Politics

Larry Flynt is sure that there is a Republican who isn't "in his heart a racist," but he's never met one.

A Catholic school in California has fired a teacher who was the victim of domestic violence because they said her presence threatened "the safety of the students, faculty and parents."

On Wednesday night's edition of "The Rachel Maddow Show," host Rachel Maddow discussed the growing unease with which Virginia voters seem to be regarding their Republican elected officials. As the governor's race begins to take shape in that state, some of Virginia's one-time conservative stars are losing their shine with voters who are growing wary of overheated conservative rhetoric.

Conservative MSNBC host Joe Scarborough on Thursday paused for seven seconds of silence to shame the National Rifle Association (NRA) after he decided that the lobbying group's new advertisement had unfairly darkened a photo of President Barack Obama the same way that Time magazine "shaded" O.J. Simpson's mug shot in 1994.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) on Wednesday attempted to make the case for her legislation to crack down on military sexual assaults.

Some residents in Denton, Texas are in fear of ricocheting bullets after discovering that a nearby gun range allows customers to fire their assault rifles from a helicopter.

The leader of a British neo-fascist white supremacist group earned praise from Fox News host Brian Kilmeade this week on his radio program, just one day before he gave a very similar interview to BBC Radio that sparked a torrent of controversy across the U.K.

The publisher of a controversial coloring book company says that the White House emailed profanity to his company after one of President Barack Obama's friends was included on its "The True Faces of Evil – Terror" list.

A police department in Ohio on Tuesday defended a humane officer who shot and killed a litter of feral kittens and told nearby children that the animals would be going to "kitty heaven."

On his show Tuesday night, MSNBC host Chris Hayes provided a brief overview of government surveillance of American citizens during the Cold War.