Connecting.the.Dots

In most elections, politicians pump up small differences into "issues" to distinguish themselves from the other guys. That won...

On the day of the Royal Wedding , memories of odd doings during the groom's toddler days with his fabled mother: In the 1980s, a women...

As the President makes Birther jokes to Oprah ("I was there") and at fundraisers , the next stage of the media cycle begins: payba...

Those who want to protect America from a Commander-in-Chief of questionable citizenship are getting ahead of themselves by putting all their...

Anderson Cooper, who was pushed around by a Cairo crowd earlier this year, takes a verbal mauling while trying to interrupt Donald Trump...

In this season of renewal, the American spirit is still bleak, but there are small signs of brightness ahead. New polls show a " dour...

Billy Graham's son and successor says the Donald may be his "candidate of choice" for the Presidency, stirring memories of ho...

Somehow we got this thing backward. When I was studying history, the British controlled one-quarter of the world's land mass and its peo...

"History repeats itself," said the father of Communism, "first as tragedy, then as farce." He foresaw what's going o...

During serial interviews with local TV, the President is caught showing frustration with an aggressive Texas reporter who pushes hard about...

The Standard&Poor's warning on U. S. debt is being treated as Holy Writ, driving markets down and inspiring Chicken Little clucking...

The noise level, as always, is high but whispers of sanity can be heard. "What leaders don’t want to replicate," blogs New York ...

Dr. Rand Paul , who months ago was checking out patients' eyes, is on TV proposing to cut off the Federal budget at the knees. Sarah P...

In a fascinating new book, TV journalist Jeff Greenfield imagines alternate history in the past century--a 1960 assassination of President-...

As if Tax Day weren't painful enough, it brings the premiere of "Atlas Shrugged: Part I," a film 50 years in the making that, ...

Don't bother to send in the clowns, they're here (see the 2012 GOP hopefuls), but it's those in Congress who are armed and dange...

The President proclaims Equal Pay Day "to recognize the full value of women's skills and...acknowledge the injustice of wage discr...

Like the smart kid beset by schoolyard bullies, Barack Obama is turning to wonkish jocks for protection. Leaks from The Speech reveal he w...

The familiar pattern emerges: Aides spin a preview , he delivers an admirable speech, nothing changes. How did Barack Obama morph from an ...

How can you satirize someone who does it himself every day? Today's Trumpery is a letter to the New York Times attacking columnist G...