Connecting.the.Dots

In the lethally labyrinthine politics of the Middle East, the murder of four Americans in Libya on September 11, 2012 continues to roil Amer...

The year’s last TV Sunday morning is dominated by Snowden backlash and Obamacare bashing, of course, but tired ears yearn to hear about oth...

In the dying days of a hard year, those who are feeling low can take heart. Their reaction may be a sign of good mental health. Anyone ...

During this season of aches and pains, the Obamacare battle resumes in full fury with little direct relevance to millions who are hurting a...

I can’t gift-wrap this, but it’s a Christmas treasure I have to share. Decades ago, I published it twice in different magazines. Eric S...

Despite critics and commercials, movies are rarely art. Yet, one such undisputed work exists but is rarely seen in the season of Dickens and...

With the economy struggling slowly upward, many families across the country are reminded these days of the most recession-proof business of ...

“Die Hard” is one of the all-time great Christmas movies. Who knew? Yet, according to such diverse opinion makers as the Christian Scienc...

With the passing of Joan Fontaine at 96, a record for sibling rivalry is finally set in stone. In Hollywood’s heyday, she and Olivia de Hav...

Year-end lists are not my thing, but 2013 undeniably places Barack Obama in a category that overcomes admiration with judgment. “They Mus...

Obituaries will recall the actor who has died at 81 for his bravura role in the 1962 epic, “ Lawrence of Arabia ” and rightly so but, in an...

With fewer readers and less advertising, periodicals of ink on paper seem doomed to disappear. But they won’t. A survivor of an even more...

The House passes a two-year budget deal to release Congress as a hostage from sequester insanity by a vote of 332-94. Half the naysayers a...

The Deal is even bigger than it appears on the surface. As the first break in two years of wall-to-wall Tea Party obstruction in the House...

Year’s end finds Francis I enshrined as Person of the Year and Barack Obama consigned to opinion-poll Hell . How many reflections on l...

Numbers improve, but the President gets no credit. So deeply is the anti-Obama narrative embedded in the debate over income inequality that,...

That sound under the earth’s surface is Henry Luce, founder of Time , spinning in his tomb as an Egyptian General, Turkish Prime Minister an...

One of the best around goes bi-weekly because not enough readers and advertisers are funneling money into it every week. In a postmorte...

On December 7, 1941 I was the age my twin grandsons are now, 17. Along with the Cuban Missile Crisis and 9/11/2001, it is etched in memory a...

As he passes from life into legend as the remarkable man who went from 27 years in South African prisons to the country’s President who woul...