Politics

Anti-LGBT activist Gary Bauer threatened the Republican party with political defection on Tuesday amid a shifting political tide on marriage equality.

The University of Texas Student Government will vote on a bill Tuesday night that would ask campus police to issue citations for marijuana possession offenses instead of making arrests.

Fox News radio host Todd Starnes says that the push for equal rights for LGBT people is making Christians who believe in the "Biblical definition of marriage" into "second-class citizens."

Arizona Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Monday vowed to continue to use the slur "illegal" to refer to undocumented immigrants.

It takes a rare piece of satire to get under the skin of the professional talker class on Fox News and right-wing radio, but comedian Jim Carrey's anti-gun music video has done just that, and conservatives like Ann Coulter, Greg Gutfeld and Laura Ingraham can't help but publicize it.

The owner of a gun shop in Tucson, Arizona on Monday refused to hand over an AR-15 military-style rifle that Mark Kelly purchased in order to demonstrate how easy it was to obtain assault weapons.

Republican lawmakers in Tennessee sprung to action and demanded answers after confusing a mop sink recently installed in the state Capitol for a Muslim foot-washing sink.

Consumer advocate Ralph Nader on Monday decried the lack of choices at the ballot box and predicted super rich candidates would run in 2016.

Appearing Monday on "Democracy Now," Richard Wolff, an economics professor who taught for 35 years at the University of Massachusetts, said that Fox News host Bill O'Reilly has absolutely no idea what he's saying when he rants about so-called "nanny states."

The chief of police in Albany, New York says that his department just wanted a "realistic" setting when it frightened residents in a poor, predominately African-American neighborhood with SWAT training exercises that included firing blank ammunition and exploding flash grenades.

MSNBC contributor Mike Barnicle on Monday said that he had seen a "level of anti-Semitism" against Michael Bloomberg after the Jewish mayor began to push for gun control in response to the December mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.