Connecting.the.Dots

As a legendary woman of the last century turns 85 tomorrow, there are echoes of a Marilyn-like media frenzy in the hide-and-seek game being...

The parades, flags and mass prayers are meant to honor men and women who died nobly for their country, but they also commemorate the barbari...

He would have turned 100 this weekend, but Hubert Humphrey is a forgotten figure--a hero of the Civil Rights era, V.P. of the U.S. and yet,...

Republicans are doing more than try to win elections next year. In both presidential primaries and Congress, they are undermining the kind o...

It’s only his second campaign for president but Mitt Romney seems to have been running forever, like that battery-powered toy in the class...

The world didn’t end last weekend as predicted, but tornadoes have made the middle of America look as if it did. Devastation fills TV screen...

In these Alice-in-Wonderland days, occasional signs of sanity emerge, such as the Democratic victory in a traditionally Republican upstate...

Even as GOP hopefuls make pilgrimages for a blessing by President 41, the sound of a distant groundswell can be heard for a possible Bush 4...

It’s getting harder to coopt reality for entertainment. Columnist Ross Douthat proposes a Dominique Strauss-Kahn epic—“one of those sprawli...

Never mind men in outer space or those slogging in Middle East mud, media attention is on a horny old Frenchman in Manhattan detention, a f...

Tea Party Republican primaries are headed toward their logical conclusion. With Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana bowing out and Pizza Man Herm...

When did certainty become the air we breathe? Where did ambivalence and ambiguity go? Why is everybody so sure of everything in an era that ...

Score one more for the Law of Unintended Consequences. In 2008, voters hungry for new ideas chose Hope and Change. What they have now is an...

In World War II, U boats would send up wreckage to the surface to make pursuers think they had been sunk. The GOP presidential campaign is a...

With Trump out, the GOP Blowhard title goes to Newt Gingrich hands down. Already this week he has “slammed the Republican Medicare propos...

With all the Schwarzegger gabble about why powerful men cheat, their wives are dismissed with clucking sympathy and respectful silence. Ma...

Two presidential campaigns crash in one day and, ho hum, what else is new? The Donald folds a flirtation with the 2012 Republican nominati...

An editor, goes an old journalism bromide, separates wheat from chaff and prints the chaff. The biggest chaff-maker on the Internet, accor...

Mike Huckabee’s decision not to run clarifies the career choice picture between Fox News and the White House. “All the factors say go,” Hu...

The computer gods have been frowning here, subjecting an ancient, temporarily one-eyed blogger to the wrath of Microsoft, Dell, the Geek Squ...