Politics

Attorney and author Glenn Greenwald confessed Wednesday that he thinks America's oligarchs appear to be mostly focused right now on consolidating surveillance and military might without regard for discontent across society, risking major civil unrest.

A school district in Arkansas has decided to completely cancel 6th grade graduation ceremonies after some parents asked that Christian prayers not be included.

On Wednesday night's edition of "The Rachel Maddow Show," host Rachel Maddow talked about the futility of attempting to do minority outreach when your party's platform is openly hostile to non-white Americans. She highlighted a study by the Heritage Foundation that said Latino immigrants should therefore be admitted to the U.S. only sparingly because their supposedly lower brain power will cost the country trillions of dollars.

A Facebook page that glorified violence against women in the military was shut down after Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) publicly called it to the attention of the secretary of defense and the commandant of the Marine Corps.

In a nearly 17-minute speech on Wednesday evening, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) blasted an unnamed senator for saying God would protect the Earth from climate change.

A 7-year-old boy in Texas is expected to recover after being shot by his 5-year-old brother while the two were taking a bath together on Tuesday.

A North Carolina state House committee on Tuesday passed a bill that would ban teenagers from having tests or even counseling for sexually transmitted diseases without a parent's consent.

Internet conspiracy talk show host Glenn Beck announced Tuesday that he is "not a journalist," literally four days after telling listeners that he is a journalist, revealing in the process that he has no idea what actual journalism is.

On Tuesday night's edition of "The Rachel Maddow Show," host Rachel Maddow addressed a statement by athlete Martina Navratilova that in 29 U.S. states, employers can fire a worker for being LGBT. The "fact-checking" agency PolitiFact rated Navratilova's statement as being less than truthful, but in fact, it is true.

The man who is being hailed as a hero for rescuing the lives of three women kidnapped for a decade says that he would like any reward money to be turned over to the victims.