Connecting.the.Dots

Al Franken, who used to be a comic and perhaps still is, has created a holiday solution to the Senate’s civility shortage—-a “ Secret Santa ...

The final nail in the Cain campaign’s coffin is a disheartening reminder of how far Americans have come in being vulnerable to figures “tel...

A tipping point in the Obama-bashing competition has now cost Mitt Romney endorsement by the only paper that counts in New Hampshire. “Ne...

If you enjoyed how Ralph Nader put George W. Bush into the White House in 2000, you may love what a group called Americans Elect is trying ...

From years of editing women's magazines and tasting test-kitchen results thereof, herewith a way with leftover turkey that will keep you...

The President pardoned two birds yesterday after Congress went home for the holidays. In the annual White House rite , he acknowledged the...

He has been gone now longer than he lived—-48 years to 46--and, in these days of Washington impotence , must seem unreal to generations of A...

Congress is raising the dysfunctional family Thanksgiving to new heights, not only by disagreeing over how to carve the turkey but throwing ...

British and German heads of state met this week to bridge the gap between them and “tried to paper over divergent views on European policy ...

An impression of Bumble the Beadle is Newt Gingrich’s latest turn in a one-man show of Dickens impressions as he tells Harvard students tha...

Another Congressional “Perils of Pauline” episode unreels with the Supercommittee jalopy dangling over the edge of a cliff as members try t...

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...