What is a "scandal," really? Good question in light of the week President Obama has had. Read the Syllabus for a preview of Saturday's "MHP" discussion on that question and much more! Read More

If you feel like you lost track of Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann since her failed 2012 presidential bid, this has been the week to remedy that. With 17 months until the 2014 midterm election, Bachmann is out with her first campaign ad. The subject? Obamacare! Read More

Republicans took to Twitter in advance of the House vote to appeal the Affordable Care Act Thursday, asking followers to slam #ObamacareInThreeWords. But the White House fought back with three words of its own. Read More

An Army officer in the Fort Campbell, Kentucky, sexual assault prevention office has been arrested for violating a restraining order that his ex-wife filed against him. Read More

A new study found that pot smokers tend to be skinnier and a better ability to regulate insulin levels. Already, 18 states and D.C. allow medical marijuana, and on Friday, Illinois approved legislation permitting doctors to prescribe medical marijuana. Read More

While Republicans work to block Obamacare from providing coverage to Americans who need it most, MSNBC and PoliticsNation are stepping up to help offer free health coverage. Read More

An obscure technicality on the Affordable Care Act has the potential to cause major problems for President Obama's signature piece of legislation. Read More

Flanked by her fellow Tea Party leaders, Michele Bachmann on Thursday linked the IRS scandal over targeting conservative groups to suspicions on how the agency administers the financial aspects of Obamacare. Read More

Democratic Senators Claire McCaskill and Jeanne Shaheen called for jobs related to preventing sexual assault to require new, more stringent qualification criteria as a way to attract better candidates. Read More

On Tuesday's Very Last Word, MSNBC's Ari Melber explained the difference between top-down and bottom-up political scandals, and how Richard Nixon was the progenitor of the top-down kind. Also, Joy Reid talked about how two military officials tasked with overseeing sexual assault cases could commit assaults themselves. Read More

This is the story of a House Republican Conference parody video, and the party's continued, not-so-subtle, attempts to reach young voters. Read More

Veteran Republicans who staunchly oppose Obamacare see the vote as a gift to their conservative freshman colleagues who were not able to have a voice in the 112th Congress's 36 votes to repeal the health reform law. Read More

A second U.S. service member assigned to an assault-prevention office is being investigated for sexual misconduct just one week after an Air Force Lt Colonel working in the sexual assault and prevention office was arrested for sexual battery, Read More

For the second time in two weeks, an officer in charge of assault prevention programs in a branch of the U.S. military has himself been implicated in a sexual assault crime. Read More

Kathie-Ann Joseph, a breast surgeon at NYU Medical Center who's cared for patients with the BRCA-1 gene, and Lindsay Avner, who underwent a preventive mastectomy at 23, on dealing with the gene. Read More

An anonymous charge has put the Obama administration on the defensive—the last place it needs to be six months before the new health law takes effect. Read More

Just when it starts to feel like the legal fight over access to Plan B couldn’t possibly get any more complicated, it does. Read More

The 37-year-old actress revealed on Tuesday in a New York Times op-ed that she went through a double mastectomy to lower her chances of breast and ovarian cancer. Read More

The pressure on the Obama administration shifts to the Justice Department, where federal authorities obtained two months of telephone records from Associated Press reporters. Read More

Anti-choice activists claim that when women have reproductive rights, they are easily exploited by medical charlatans. History shows that the opposite is true. Read More