Connecting.the.Dots

Today’s subject is how complicated it is to be a good person in today’s world. David Brooks offers deep-think about the “empathy craze,”...

Osama bin Laden used to brag about making Americans so paranoid about terror attacks that just raising an al Qaeda flag would panic us into ...

As Chris Christie dithers at stage left, the candidate-filing curtain is coming down on Republicans with no one but Mitt Romney and hapless...

As deadlines near for filing to get on the ballot, the most peculiar Republican candidate of them all is running (or not) true to form-—in a...

A pitiful Wall Street parody of 1960s populist protests is a reminder of what has changed in American life over half a century. The hippie ...

Trump, Bachmann, Perry...and, on the horizon, Chris Christie . Republicans are using up frontrunners like disposable tissues, evoking a pers...

Elizabeth Warren, 62 and Michele Bachmann, 55 are American women of the same generation, but they live on different planets. As Bachmann g...

Tonight’s installment of the “Mitt and Rick Show,” AKA presidential debates, will introduce a new fringe character to be ignored—-former New...

George W. Bush never admitted a mistake. It’s time for his successor to save a crumbling presidency by admitting his own while going head-to...

The President has finally stepped up to deal with his personal pushback deficit by promising to veto any bill that cuts Social Security and...

Unless Mitt Romney (or Jeb Bush) stops the Rick Perry steamroller, we are heading toward a referendum on the value of human life next year. ...

At what point do stubborn blindness, knee-jerk resistance and blanket refusal to negotiate cross the line from ideological opposition to sub...

For decades, Joe McGinniss has been to journalism what Sarah Palin has become to politics--a relentless self-promoter who rarely lets facts ...

A prime-time TV special introduces new generations to “the most mysterious, fascinating--and feline--woman in American political history” t...

A Tea Party remake of “ The Rocky Horror Show ” could become as much a cult classic as the original that ended with space aliens leaving beh...

The weekend was spent mourning almost 3000 Americans who were killed on September 11, 2001. In the aftermath of that day, more than 6200 ...

When the second tower was hit, a loved one called and said, “Turn on the TV.” Still holding the phone, I did and said without thinking, “Thi...

On this anniversary weekend, an old question I used to ask editors and writers who were pitching a story during my working lifetime arises, ...

For anyone coming out of a two-year coma, Barack Obama’s jobs speech to a joint session of Congress may have looked like the familiar sight ...

His debut on the debate scene elicited audience cheers for capital punishment, introducing a potential president more comfortable than any i...