Connecting.the.Dots

After building the most powerful nation on earth by welcoming those around the world who want a better and freer life, a significant number ...

Perhaps the sharpest commentary was a repeated cutaway to John McCain smirking as the President went through a laundry list of ways to impro...

In very old age, stories haunt you, not necessarily your own. Some have such a wild resonance with your inner life they demand to be told. ...

Mediawise, running a state used to be a boring job. Mostly signing papers and posing at the opening of small town rec centers. But no more. ...

We can expect a Checkers Speech any time now in New Jersey as Chris Christie follows the career path of the only US president to be driven ...

The Founding Fathers are often cited in the debate over government surveillance vs. individual freedom, but we don’t have to go back that fa...

He was no plaster saint, this remarkable man who brought a race out of American darkness with soaring words and body rhetoric more muscular ...

In 2008, Barack Obama told Tim Russert with a worried smile on “Meet the Press” that his wife and friends thought he was still there behind ...

In life, a minor character can assume a crucial role. For one who has experienced this phenomenon often, so too in popular art, as the house...

Size matters, but so does moral essence. Snarling bridge traffic out of political pique may be petty compared to aiming airliners at tall b...

Just when Republicans were getting some traction with their “Chicken Little” yarn about Obamacare, the sky falls on them from different dire...

The first question about the former Defense Secretary’s memoir is timing. For someone who prides himself on patriotism, why now? In a f...

Phew! Avoiding spoilers for those who watch later, it’s hard to recover from last night’s Season 4 opener of everybody’s favorite gilded gu...

For Republicans with brains, the handwriting is clear. Five years of bashing the President on everything have left the GOP in opinion poll h...

"When someone reveals that government officials have routinely and deliberately broken the law,” says a New York Times editorial , rec...

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