Connecting.the.Dots

In the spotlight this weekend--60 Minutes and the New York Times Magazine --and from now on no doubt a subject of study in journalism school...

The GOP ideological kitchen is being overrun by many cooks, including a pizza magnate presidential candidate and a chain that sells God-fea...

The year I was born, Charlie Chaplin filmed a classic scene in "The Gold Rush," boiling and eating his shoe while snowbound. This...

Authorship is the issue as the President is accused of State of the Union plagiarism, a McCain aide is unmasked for writing an anonymous nov...

In a word, the State of the Union is stupefied. The President, under pressure to rally a nation while placating a patchwork Congress, did ...

"We have met the enemy," the comic strip character said four decades ago, "and he is us," but a new generation of politi...

The story line is set: What George W. Bush tried to do by doubling down in Iraq, Barack Obama is accomplishing with a wave of empathic vigor...

Robert Sargent Shriver, a Kennedy by marriage and in spirit, died this week at the age of 95 just as Joseph Lieberman, 68 announces he is l...

Between the Tuscon speech and the State of the Union next week, there is the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's inaugural address t...

The dots connect between Sarah Palin's self-absorbed interview on the Tuscon shootings and the response of Lee Harvey Oswald's moth...

Out of respect for Tuscon victims, House Republicans have downgraded their designation of health care reform from "job-killing" t...

Martin Luther King always made it clear his mission was more than just passive resistance to evil. At the start of the Montgomery bus boyc...

Watching him has always been a guilty pleasure, like taking your id out to the park for a backed-up dump of anger and hostility, but Bill M...

Michelle Obama sat silently, a First Lady holding hands with an astronaut, two middle-aged people in the grip of grief and hope, as the Pres...

Whatever Barack Obama tells us about the State of the Union on January 25th, he showed us its heart in Tuscon last night. He came there to...

During my teens and early twenties, I fired weapons at people, who were often shooting back at me. It was not a pleasant experience but, a...

Verbal reactions should be almost as spent now as the bullets on the Safeway parking lot, but the fusillade of shooting mouths is heavier th...

Now comes insult added to social injury as the "news" starts to tell us every detail of the Tucson killer's sick life and wha...

Carrie Fisher defies genetics. How did this witty, wonderfully talented, albeit seriously troubled, woman emerge from the union of a lechero...

Words matter. In Arizona, the space between fingers on a computer keyboard and a deadly weapon suddenly collapses, killing six, including a...