Connecting.the.Dots

As powers-that-be sweep away the Occupy movement , where does the animating spirit go now? With apologies to generations who have lodged “...

Two Southwestern stars of the GOP, the Governor of Texas and the Senator from Oklahoma, are riding off in opposite ideological directions. ...

For a long-time Democrat who loves his country much more than his party, it may seem like an agonizing choice: a sane Republican to oppose B...

The time for euphemisms is running out. What we are seeing is more like a social meltdown. A Pulitzer Prize-winning economic journalist wr...

On his way to an eight-day trip to discuss trade and security in the Pacific rim, Barack Obama watches a basketball game on an aircraft car...

The Penn State Scandal has many losers—-not the only the legendary coach who lost his job, his reputation and a Presidential Medal of Freedo...

I know just how Rick Perry felt during his “ brain freeze ” last night. As other GOP candidates were spewing out new versions of their non...

Memo to Clint Eastwood: This admirer of your mature work is going to pass on the new Hoover movie . Even public monsters have inner lives, b...

From evidence so far, the Pizza Man’s skirt-chasing seems as random as his economic studies, making casual passes at objectives but cheerfu...

I’ve just spent a week in that earlier America you love so much and, while the absence of politicians was a blessing, I would not recommend ...

A year from today, Americans vote for a president again. Three years after the last ballot, even ardent Democrats and entranced Independen...

On Halloween weekend, Americans apparently are tired of all-tricks, no-treats on Capitol Hill, sending approval ratings down to the GOP’s f...

Democrats are offering a $3 trillion debt reduction of tax increases and spending cuts, including as much as $500 billion in savings from M...

Hard times in the 1930s produced a golden age in Hollywood as Americans, helpless in real life, sought escape at neighborhood movie houses. ...

It ran only once 47 years ago, but a one-minute effort for LBJ’s 1964 reelection campaign was still being parsed yesterday at a college symp...

Second prize in the GOP presidential contest is a lucrative stint as a commentator for Fox News, and the Pizza Man has a lock on that, which...

This week Barack Obama answered a question David Petraeus posed eight years ago. A division commander as the Iraq invasion began in 2003, th...

Eric Cantor is a rising Washington star, as JFK was when he published his 1955 best seller about political fortitude. But sadly Cantor doesn...

News from Libya provokes reactions as weird as the man himself: “CBS: Qaddafi. ABC: Gadhafi. NBC: Khaddafy," tweets a White House corr...

A year ago, Washington rumors had Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton switching jobs for 2012, and that was before the Tea Party wrecking crew cam...