The Violence Against Women Act is typically thought to be one of those “easy” legislative measures. Every few years, a vote comes up to reauthorize the bill and every few years it passes with little, if any, opposition. Read More

As the new members of the 113th Congress are sworn in - a quick look at the incoming Congress by the numbers. Read More

Welcome, members of the 113th Congress. Try to not screw things up like your predecessors. Read More

The Violence Against Women Act died a quiet death Wednesday night. Why, exactly? Read More

The "Wilmington 10," wrongly convicted of a 1972 firebombing, were pardoned by outgoing North Carolina governor Bev Perdue. Read More

In her last days in office, North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue can right a great wrong. Read More

The 2012 presidential election may have been the first time blacks voted at a higher rate than whites, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center—despite several Republican-controlled state legislatures passing new voter identification laws. Read More

Video of Obama speaking as the organization's president at a university protest calling for more diversity among faculty surfaced during the 2012 campaign and showed the president's trademark delivery. Read More

Woe unto any Republican who tries to pull a fast one on Chris Matthews. Read More

"We have to create a safety net for poor people," Harris Perry said. "And when we won't because they happen to look different from us it is the pervasive ugliness." Read More

October 26, 2012:

As Colin Powell received extreme criticism for his endorsement of Barack Obama, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s chief of staff… Read More

“I think we ought to keep on the track that we are on.”
Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama was among the most “liked” and shared moments within MSNBC’s social media community Read More

Getty Images captured a photograph of a Romney supporter wearing a t-shirt that read “Put the White Back in the White House,” and the MSNBC Facebook community was left asking if this type of resentment was really an isolated incident. Read More

Jamie Foxx applies a sheen of nobility to the character from the second he is freed. He is heroic not just for rescuing his wife but also for spreading justice by putting slavemasters in the grave. Given the generations-long pain and chaos that slavery had and would cause, for a slavemeaster to die only once is to get off easy. Read More

"It is one thing to reflect evil and reflect a tragedy and another to luxuriate in it," said MSNBC's Ari Melber. Not so, said the rest of the nerdland panel. "When I watch this film I think the challenge is that the violence against black people is what's brutal. That's the brutality," said Michael Skolnik of GlobalGrind.com. Read More

The future senator from South Carolina is the addressee of this week's MHP open letter, delivered by guest host Joy Reid. Read More

Eric Cantor and his fellow Republicans are still standing in the way of renewing legal protections for women. Read More

The president of America's largest labor federation is again calling for comprehensive immigration reform and a path to citizenship. Read More

Senator Daniel Inouye, a longtime legislator and a war hero, was honored in the Capitol after his death. Read More