Trump's Brutally Honest Castro Statement Proves He's No Obama  —  President-elect Donald Trump called now deceased former Cuban president Fidel Castro a “brutal dictator” whose legacy represents decades of death and oppression.  —  That's a stark contrast from President Barack Obama's statement …

Listening and Responding To Calls for an Audit and Recount  —  Over the last few days, officials in the Clinton campaign have received hundreds of messages, emails, and calls urging us to do something, anything, to investigate claims that the election results were hacked and altered in a way to disadvantage Secretary Clinton.

Letters threatening genocide against Muslims and praising Trump sent to multiple California mosques  —  Hussam Ayloush, seen here in May, is the Los Angeles director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the country's largest Muslim civil liberties organization.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Trump spent Thanksgiving asking: Mitt or Rudy?  —  More On:  —  The talk at Donald Trump's Thanksgiving dinner at his Florida club was all about if he should pick Mitt Romney or Rudy Giuliani for secretary of state.  —  The president-elect held court on Thursday at his Palm Beach, Fla. …

Already Happening: Media Normalization of Trumpism  —  In the children's short story “The Emperor's New Clothes,” by Hans Christian Andersen, what kept the fiction of the naked emperor's sartorial splendor alive was nothing in particular about the emperor.  True, he was vain and plainly foolish …

A look at Steve Bannon and his years at Harvard Business School  —  From the very first day, Steve Bannon made an impression.  —  In a Harvard Business School classroom of about 90 people in 1983, he took a seat in the “skydeck” — a spot at the top giving him a view of the entire class.

Obama Must Save the Courts to Save America From Trump  —  Can President Obama appoint Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court now that the Senate's term is ending?  Should he?  —  The answer to the first question is yes: The constitution gives him that power.

Regretting something, Angela?  Germany's Merkel announces plan to deport 100,000 migrants  —  ANGELA MERKEL today announced plans to deport 100,000 migrants who arrived in Germany last year as she continues to backtrack on her controversial open door asylum policy.

Potential Conflicts Around the Globe for Trump, the Businessman President  —  MANILA — On Thanksgiving Day, a Philippine developer named Jose E. B. Antonio hosted a company anniversary bash at one of Manila's poshest hotels.  He had much to be thankful for.

DoD releases name of service member killed Thursday in Syria  —  The Defense Department announced Friday evening the identity of the service member killed in northern Syria while supporting Operation Inherent Resolve.  —  Senior Chief Petty Officer Scott Cooper Dayton, 42, of Woodbridge …