Sally Kern, the homophobic Oklahoma state legislator who last week made racist and misogynistic comments on the House floor, has received an official rebuke from her...
Thanks to the efforts of President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, International Women’s Day, which marks the 100th anniversary this year, finally gets a...
Presents U.S. LGBT Movement New Opportunity To Forge Progressive Political Agenda With Allies From Madison to Tripoli, the conventional understanding of political order at home and...
A same-sex binational married couple, Josh Vandiver and Henry Velandia, legally married in Connecticut last year, explain to MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts how Henry will be deported...
“If I had to put it at an equation I think there’s still a good 10% to 20% chance,” President Obama is not an American, said...
Consider this an official thank you to the wonderful people at Coke for gently encouraging the wonderful people at King and Spalding to drop their defense...
     “This is the way social justice happens. Not with a bang, but with white-shoe law firms becoming uncomfortable taking certain kinds...
UPDATE: Read also: “DOMA: NOM On Law Firm That Refused To Defend DOMA, And Dumped The House.” Dan Lungren (R-CA), Chairman of the House Committee on...
Donald Trump, the host of NBC TV’s reality show The Apprentice, has just announced he will not seek the 2012 Republican nomination for president. “After considerable deliberation and...
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release April 22, 2011 EARTH DAY, 2011 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...
Senator John Ensign announced last night he would resign today. (Read his official statement here.) Rachel Maddow explores Ensign’s resignation, and reminds us on his amazing...
Over eight million people, greater than the population of New York City, live in Southern Sudan, an English-speaking autonomous region of the African continent known as...
Two Minnesota 14-year old girls during an overnight sleepover slumber party died by suicide, hanging themselves after enduring bullying at school. Halyee Fentress and Paige Moravetz were...
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release                                                          April 20, 2011   REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT A FACEBOOK TOWN HALL  ...
The New York Times‘ Nate Silver has identified the tipping point for marriage equality advocates and writes today in “Gay Marriage Opponents Now in Minority,” that “opponents...