Barack is Back: Re-entering the political fray after nearly two years of silence, former President Barack Obama condemned the politics of President Trump and his administration in a speech yesterday at the  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “None of this is …

Dirty Jobs: Surrounded by miners and coal executives at the Environmental Protection Agency, President Trump yesterday signed an executive order rolling back President Obama’s policies to cut greenhouse gases, claiming it will make the US more energy independent while putting …

Freedom: President Obama Commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning,  originally known as Bradley Manning, the Army intelligence analyst who handed over a trove of secret documents to WikiLeaks. She will be released this May rather than in 2045. A White …

Christmas Day: Pope Francis said during a service last night that Christmas has been “taken hostage” by materialism, and that the season needs more humility. Francis said we live in a time “when the lights of commerce cast the light …

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 …

In Transition: Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke on the phone and agreed to try to improve relations, according to a statement that came not from Trump, but the Kremlin. The statement said there’s an “absolutely unsatisfactory state …

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 …

Next Year Arrives: The city of Chicago went nuts last night after the Cubs won their first World Series in 108 years, beating the Indians 8-7 in Cleveland. Cubs fans have lived in eternal hope and suffered the mythical Curse …

E Minus 20: In a rare personal remark by a sitting president about a candidate running to succeed him, President Obama said Donald Trump should “stop whining and go try to make his case to get votes.” After days of …

E Minus 27: One day after losing the public support of Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan, Donald Trump was whining that it was “hard to do well” without the backing of his own party, but also crowing that he’s been …