

The news today will be about Barack Obama's whirlwind energy steering the Ship of State for the first 100 days, but below the water line...

The Arlen Specter party switch today is the latest sign of an eight-year process--the shriveling of the Republican Party to a one-size-fits...

She is something new in the White House. Take it from someone who has met and known First Ladies over five decades, from Mamie Eisenhower on...

As the Drudge Report hyperventilates with 18 headline links about swine flu, President Obama tells Americans the outbreak is "not a c...

As the furor over AIG bonuses fades, Paul Krugman today points to a real outrage: "pay at investment banks, after dipping last year, i...

As good newspapers die across the country, Rupert Murdoch is keeping alive one of the worst, the New York Post , to publish such gems as thi...

As the legislative battle begins to get medical attention for millions, Senate Republicans are stalling Kathleen Sebelius' confirmation...

Pakistan is looking like Cuba in the 1950s and Iran in the '70s as armed zealots start to take over a country without the will to resist...

The continuing national debate is getting more and more self-righteous as Americans look for absolutes in a world of moral murk. Dick Cheney...

Barack Obama escapes the White House again. turning up today at an Iowa wind-turbine plant to tout his energy and climate-change plans whil...

Life after the White House is always problematic for former occupants. Jimmy Carter devoted himself to hammering up houses for poor people a...

"Obama is positioning the Democrats as the party of order, responsibility and small-town values," David Brooks writes in the New Y...

With a goal of passing legislation by June, Congress is getting serious about health care reform, and advocates of change are more nervous ...

With less lending now by TARP recipients since getting taxpayer money, the Obama economic team is letting it be known that a slow-motion ta...

Lyndon Johnson's appraisal of Richard Nixon comes to mind in the growing debate about President Obama's toughness or lack thereof. ...

She has become a stereotypical figure--loved or reviled, depending on the beholder's politics--but the other day, for a brief moment, Sa...

The lawyers wrote the torture memos, but the medical profession was there to implement them. According to the Washington Post , "docum...