Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

The most unpredictable factor

Can anybody trust the United States anymore? It's getting increasingly difficult. Watching what is happening in Washington these days, it's hard to know exactly what we're looking at: a poor imitation of drama series "House of Cards" or a page out of tome by a future Edward Gibbon titled "The History of the Decline and Fall of the American Empire."

Trump campaign organizer backs ND candidate

I have to admit that it sounded kind of crazy when I first heard the news that George Gigicos, one of US President Donald Trump's key campaign staffers in the runup to the 2016 elections, was in Greece helping New Democracy candidate Sofia Nikolaou in her campaign for a seat in Parliament in general elections later this year.

Back to normality or full speed ahead?

2017 turned out to be one of those rare years where predictions were justified: US President Donald Trump was predictably unpredictable and provocative; China's and Russia's leaders cemented their power and their countries continued to gain influence in areas that were the United States' exclusive domain; Europe remained steady on its unsteady course - avoiding some mortal dangers, such as the

Donald Trump chosen as TIME Magazine’s 2016 Person of the Year

President-elect Donald Trump was selected by TIME Magazine as Person of the Year, a choice that has not come as a surprise to many. However, to show precisely how disruptive an influence the contraversial billionaire has had on world events over the past few years, the magazine cover dubbed him: “President of the Divided States of America.”

Mocked for his tweets, Trump fires back on Twitter

President-elect Donald Trump sent a dismissive tweet in response to a comedy sketch that mocked his penchant for sending tweets.

Trump again lambasted the show "Saturday Night Live," on which he is played by actor Alec Baldwin.
But whereas on other occasions Trump has tweeted his criticism the next morning, this time he fired away before the show ended.

Obama sees parallels in Trump, Brexit votes

President Barack Obama says one of the lessons he's learned from recent elections is the need to address inequality, economic dislocation and peoples fear that their children won't do as well as they have done.

Obama is being asked about what comparisons he draws from Donald Trump's election victory and the vote by Britain to leave the European Union.

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