Politics

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on Sunday said the United States would continue to recover from the economic collapse at a snail's pace unless the middle-class was strengthened.

CNN host Candy Crowley on Sunday failed to tell viewers that former Bush Labor Secretary Elaine Chao was married to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as she blasted President Barack Obama's "far-left agenda" and claimed that he had not been as willing to work towards bipartisan solutions as Republican senators.

In a pre-Super Bowl interview on Sunday, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell refused to acknowledge that the game of football had any role in the brain injuries suffered by numerous players who are suing the league.

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman on Sunday asserted that the National Rifle Association (NRA) had been "revealed as an insane organization" that "has this vision that we're living in a Mad Max movie" because it wants to put more guns in schools instead of supporting universal background checks and limits on military-style weapons.

The CEO of the National Rifle Association (NRA) says that the American public should not trust President Barack Obama's push for new gun control laws because the administration lied about "Obamacare" being a tax and a universal background check would just be a "check on law-abiding people."

National Rifle Association (NRA) CEO Wayne LaPierre on Sunday argued that banning assault weapons limited the 'ability to survive' and that high-capacity magazines should not be outlawed because women need more bullets.

Past statements by the National Rifle Association (NRA) supporting of background checks for all gun sales are at the center of a new advertisement by the gun-control group Mayors Against Illegal Guns.

Nebraska Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy (R) resigned on Saturday morning after a newspaper investigation revealed that he had made thousands of late-night phone calls to women who were not his wife over a four-year period.

Saturday morning on MSNBC's "Up with Chris Hayes," host Chris Hayes and panelists discussed the political prospects of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R), who some see as a top contender for the Republican Party's hopes in 2016. Panelists Aaron Pena of the Hispanic Republican Caucus of Texas and Lorella Praeli of the United We Dream Network joined Hayes to look at recent reactions by some on the right to Rubio's immigration proposals, which would give 11 million people currently in the U.S. a path to citizenship.

Friday night on "The Rachel Maddow Show," host Rachel Maddow discussed how the clownish antics of conservatives on Capitol Hill are beginning to affect the standing of the U.S. in the world. She touched on recent conspiracy theories from Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) about the raid on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, as well as a newer right-wing canard that former President Ronald Reagan's childhood home is going to be torn down to make way for a parking lot that will serve the Obama Presidential Library.

Maher discussed Sarah Palin's parting with Fox News during his New Rule segment on Friday.

On Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday, the host expressed his frustration with the GOP in the past few days.