Politics

Newark Mayor Cory Booker (D) appeared Monday night on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show after describing the negative campaigning by President Barack Obama as "nauseating" the previous day.

Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman took aim at one of Mitt Romney's main talking points on Monday, claiming that his experience as a businessman would not help him as president.

Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is accusing Planned Parenthood of providing abortions as part of a plot to "eliminate and limit" the African-American population.

Former Bush spokesperson Dana Perino says that President Barack Obama's White House has been dismissing advice from their "friends" like Newark Mayor Cory Booker, who called an Obama ad "nauseating," and Campbell Brown, who wrote that that the president was "condescending" toward women.

Billionaire mogul Donald Trump is telling presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to "go at it" and attack President Barack Obama for his former association with Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

The chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC) on Sunday said it was the fault of President Barack Obama and the Democrats for reports that a super PAC supporting presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney was considering attack ads featuring Obama's former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

President George W. Bush's former adviser Karl Rove says that using Rev. Jeremiah Wright to attack President Barack Obama is a "stupid" idea.

House Budget Commitee chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) says that his plan to slash government spending on programs for the poor while increasing defense spending and giving tax cuts to the wealthy would actually "prevent austerity."

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Sunday challenged House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) to bring middle-class tax credits up for an immediate vote to prove they wouldn't be "held hostage" to tax cuts for the rich.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) on Sunday dismissed financial regulations that could have stemmed $3 billion or more in losses on derivatives by JPMorgan Chase & Co. because the company "should be help accountable by the market."

Potential Republican vice presidential candidate Marco Rubio on Saturday blasted President Barack Obama, claiming he was the most “divisive” political figure in modern American history.

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman once again pushed back on the notion that America needs to engage in massive suspending cuts now to deal with the country's debt Friday evening.

Friday night, on "Real Time with Real Maher," host Bill Maher welcomed veteran newsman Dan Rather, long-time anchor of "The CBS Evening News." Rather is the author of a new book, called Rather Outspoken.