Reading this back and forth between Matt and Neil about how likely it would be to build a political consensus that torture is wrong, I was struck by how much Matt is propping up a false dilemma in the seemingly innocuous statement that we should...

Sonny Bunch rather elegantly (if unintentionally) demonstrates the case for universal health care: But certain things about the health care debate drive me absolutely nuts, like the self-entitlement you encounter day in and day out when you pay...

Eliot Spitzer’s trying to make a comeback. Many dudes are on board. Others say, “Lay off the man, he was just horny“. Women, who spend much of their lives trying to tease out “just horny” from “woman-hating...

Former Vice President Dick Cheney told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that he had “formally” asked the CIA to release memos that he claims show the U.S. got valuable intelligence from harsh interrogations. A senior intelligence source...

President Obama left himself open to the possibility of supporting an investigation into “Bush administration officials who devised harsh terrorism-era interrogation tactics,” wrote the Associated Press. RAW STORY has more details...

President Obama left himself open to the possibility of supporting an investigation into “Bush administration officials who devised harsh terrorism-era interrogation tactics,” wrote the Associated Press. RAW STORY has more details...

Texas will not certify a Creationist master’s program. I’m not really sure where you go with a degree in making shitty YouTube videos and building fake, reactionary museums. It seems as if creationism is fairly well-stocked with...

Jake Tapper noted that Venezuela State Television has video of President Obama talking with President Hugo Chavez in a way that appeared to be less friendly than earlier encouters. Republicans have criticized President Obama for being too...

Jon Stewart looks at how conservative politicians and pundits are reacting to release of four Office of Legal Council Memos that explained the use of torture on detainees under President Bush. Stewart notes that some pundits are disturbed more...

Former vice president Cheney continued his attack on President Obama Monday in a interview with Fox’s Sean Hannity. “I’ve been concerned at the way we’ve been presented overseas… What I find disturbing is the extent...

Details are coming out on the newly released torture memos, including more than 266 instances of waterboarding of two alleged terrorists. Should Bush administration officials be held accountable? Rachel Maddow is joined by Newsweek’s...

Senate Judiciary Committee member Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., explains to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that the Justice Department is actively investigating the details of the torture of U.S. detainees. Among other reports, the Senate...

CQPolitics.com’s Jeff Stein joins Countdown guest host David Shuster to discuss a complicated new story involving NSA wiretapping, Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., Israeli lobbyists and espionage. Harman denies that she offered to get Israeli...

The Obama administration has said that those that ordered or conducted torture should not be held accountable. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., discusses her belief that officials involved in torture under the Bush administration should be...

It’s not like folks are tuning in to see the next world leaders on the Miss USA pageant, but the producers clearly wanted to convey a tad more gravitas by having judges ask deeper questions than the usual “achieving world...