Connecting.the.Dots

Embattled as he is in Washington and around the world, Barack Obama may find himself pondering the earthy wisdom of a favorite predecessor, ...

Advertising genius Jerry Della Femina once wrote a gag slogan for a Japanese electronics client, “From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pe...

The Syria hearing brings the Senate into sharper focus. After six years of aimless dysfunction and deadlock about the lives of Americans, me...

Gassing populations inevitably invites comparisons with Hitler and Jews in the 1930s. Headlines abound: John Kerry tells Democrats they face...

The President finally admits he wants to attack Syria but will ask Congressional permission to do it. “I’m prepared to give that order...

What price entertainment? Violent movies carry a disclaimer that “No animals were hurt in the making,” but now pro football admits to human ...

The United States tacitly approved and pinpointed targets for deadly chemical attacks by Saddam Hussein against Iranian troops in Iraq, acc...

Irony of ironies, a President who yearns for consensus is finally achieving something like it in growing opposition and doubts across the po...

Three Presidents commemorate the “I Have a Dream” speech, but Americans should remember Dr. King did not stop marching on Washington after t...

Barack Obama is being inexorably drawn, clearly against his better judgment, into a strike on Syria that could morph into yet another quagm...

Glenn Greenwald may go down in history as the most successful agent of stolen property ever. Now the New York Times and the nonprofit i...

Grainy black-and-white images are all over TV this weekend, but a flesh-and-blood Martin Luther King Jr. might still be here, heavy with yea...

Every new headline from Egypt and Syria affirms chaos in the Middle East and American helplessness to do anything about it. Impotence...

In our consumer-oriented society, the President proposes to make higher education more cost-effective and colleges more accountable for the...

Nothing can make you feel more ancient than a celebration of the 130 th birthday of someone you knew. So it is with fashion icon Coco Chan...

Long ago, I wrote a book titled “Media Power: Who’s Shaping Your Picture of the World?” Now the Republican National Committee is working on ...

Lame old joke: When fire breaks out in a mental hospital, paranoids are the first responders—-always alert that someone is out to get them. ...

Friends and family in Westport, Connecticut are all agog over a bunch of 12-year-old boys playing baseball in the Little League World Series...

Never turn your back on a home garden in August. Years ago my family came back from a week’s vacation to find scores of zucchini the size o...

Feminist icons like Gloria Steinem and the late Betty Friedan, who were long-time colleagues and friends of mine, might see this as “blaming...