Connecting.the.Dots

It's getting French Revolution-y out there. Mitt Romney is facing villagers with pitchforks, restless natives keep decapitating moderat...

Did the winner of a year-long Obama bashathon in the Republican debates think it would go away once he won the nomination? Did Mitt Romney t...

The other day I saw a man doze off in a high swivel chair, and the sight suddenly lifted my heart for the future.   He was a barber of Ital...

The magazine that puts Capital  Letters on everything and everyone, Vanity Fair , now enters Uncharted Territory in Obamanalysis...the Presi...

Newton Leroy Gingrich goes into history now to join Lyndon Baines Johnson, two men of outsized appetite for power who served as Speaker of t...

So soon after eight years of W circumlocution ("Mistakes were made"), could Americans bear as president another aging frat boy who...

Osama bin Laden was so depressed about Al Qaida's low favorability ratings in the Arab world, we now learn, that he considered a name c...

T ongue in tanned cheek, John Boehner explains his escalating criticism of Barack Obama: "The president is getting … bad advice.  Some...

From "Mad Men," we know a media target is a demographic group who wants and needs the same thing or can be conned into thinking th...

After morphing into a Tea Party zealot to win nomination, the GOP choice is in the kind of tricky transition described by JFK while running ...

“This is not who we are,” Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says after seeing pictures of U.S. soldiers defiling enemy bodies in Afghanistan....

Pulitzer judges should reconsider their decision. By declining to name an award-winning novel this year, they have overlooked the greatest c...

Amid a furor about misbehaving moron s in Colombia, a citizen who once worked closely with the Secret Service is moved to share his fondness...

Do two make a trend? Richard Cohen of the Washington Post now writes a warm-hearted memoir of a post-White House encounter with President ...

“What do you call a thousand attorneys at the bottom of the ocean?” “A good start.” Dust off all the old lawyer jokes for their biggest ex...

Time passes and takes with it those who can bear witness, reality becomes history, but in the deep well of national memory, the past holds l...

Five years ago, a family that had captured the American imagination suddenly disappeared from TV screens with no real explanation, just as t...

In the obituary roll of old clips, Mike Wallace , who has died at 93, is now seen in his familiar role as relentless prosecutor of the power...

If you’re in a waiting room where the TV set is always on Fox News, you may want to check your doctor bills. In this era of politicized he...

A British writer with an Asian wife scandalizes the Web with a “talk” to his children about American race, providing them with outlandish s...