Connecting.the.Dots

CNN interrupts graphic wall-to-wall coverage of the Casey Anthony child-murder trial to lecture Newsweek editor Tina Brown on a “revolting...

Barack Obama’s press conference ends up being an effort to put aside childish games and restore government to an adult level on national is...

A new month brings another GOP candidate as Rep. Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan arrives. He plays a star-spangled guitar, wants to repeal he...

Ballet comes to mind for what GOP divas as doing in the Hawkeye State, a new variation on the graceful duet in which dancers make their move...

As the President prepares to confront Mitch McConnell and John Boehner on the deficit, an irresistible image arrives for the absurdity of t...

As the GOP keeps trying to repeal health care reform, the White House is hiring comparison shoppers to call doctors’ offices and find out h...

From the current debate over whether a college education is worth the price in money and time for every American child, a memory seven deca...

Amid all the celebrating at the Stonewall Inn and elsewhere, the advent of same-sex marriage in New York stirs in the spouse and co-author ...

Barack Obama started the week playing golf with John Boehner a few days before going on TV to proclaim a foreseeable victory in the Middle E...

Her Magical Mystery Tour is on hold, Sarah Palin tells us, because “civic duty calls (like most everyone else, even former governors get ca...

The President’s remodeling in our Cash for Clunkers struggle reaches the salesroom with all the dings and dents of a ten-year-old lemon tha...

Reaction to the newest GOP 2012 entry is a symptom of how far the politics of paralysis has gone. Virtually unknown, Jon Huntsman Jr. causes...

No matter what the President announces tomorrow on Drawdown Day , nobody will be happy with his decision, especially if, in Obama tradition,...

The tone of the 2012 presidential campaign is reflected in that Volkswagen commercial showing an auto-shaped piñata being whacked at a kid’s...

In 1994, someone who looked and sounded like Mitt Romney declared, “I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. I have...

In his Weekly Address, the President talks personally, but his musings about fatherhood have deep political resonance. “I grew up without...

On the first day of the rest of his life, Anthony Weiner may take some comfort from the latest news about his role model in sexual misadven...

Now that the political air has been purified by Anthony Weiner’s departure , Washington can concentrate on its other endless fount of hypocr...

Three years ago, Barack Obama was campaigning against dumb wars while John McCain was musing about staying in Iraq a hundred years. Now Repu...

Introducing him to flog a new book, Stephen Colber t admiringly cites the days when Henry Kissinger chased women in his “Power is the ultima...