Obama held his last scheduled news conference of 2016 on Friday before heading off on a two-week family vacation in Hawaii. The session clocked in at an hour and 27 minutes, a record for the Obama presidency. The end-of-year meeting with reporters...

The United States probably faces more political issues than any other country on the planet. That is no doubt because the government has their fingers in many different pies. Indeed, their reach extends far beyond the border with Mexico or Canada....