Connecting.the.Dots

“I don’t belong to any organized party,” said the 1930s cowboy sage Will Rogers, “I’m a Democrat.” Now Bill Clinton is back to help Bara...

The Tea Party is right. What voters decide in November will change the face of America for years to come, as did the elections of Richard Ni...

The First Lady is out plugging a new book “American Grown” to promote growing and eating vegetables, a personal bookend to her husband’s ca...

Mitt Romney has a 14-point Gallup lead among veterans in an otherwise close contest for the presidency, a demographic aberration more unde...

In early 1945, I arrived at the 317th Infantry Regiment, 80th Division, part of General George S. Patton's Third Army. "Welcome,...

Campaign watchers get a double-header of metaphors with reports that Barack Obama is eschewing a Rose Garden strategy and going head to head...

Presidential campaigns need a pithy phrase to nail the opposition, and the President is edging toward a killer label for Mitt Romney. In...

Are Democrats swiftboating themselves?  Why are Obama supporters so defensive about challenging Mitt Romney’s main claim to the presidency...

The Speaker is back, trying to reprise his Greatest Hit —-last year’s manufactured debt-ceiling crisis that lowered the nation’s credit rati...

Media ghosts hover over Facebook’s I.P.O. with a valuation of $105 billion , raising old questions about how to turn the attention of millio...

Barney Frank is getting married and Al Gore is going steady as Mitt Romney exchanges air kisses with George W. Bush behind closed doors. Wit...

Faced with an unlikely quotation of his from the past, Norman Mailer denied it saying, “I couldn’t have said that, it’s not within the range...

His rise and fall tell more about politics and politicians in the 21 st century—-and the rest of us--than they do about one imperfect man. ...

Six months from now, the most highly educated Americans in history will have chosen someone to lead them through hard times. In my lifetime,...

News flash: “ Americans Elect , the deep-pocketed nonprofit group that set out to nominate a centrist third-party presidential ticket, admit...

It’s all a reality show now as the “ First Gay President ” invites himself to make a graduation speech in the neighborhood where he came of...

What would the founding father of Time have made of the magazine’s breast-feeding Mother’s Day cover? The model for it, a 26-year-old ...

No modesty for those who occupy Wall Street seats of power as JP Morgan’s “London Whale” harpoons himself with a $2 billion loss, while his ...

Americans are too fat, experts say. The debate on gay marriage suggests we may be growing fat-headed as well. U.S. Centers for Disease C...