MSNBC host Alex Wagner discussed the epidemic of rape in the military. And Last Word producer Stephen Lewis told us about the award Joy Reid will be receiving Friday for being a "media legend." Read More

Wade Davis said 49ers player Chris Culliver's recent comments about gay men in sports will open dialogue before the biggest game of the year, the Super Bowl. Read More

Scott Brown won't run for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by John Kerry, several news outlets report. Read More

On Hillary Clinton's last day as secretary of state, she told the Associated Press in an exit interview that the Benghazi attacks was the lowest moment of her diplomatic career and said that she is finally looking forward to sleeping in later. Read More

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell shares more testimony from the Newtown hearings--a powerful account that the Senate should have heard. "Can I please talk to my patients about the risks of gun violence?" pleaded an ER doc. Read More

Gov. Deval Patrick joined The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell to talk about his choice for interim senator from Mass. And he had some props for The Last Word host. Read More

After the show, Krystal Ball discussed the NRA's evolving position on universal background checks. Plus, Dr. Richard Friedman analyzed the relationship between mental illness and access to guns in regard to mass killings. Read More

Chuck Hagel is on Capitol Hill today facing his former Senate colleagues for his first confirmation hearing for Secretary of Defense, and the road to securing the nomination does not seem easy. Read More

Once more, a Sandy Hook victim's parent called for stricter gun laws. MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell played the whole testimony, pointing out that no one from Newtown testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Read More

The gun advocate said banning “scary-looking" assault weapons puts women at a "great disadvantage" fending off violent male attackers. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell challenged her on that claim. Read More

On Tuesday's Very Last Word, MSNBC's Richard Wolffe, Joy Reid, and Ari Melber compared family immigration stories and discussed the difficulty of the immigration process. Read More

More than five years after the start of the Great Recession, America is still in the throes of an unemployment crisis. But as they haggle over the deficit, Congress and the Obama administration seem to have given up. Read More

O'Donnell had suggested former Rep. Barney Frank, but Massachussetts Gov. Deval Patrick stuck with his adviser, Mo Cowan. Read More

The gun control debate was front and center on Capitol Hill today as the Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimonies on gun violence from witnesses including former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the NRA's Wayne LaPierre. Read More

“You must act. Be bold, be courageous. Americans are counting on you,” former Rep. Gabby Giffords told lawmakers Wednesday at a Senate hearing on gun control. Read More

Talking to a group of college students, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia argued that our Constitution is a document that is "dead, dead, dead." One person who may not necessarily agree with that interpretation? President Lincoln. Read More

The Last Word host Lawrence O'Donnell slammed the “gun-worshiping fanatics" who dared to heckle a grieving parent for posing a serious question on gun control. Read More

Conservatives have spoken a lot about party reinvention since the presidential election, but the rhetoric has yet to translate into real change. Read More

On Monday's Very Last Word, Victoria DeFrancesco Soto and MSNBC's Steve Kornacki discussed the issues that matter to Latinos, and whether Latinos vote on the single issue of immigration. Read More

President Obama made an aggressive case for an immediate overhaul of U.S. immigration laws during a speech in Las Vegas, giving momentum to the Senate's new bipartisan push towards reform. Read More