Connecting.the.Dots

The Republican Establishment is now embracing the Inevitable—-not with the usual alacrity of hopping on a winner’s bandwagon but a heavy-leg...

Whatever happened to innocent until proved guilty? Are we deciding murder cases now by taking polls ? As Trayvon Martin’s parents call for...

The Supreme Court marathon is more proof of how American health care, with or without reform, is in the hands of the wrong people—-the for-...

Losing momentum, Rick Santorum is letting the public mask slip and openly showing what historian Richard Hofstadter identified half a centur...

I paid a posthumous visit this week to the world I once lived in—-a Manhattan gathering of privileged people giving money and time to a caus...

“If I had a son,” the President said today, “he’d look like Trayvon,” the boy whose shooting by a Florida neighborhood watchman has become ...

Mitt Romney’s hapless aide has found the perfect metaphor for a GOP campaign that keeps changing like scribbles on a childhood toy, erasing...

On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln spoke for two minutes at a Pennsylvania cemetery of a nation “conceived in liberty and dedicated to t...

The man has a gift for divisiveness. After a disastrous loss in Puerto Rico , helped along by his English-as-a-first-language gaffe, the not...

As supporters try to put Orrin Hatch , 78, out to pasture and literally dislodge Dick Lugar , 79, zealots in the Senate now are showing thei...

The media narrative of Republican primaries keeps producing excited headlines of Rick victories that obscure a mundane reality of Mitt inchi...

Both Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert were entranced last night with the latest Romney transformation—-into a grits-eating good ole boy down S...

In my departed friend Joe Heller’s great novel, a character explains that "Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't ...

Tomorrow’s water-cooler topic at work will be the HBO Sarah Palin movie, with riffs on the performances, accuracy and political meaning. It’...

As Republicans lurch toward choosing a nominee , the President’s worst mistake of a tumultuous first term is waiting to emerge in the electi...

No one believes the White House (or all of government, for that matter) controls what happens to the economy and certainly not on a short-te...

Mitt’s bandwagon is picking up the likes of Eric Cantor and Sen. Tom Coburn, but the contest is on for the Big One . After Romney acolytes...

On Super Tuesday, the GOP delivers another chapter in its update of “Anna Karenina,” a serialized Tolstoy tale of the clash between love and...

Fifty years after the world teetered on the brink of war in 1962 when the Soviet Union put missiles into Cuba 90 miles from the U.S., we hav...

Before dying suddenly at 43 last week, right-wing activist Andrew Breitbart promised a “ bombshell ” to dethrone the President and has now ...