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Chairman of the Republican National Committee Reince Priebus flashes a thumbs up (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

RNC chair: It’s not what we say, it’s how we say it

RNC Chair Reince Priebus and his team reached out to more than 50,000 Americans to find out why they lost the last election. The big takeaway from the resulting report? It's time to rebrand and remarket. Read More

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Gingrich-Santorum 2012? The secret ‘unity’ ticket that almost was

How Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum nearly joined forces for a unity ticket that could have changed history. Read More

Iraq War Veterans Aganst the War, protest outside the White House in Washington DC on March 19, 2013, marking the 10th anniversary of the Iraq war. The organizers launched the "right to heal" campaign, addressing the human rights violations in Iraq.(Photo by Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images)

Dying vet to Bush, Cheney: ‘My day of reckoning is upon me. Yours will come’

Tomas Young writes, "You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes..." Read More

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Campbell Brown: ‘Breast milk flying everywhere,’ – How do you lean in?

'I’m sitting in a dirty closet on the floor behind the auditorium where this debate is taking place between Obama, Hillary Clinton and I’m pumping breast milk…twenty minutes before I’m going on," Brown said.'How do you lean in at that moment?' Read More

File Photo: Former chairman of the Republican National Committee Michael S. Steele attends day two of the Democratic National Convention at Time Warner Cable Arena on September 5, 2012 in Charlotte, North Carolina.  (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/File)

Steele: How can GOP reach minorities when its policies are seen as racist?

"How does Reince Priebus reconcile his approach and his agreement with voter registration policies that many in the black community view as anti-black, racist?" Michael Steele asks. Read More

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Scarborough to pols: ‘Lots of luck explaining’ your vote against background checks

"But if you're a Republican and you're voting against something that 92 percent of Americans support? Lots of luck.... Lots of luck explaining that on the campaign trail. I hope you and Wayne LaPierre enjoy your time outside of public service," says Scarborough on Morning Joe. Read More

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Former CBO director: Why too much debt means too little growth

"All you've got to do is look at the historical record and countries get too much debt grow slower than countries who look the same, and have the same approach to economic policy, but have less debt," says former CBO director Douglas Holtz-Eakin Read More

Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford votes on Tuesday, March 19, 2013, at a polling place in Charleston, S.C. Sanford, trying to make a political comeback, is one of 16 Republicans running Tuesday in the GOP primary in a special election to fill South Carolina's vacant 1st Congressional District seat. (Photo by Bruce Smith/AP)

Voter ID law takes effect in South Carolina special election

Tuesday's South Carolina special election primary is a first: Under the state's new voter ID law, all voters are now required to show photo identification at the polls. And with 18 candidates on the ballot--including once-disgraced Former Gov. Mark Sanford and celebrity sister Elizabeth Colbert Busch--every vote counts. Read More

File Photo: A woman in the gallery is overcome by emotion after a bill sponsored by Assemblyman Reed Gusciora D-Trenton, legalizing same-sex marriages, passes and is the final Legislative approval for Marriage Equality at the State House in Trenton, N.J., Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. (Photo by Rich Schultz/AP Photo, File)

Joe Scarborough: People across the political spectrum still oppose gay marriage

Although a growing number of politicians and registered voters recently stated their support for marriage equality, there are people along the political spectrum who are against legalizing the issue. Read More

FILE: Latin American demonstrators protest during an immigration reform rally in front of the U.S. Capitol on Capitol Hill in Washington in this October 13, 2009 file photo. (File Photo by Jose Luis Magana/Reuters)

RNC report: GOP ‘must embrace’ and ‘champion’ immigration reform

The RNC’s “Growth and Opportunity Project”—a self-assessment of the GOP’s 2012 performance, released Monday—diagnoses the party with a dire messaging problem. But the surprising news from the Republican report? It supports comprehensive immigration reform. Read More

First lady Michelle Obama and Food Network chef Rachel Ray discuss the lunches students from the Eastside and Northside Elementary Schools receive during a "Let's Move!" program at the Clinton, Miss., schools Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. The pair visited with the children and conducted a cooking contest between the schools' chefs. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Report: Healthy students are better students

Children who are physically active and well-nourished have better memory and perform more efficiently on standardized exams than students who do not follow a balanced diet. Read More

Gov. Rick Snyder says he's giving "extra consideration" to a bill that would make it easier to carry guns in Michigan schools (Photo by Carlos Osorio/AP)

Michigan governor defends Emergency Manager power grab: I’m the elected official responsible

"The first step is getting boots on the ground," Detroit's new Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr said on Friday's Morning Joe. Orr, who was appointed by Gov. Rick Snyder on Thursday, said he views the citizens of Michigans as his "customers" whom he needs to help immediately. Read More

Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, speaks to reporters in the spin room after the second presidential debate at Hofstra University, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012 Hempstead, N.Y. (Photo  by Mary Altaffer/AP Photo, File)

Sen. Rob Portman ‘wrestled’ with decision

Two years ago, Republican Sen. Rob Portman's son told him he was gay. On Friday, the conservative from Ohio, who was once on Mitt Romney's shortlist for a running mate, reversed his anti-gay-marriage position. Read More

U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass. (Photo by Steven Senne/AP)

Barney Frank: Cutting military spending isn’t a radical idea

As long as Barney Frank has advocated cutting military spending, he’s been criticized for it. But he’s not the only one who sees the merit in the unpopular budget fix. Read More

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Think the NRA is controlled by gun makers? Think again

Bloomberg Businessweek debunks the biggest myth about the NRA: that they're working for the gun makers. Read More

Newly elected Pope Francis I speaks to the waiting crowd from the central balcony of St Peter's Basilica on March 13, 2013 in Vatican City, Vatican. Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected as the 266th Pontiff and will lead the world's 1.2 billion Catholics.

Pope Francis’ mission: Refocusing on what Catholicism is really about

I have never been anywhere in the world, working, writing a newspaper column, from distant, sometime dangerous places like Cambodia, Vietnam, Northern Ireland… Read More

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‘Show people the good and kind Catholic Church that I love’

Now that we have a new Pope, I hope that he will open the Church's doors, says Mika Brzezinksi Read More

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An excerpt from Rita Moreno’s “Rita Moreno: A Memoir”

An excerpt from Rita Moreno's "Rita Moreno: A Memoir" Read More

Republican vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan, speaks during a campaign event in Richmond, Va., during the 2012 presidential election. (Photo: Mary Altaffer/AP)

Paul Ryan suggests Obama ‘charm offensive’ could be poll driven

Congressman Paul Ryan, the former running mate of Mitt Romney, is questioning the sincerity of President Obama's overtures to GOP legislators in recent weeks. Read More

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An excerpt from Lanny Davis’ “Crisis Tales: Five Rules for Coping with Crises in Business, Politics, and Life”

An excerpt from Lanny Davis' "Crisis Tales: Five Rules for Coping with Crises in Business, Politics, and Life" Read More