The Trump Business: The president-elect decided to settle three fraud lawsuits against his now-defunct Trump University for $25 million. The “university” was supposed to be a real estate sales seminar that would impart the wisdom of Trump. Six thousand former …

In Transition: The abrupt departure of two members of the Trump transition team indicates turmoil in forming the next White House administration. In the second major shakeup since the election, Mike Rogers, a former Michigan congressman who was handling national …

E Minus 4: Forget about education, income inequality, national defense, healthcare, the wall, tax cuts, and tax hikes. Forget about all of it. There are only two issues in the final days of the presidential election: Donald Trump and Hillary …

E Minus 13:  Donald Trump and other Republican candidates immediately pounced on the news that the cost of Obamacare insurance policies is going up. Speaking in Florida Trump said, “Obamacare is just blowing up and even the White House, our …

Like a Rolling Stone: The Nobel Prize for literature has been awarded to the enigmatic singer/songwriter Bob Dylan, who in the 1960s was considered the voice of his generation. The Nobel citation says the award is “for having created new …

E Minus 28: House Speaker Paul Ryan gave up on Donald Trump, announcing that he’ll no longer campaign on behalf of his party’s candidate for president and will instead spend his time until election day defending the Republican majority in …

E Minus 30: Tonight’s town hall might have been Donald Trump’s last chance to establish presidential demeanor, but his feet have been swept from beneath him by the release of recordings featuring him crudely bragging about his sexual prowess and …

Tax Code: Donald Trump’s front men are putting positive spin on his apparent lack of payment of federal income taxes after a $916 million business loss in 1995. “The man’s a genius,” former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said on …

Beauty and the Beast: The presidential campaign has become a debate about a former beauty queen and a former president’s infidelity. Donald Trump opened a new line of attack on Hillary Clinton’s marriage, telling the NY Times, “Hillary Clinton was …

It’s Debatable: In the first of three presidential debates, Hillary Clinton delivered a calm, measured, and mostly factual performance, opening the door for Donald Trump to ramble, interrupt, sniff, dissemble, and roll his eyes. Trump was unusually controlled in the …