Rachel Maddow reports on a new effort to ban discrimination against gay people by amending the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include sexual orientation and gender identity, and notes that most people don't ...

A couple of years ago, the U.S. Secret Service struggled with a series of damaging controversies, including some important security breakdowns, prompting a congressional investigation and a bipartisan ...

Since Donald Trump took office, the Republican's Environmental Protection Agency has repeatedly downplayed the role of science and evidence in the decision-making process, even on matters of public ...

Late yesterday in Miami, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) made it official, launching his 2016 presidential campaign with a not-so-subtle message: he's this cycle's new, fresh face. We apologize, this video ...

It’s probably fair to say that Sen. Bob Menendez has had better days. The New Jersey Democrat was already facing a serious criminal indictment when the Justice Department announced new charges, ...

Rachel Maddow sorts fact from fiction in several of the day's top stories, including whether Fox News' Bill O'Reilly really threatened a reporter doing a story about his lies, and the surprising legal ...

Rachel Maddow shares video of Tom Brokaw being interrupted by his cell phone in the middle of discussing Tuesday night's midterm elections.Nov. 6, 2014 ...

Rachel Maddow shares her love for a new app that inserts some of Trump’s most vivid rhetoric into whatever you’re reading about him online.July 9, 2015 ...

It appears the Republican majority in Florida's state legislature has a rather macabre sense of humor. Just a week after a gunman killed 17 people in a massacre at a South Florida high school, the GOP ...

About a decade ago, Donald Trump stressed one specific point as a way of differentiating himself from his adopted political party. “I’m not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican, ...

Common sense suggests that Donald Trump would want his Arlington National Cemetery controversy to end as quickly as possible. The story generated a ton of highly unflattering coverage last week — ...

Hoping to justify his controversial new policy in Syria, Donald Trump released a detailed blueprint of his strategy this morning and agreed to a series of interviews with independent journalists, ...