Are we gonna spend the next few months beating-up-on the IRS and the Bush-appointed former head of the IRS who was in charge when all of this happened? Or are we also gonna take the opportunity to try to figure out what exactly we should be doing to sort out this completely intractable mess in tax law created by Citizens United? Read More

The Washington Post's Dana Milbank and Mother Jones's Andy Kroll join Alex Witt for a conversation about the political implications of the latest IRS scandal. Read More

Mitt Romney is making a return to late-night television. A publicist for The Tonight Show confirmed that former Republican presidential candidate will sit down with Jay Leno on Friday, May 17th. Read More

Gregory Hicks, a veteran diplomat who was the highest-ranking American in Libya after the attacks in Benghazi, testified before a Congressional panel yesterday that questions he raised about the attacks led to his demotion, which the State Department denies. Read More

“If they keep this up you can be assured, minorities of all stripes will never vote for anyone who makes it more difficult for them to exercise right to vote," he said in a speech at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies's annual gala. Read More

Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted was very concerned with election unformity--except in elections that won't help Republicans when back the White House. Read More

Sunday's guests and topics for Up with Steve Kornacki. Read More

The alleged Mark Twain quote was actually, 'The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated,' but Americans -- and the White House press corps -- got the point at President Obama's news conference on Tuesday. Citing the White House's struggles with gun control and the sequester, ABC's Jonathan Karl asked the President, "So my question to you is do you still have the juice to get the rest of your agenda through this Congress?" Read More

An AP analysis found that blacks voted at a higher rate than whites last fall, for the first time ever. But a demographer who helped conduct the AP's study wouldn't stand by that finding. Read More

UPDATE: The U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) approved New Jersey’s $1.83 billion disaster recovery plan, Gov. Christie announced mid-day Monday. Read More

It’s going to be an interesting Father’s Day in the Mark Sanford household – at least as interesting as the last 24 hours of his campaign. Read More

The NBC/Wall Street Journal poll has tested the personal popularity of seven potential presidential candidates since the 2012 election, measuring how they stack up with the coalition of groups it may take to win the next one. Read More

Why does the president seem to be giving up so much ground after winning re-election on refusing to sacrifice Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security to the Tea Party deficit hawks? Read More

As a writing collaborator, Jon Favreau called Obama the “best boss” he’s ever had. In spite of being under the constant pressures of the Oval Office, the president “never raised his voice, he never got frustrated, he never yelled at us,” he said. Read More

Kid Rock campaigned for Mitt Romney in 2012, but now he's talking about economic fairness in terms that sound a lot more like President Obama. Read More

He's known as a hero today, but Dr. King and those he worked with faced extreme opposition in the early days of their fight. Two of his colleagues, Rev. Joseph Lowery and Juanita Abernathy, explain how things have changed. Read More

Jim DeMint officially takes the reigns at the Heritage Foundation today — and the American political landscape is about to change because of it. Read More

Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff (Calif.) and Republican Congressman Luke Messer (Ind.) agreed Monday that a pathway to citizenship for the nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants, and a deal on metrics to measure border security are likely to be the biggest challenges to final passage of immigration reform. Read More

Watch Chris' thank you to campaign organizers. Read More

Romney stays within the Republican establishment, while Palin tries to build on her conservative base. Read More