Connecting.the.Dots

The people at PBS have a twisted sense of humor, pairing for a Wikileaks deep-dish discussion Zbigniew Brzezinski , who helped Jimmy Carter...

TSA screenings pale in comparison to what Wikileaks has just done to Americans--and with less justification. Airport body searches are mean...

The sting that led a Somali-born youth to set off a fake bomb in Oregon underlines simmering questions about the FBI role in fighting domes...

How much reality does a President need? As Barack Obama nurses an upper lip with 12 stitches from a flying elbow in a basketball scrimmage,...

From years of editing women's magazines and tasting test-kitchen results thereof, herewith a way with leftover turkey that will keep you...

At 46, she had a premature senior moment the other day, referring to our "North Korean allies" on Fox TV. No big deal, but Sarah P...

"Hiccups," says the Mayo Clinic, "may result from a large meal, alcoholic beverages or sudden excitement," which makes t...

So this is where we are now. As Americans travel to join their families, they can be grateful that, unlike holiday turkeys, they will not un...

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...