Barack Obama

Poland's prime minister has criticized Netflix for making a "terrible mistake" by "rewriting history" in a new Nazi death camp documentary.  Mateusz Morawiecki wrote to the multi-billion dollar streaming company insisting they make changes to the newly-relea…

A Warning, Anonymous says, is intended for a broad audience, though to judge by the parade of bland, methodical arguments (Anonymous loves to qualify criticisms with a lawyerly in fairness), the ideal reader would seem to be an undecided voter who has lived i…

Rushkoff's observation encapsulates the trajectory of political discourse in America in the 11 years since with remarkable precision. The notion of democratic participation was formed in the Renaissance, and founded upon a naive idea of individual participati…

Trump inches closer to outing purported whistleblower

Another massive spill along the Keystone pipeline has prompted outrage from activists who are currently in opposition to the Keystone XL expansion that was first rejected by former President Barack Obama but given allowed by a permit from President Donald Tru…

Photograph: Ashlee Rezin Garcia/AP On Tuesday, in Chicago, former president Barack Obama joined actress Yara Shahidi in a conversation with activists from his Obama Foundation program. Over the nearly 1.5-hour Obama Foundation summit event, the beloved polit…

Pipelines were made for transporting oil. But some, it appears, were made for leaking. The Keystone Pipeline System is one of those. The system runs more than 2,600 miles from Canada and into Nebraska where it splits. And on Tuesday night, it began to spill …

Barack Obama derided "call-out culture" in a speech at the Obama Foundation summit on Tuesday, saying achieving real change is more complex than being "as judgmental as possible." "This idea of purity and you're never compromised and you're politically woke,…

Image copyrightReutersImage caption John Conyers greets Barack Obama in Detroit in January 2016 The longest-serving black member of the US Congress, John Conyers, has died at home at the age of 90, police in Detroit say. The Democrat resigned under a clou…

(CNN)While the announcement on Sunday of the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been praised among a bipartisan group of elected US leaders, current and former law enforcement officials say the possible threat to the US homeland by ISIS sympathizer…