Former U.S. president Barack Obama told host Matt Galloway that he misses the camaraderie and the "mental exercise of figuring out hard policy problems," but not the pomp of the presidency. He adds that he might have enjoyed a third term if someone said “you can sit in your basement in your sweats” just doing the policy work. In his only Canadian interview, he also spoke about racism in the Donald Trump era and the task facing a Joe Biden presidency. Read more and listen to the full interview he

Barack Obama, who celebrates his 59th birthday today, shot to political stardom with a rousing speech in 2004 at the DNC, which fueled his rise to Democratic presidential nominee in 2008. | Biography