Connecting.the.Dots

He has been gone now longer than he lived. On this day 47 years ago, John F. Kennedy was killed at 44, and November 22nd has been a heartsic...

Nora Ephron and I met cute. On the first day Lynda Bird Johnson came to work for me at McCalls in 1966, I found Ephron, a reporter for the N...

Jay Rockefeller, Jon Stewart, Alexis de Tocqueville and my teenage grandson combine to provoke second thoughts about the First Amendment. ...

In her alternate universe, the kickoff of Sarah Palin's presidential campaign makes perfect sense: After backstage triumphs in the midte...

The Washington climate recalls V-E Day in World War II: hours before the armistice, hordes of refugees streaming westward to the American zo...

How much more blood and how many more billions will America pour into a senseless enterprise as it enters its tenth year with the threadbare...

They haven't packed the moving vans yet, but new members of Congress are starting to feel pressure to split the GOP apart. This weeken...

Memo to presidential bashers of the progressive persuasion: Chill. A verbal assault from the Left recalls what Lyndon Johnson would snarl ...

George W. Bush tells Oprah this week that alcohol was ruining his family life, so after getting "drunk as a skunk" on his 40th bi...

A time that always calls up love of country and pride in a member of the so-called "The Greatest Generation" is overlaid today wit...

Political sex scandals have expiration dates now. Eliot Spitzer, who resigned as New York Governor in 2008 for consorting with a call girl...

On November 9, 1960, Americans woke up and had to wait until afternoon for Nixon to concede a close presidential election to Kennedy the day...

Two weeks of media melodrama bracket a tumultuous election that shook up American politics, putting a spotlight on the people who presumably...

If future generations want to know what life was like for smart, sensitive urban women in the 1970s, a time capsule should be stocked with t...

The angry anchorman in the 1976 movie gets high ratings for a while and, when they drop, network honchos have him killed on camera. As the...

Suspension by MSNBC of Keith Olbermann today recalls his appearance two years ago with Martha Stewart discussing a video of Sarah Palin pa...

Democrats took a shellacking, but the big loser was the Untied (no typo) States of America, with the electoral map now looking like a big re...

In a disastrous night for Democrats, only the Momma Grizzlies provided some solace, helping them hold on to the Senate. If the GOP had nomi...

Just half a century after an election that put him into the White House with John F. Kennedy for a memorable thousand days, Ted Sorensen ha...

At one point, the Stewart-Colbert crowd was urged to jump up in unison to get a seismic reading (no luck), recalling the day in 1967 when V...