Full video: Daunasia Yancey and Julius Jones, organizers for Black Lives Matter, confront Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton on issues of racial equality after a campaign event in Keene, New ...

As Democratic senators weigh what to do, if anything, about protecting voting rights at the federal level, important legislative questions hang over head. Does the party have the votes to properly ...

Pruitt might point to the Harvey mine as evidence of coal mining's bright future. But a closer look at the Bailey complex shows it's hardly a shining example of profitable, environmentally friendly ...

Dina Powell, a Goldman Sachs partner with deep ties to both Republicans and Democrats in Washington, is leaving the bank to join the Trump administration in a senior role that will focus on ...

After the 2012 elections, it was tempting to think Republicans would be a little more cautious about economic elitism and callous indifference towards those struggling to get by. But in 2014, many GOP ...

At last year's Republican National Convention, retired Gen. Michael Flynn, a prominent member of Donald Trump's inner circle, delivered a speech in which he chanted, "Lock her up!" in reference to ...

When Donald Trump first announced via Twitter yesterday that Defense Secretary James Mattis would "retire" in a couple of months, the news hardly came out of the blue. The two disagreed on a great ...

Rachel Maddow tells the story of the wreck of Shell oil's Kulluk rig and a set of violations that resulted in felony offenses and millions in fines, but now Shell is trying again, and activists are ...

For some of the president's critics, the push for Donald Trump's tax returns should've happened months ago, but congressional Democrats preferred a far more cautious approach. The House Democratic ...

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 ...

As the dust starts to settle on some highly significant primaries from recent weeks, it’s apparently time to once again shift our focus to another round of notable and consequential contests. In ...

Rachel Maddow reports on the alarming mystery of drones spotted flying over nuclear power plants in France, with more than a dozen instances at multiple sites, sometimes simultaneously, and the usual ...