The Democrats: Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders bluntly explained his belief in “Democratic Socialism,” last night in a Democratic town hall meeting on CNN. “Economic rights, the right to economic security is –  should exist in the United States of America,” …

Skyfall: The air transportation network is still sorting itself out after the weekend blizzard in the Mid-Atlantic coast. Travellers are stranded all over the country. Today nearly 1,500 flights are cancelled and almost 2,000 delayed. In Washington both the federal …

Skyfall: The first blizzard of a late East Coast winter delivered on its promise of a crippling snowfall. Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York were buried under snow. New York’s Central Park had 26.8 inches of snow by midnight, but …

Skyfall: Snow is dumping today on the Mid Atlantic region from Virginia and north into New England. Roughly 30 million people live in the blizzard zone with the heaviest accumulations expected in Washington, DC and Baltimore. Motorists have been stranded …

Skyfall: Washington and the mid-Atlantic are bracing for what weather forecasters are hawking as a potentially “crippling” blizzard moving in later today. The National Weather Service warns that, “Heavy snow and blowing snow will cause dangerous conditions and will be …

MoneyBeat: The Dow Jones was down more than 500 points for a while yesterday on worries about the depressed price of oil and the Chinese economy, before settling down a bit and closing off by 249. Oil dropped to $26.55 …

Terror: At least 22 people were killed and many more wounded in a Taliban attack today at a university in northwestern Pakistan. It happened at Bacha Khan University in the town of Charsadda, about 25 miles from a school in …

Argo: The prisoner swap that sealed the Iran Nuclear deal came down to the wire when Iran tried to hold on to the wife and mother of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian. The two were being held in a room …

The Democrats: Hillary Clinton stepped up her attacks on opponent Bernie Sanders while hugging the political record of Barack Obama last night in the final Democratic debate before the Iowa caucuses. In particular Clinton defended Obamacare while Sanders said he …

Global Warming: In a major thaw of relations, the US and Iran traded prisoners yesterday just as Iran was confirmed to have dismantled part of its nuclear program, meeting the requirement to unfreeze its assets and rejoin the global economy. …