Voices

If you've ever watched Law & Order - or taken a high-school civics class - you know you have the right to remain silent. The Supreme Court will rule whether you can remain silent while being questioned - without it being used against you. Read More

Gun lobbyists like to say that the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. But nobody has done more to make it easier for bad guys to get guns than the NRA. Read More

President Obama, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, and others offered their condolences to the victims of the attack. Read More

What’s the matter with Kansas? Today, the answer might be a persistent, pernicious opposition to reproductive freedom, to the right of all Americans to control their own bodies and, by extension, their own lives. Read More

Pop-up agencies could deal with prison overcrowding or creating a national medical database--and then disband. They would confront problems that only government can solve, while avoiding the inefficiency and bloat of permanent bureaucracies. Read More

Today, 166 men remain at Guantanamo. Most are being held without charge and will never be charged. The hunger strike is their only way to protest their treatment and their endless detention. Read More

In her weekly Open Letter, host Melissa Harris-Perry addresses Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky after his Wednesday speech at Howard University--which some found awkward and condescending. Read More

At the state and local level, the GOP is succeeding with policies that Beltway Republicans can only dream about. Read More

What's with these Republicans? I thought they were against big, bad government intrusion. I thought they wanted people to solve their own spats, wanted the local fellows to step in when there's problem. Read More

Another legacy from George W. Bush: the national backlash against school testing is strongest in Texas, the birthplace of the movement. Read More

The intent of Bloomberg’s gun control ad blitz is laudable and he is putting his money where his mouth is. But without a nod to local realities, the actions of an “outsider” New York mayor could lead folks to “get a rope.” Read More

What I thought was an uncontroversial comment in an MSNBC "Lean Forward" ad--on my desire for Americans to see children as everyone's responsibility--has created a bit of a tempest in the right's teapot. Allow me to double down--and tell me your own stories. Read More

Today, decades after Thatcher left office, if you compare inequality across industrialized nations, England and the U.S. are at the top, also sharing the least amount of social mobility. This is the society that Thatcher and Reagan gave us. Read More

Thatcher's passing calls for more than a whitewash of history. She also turned selfishness into a virtue, caring little for those who could not care for themselves. Read More

It’s almost impossible for me to think of Ronald Reagan without Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher and Reagan were a team. Read More

The sponsors of the Tennessee education bill, which proposes to dock welfare benefits to the state's poorest families if their children fail to make the grade in school, need a lesson on the very real educational impediments for students coming from impoverished households. Read More

America has fallen into accepting complacency. But the hunger strikers at Guantanamo have reminded us that this cannot go on. Read More

Democrats should head south to round up more support for gay marriage in a region that has evolved, like many a politician on the issue. Read More

Immigration reform does not depend on Marco Rubio. It’s Rubio who needs immigration reform. Read More

His name is practically unspeakable in Republican circles. But George W. Bush got 44% of the Hispanic vote, so the GOP could learn from him. Read More