In what is becoming an annual #nerdland tradition, host Melissa Harris-Perry offered a summer reading list to her audience. Read More

The latest steady trickle of national security leaks now has a public face. On Sunday, The Guardian revealed the identity of the man behind the release of… Read More

The father of Trayvon Martin asked for prayers and appealed for peace Monday as potential jurors filed into a Florida courthouse for the trial of George Zimmerman, charged with second-degree murder in the teenager’s shooting death. Read More

Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former CIA employee and defense contractor said he leaked the NSA information because he was alarmed at how the government was eroding privacy. Read More

President Obama said he had a "very constructive conversation" with Chinese President Xi Jinping after the two leaders met for a two-day summit to discuss U.S.-China relations and cybersecurity. Read More

Internationally, the Bradley Manning trial is seen as a test of U.S. commitment to freedom of the press and military justice. Read More

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who is hoping to become New York’s first openly gay mayor, said she will not allow the city go back to a time when the threat of violence and harassment plagued the gay community. Read More

The government doesn’t discriminate between potential terrorists and ordinary Americans – it just goes ahead and collects information about everyone and sorts out whether it’s useful later. Read More

Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon Martin's mother, talks about how she is coping with her son's death, and her efforts to help other families who've lost loved ones to gun violence. Read More

Two men filed a lawsuit against The New York Post. saying they were falsely portrayed as the suspects behind the deadly Boston Marathon bombing. Read More

As he ran for president in 2008, Obama made clear he was committed to all national security tools in the fight against terrorism, but he was equally forceful on protecting privacy and civil rights. Read More

One of the Senate’s most vocal advocates for victims of military sexual assault said she was unsatisfied with military leaders’ testimony during the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the matter Tuesday. Read More

Civil rights groups have filed an ethics complaint against a Texas federal court judge after allegations that she made discriminatory remarks about racial minorities during a February speech. Read More

Two police officers in Jasper, Texas, have been fired after a video emerged of an altercation with an African-American woman. "I thought i was going to lose my life," she said. Read More

StopTheNRA.com offers Americans a platform to join a lobbying campaign to push for gun reform. Read More

GOP Sen. Johnny Isakson says Susan Rice is "competent" but continues call for Holder to resign. Read More

In the year since their son's death, Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton have met with other families of gun violence victims while struggling with their own loss. "It's definitely a long road that we have to travel," Martin said. Read More

A new report from the ACLU reveals that blacks and white use marijuana at equal rates, but blacks are four times more likely to get arrested for possessing it. Read More

White and black Americans smoke marijuana at more or less the same rate, but blacks are 3.73 times more likely to be arrested for possession, says a new report. Read More

In direct opposition to legislation introduced in Congress, top commanders including the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Tuesday strongly opposed removing the prosecution of assault cases in the military from the chain of command. Read More