Politics

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) slammed his colleague Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Monday for blocking Tom Wheeler's nomination to lead the Federal Communications Commission, telling MSNBC host Ed Schultz that Cruz is doing so to benefit high-powered corporate donors who have exploited the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling.

St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman served as straight man to a pair of wacky challengers last week in a candidate’s forum.

The legalization of marijuana is no longer a fringe issue within the Democratic Party, according to one U.S. congressman from Colorado.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told "Fox and Friends" that he planned to block Senate appointments until all survivors from last year’s terrorist attack on a U.S. compound in Libya could testify before Congress.

Former Pennsylvania Senator turned conservative movie studio mogul Rick Santorum (R) said on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday that freshman Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) did more to hurt the conservative cause than to support it with his government shutdown scheme.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday defended the vast surveillance powers of the U.S. National Security Agency.

On Friday night's edition of "The Rachel Maddow Show," host Rachel Maddow talked about whether or not the Republican Party is going to shake off its current wave of dysfunctional craziness or try to jettison the far-right tea party element that is dragging the party lower and lower in the public eye.

Friday night on "Real Time with Bill Maher," host Bill Maher and a panel made up of MSNBC's Rev. Al Sharpton, author and professional skeptic Richard Dawkins, filmmaker Michael Moore and former U.S. CIA operative Valerie Plame discussed radical Islam and the corrosive effects of religious zealotry on science and culture.

MSNBC host Ed Schultz exhorted Democrats to put aside their feelings toward Tea Party Republicans and team up with them in the name of stopping President Barack Obama from carrying out his plan for the U.S. to enter the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership, which he has argued would amount to "NAFTA on steroids."

While expressing sympathy for some parts of Rep. Alan Grayson's (D-FL) viewpoint and expressing his own distaste for Tea Party politics, MSNBC host Martin Bashir still challenged Grayson on Friday over whether a fundraising email explicitly linking the conservative group is appropriate, or even accurate.

Pulitzer Prize-winning financial columnist Gretchen Morgenson criticized the Justice Department's with JPMorgan Chase in an interview with Bill Moyers released Friday, arguing that it is far from an example of a government crackdown on financial industry malfeasance.