Connecting.the.Dots

Advanced age has its privileges, one of them to fantasize publicly about asking out a married woman without fear of being beaten up for it. ...

Generosity, a fading trait these days, comes back in the holiday season, with the revival of a tradition started by the late Al Weigel, who ...

Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Jon Stewart. In a 30-paragraph " news analysis ," the New York Times puts the Daily Show host ...

At the turn of a millennium, the odometer of our lives clicked into years with more than one zero in them, setting off a decade of losses: ...

Christmas always recalls Eric Sevareid , one of the 20th century's best journalists and a writer with gifts far beyond reporting the new...

'Twas the night before Christmas all through a House Not a Speaker was stirring, not even the souse ; The Census was hung by the ch...

Sanity has thrown a Hail-Mary pass to close out the year with a surprise upset in the lame-duck Congress, and the heroes are moderate Repub...

What would it be like to remember everything that happened to you in detail over the years? This science-fiction premise comes to life on 60...

As Congress inches toward allowing gay men and women to die openly for their country, the history of American bigotry comes back to an octo...

If truth is the first casualty of war, the GOP assault on Obama has produced what a Pulitzer-Prize-winning fact check site calls " The ...

With the death of Bob Feller at 92, another reminder of America's glory days fades away. Not only was he one of the best pitchers in ...

If anger is the source of all humor, in his last Daily Show of the year , Jon Stewart pulled back the curtain, skipped the jokes and showed ...

As another equivocating report on Afghanistan emerges, a new poll shows the conflict has reached depths of public disapproval seen only in...

During this worst year in memory, Americans failed Barack Obama as much as he disappointed us and, for the nation's future, the best pre...

Jon Stewart and President Eisenhower make an odd couple, but they have a similar message for today's politicians. As the Daily Show ho...

Presidential succession changes next month and Washington, obsessed as always with power, is trying to get a handle on who's waiting in ...

Casting for a 21st century take on "A Christmas Carol" is coming along nicely. Julian Assange, the Scrooge who doesn't hoard b...

Americans' remote controls morph into time machines as they change channels to find Bill Clinton at the White House podium holding fort...

Four years and 2700 posts ago, this blog imagined that the 2000 election had turned out differently and offered a tongue-in-cheek critique o...

The tax deal is virtually done but the piquant side effect is how quickly an abject surrender has been converted into a "second stimul...