Electoral vote split plans face GOP backlash

theGRIO REPORT - Republican-backed plans to make electoral voting in swing states like Michigan, Virginia, Ohio and Florida proportional has had progressives and civil rights groups nervous for weeks...

Bobby Jindal: Republicans must change everything

Associated Press

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (AP) - The governor of Louisiana, seen as a potential presidential candidate in 2016, is calling on the Republican Party to 'recalibrate the compass of conservatism'...

On debt ceiling, Obama forces Republicans to blink

Perry Bacon Jr.

ANALYSIS - President Obama has forced congressional Republicans to abandon long-held positions and accept Obama's in a major fiscal debate for the second time in less a month...

Obama, Biden receive gifts from GOP lawmakers

Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional leaders have given President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden gifts, including flags that flew over the Capitol…

Colin Powell criticizes GOP's push for voter ID laws

Brittany Tom

VIDEO - On MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' yesterday, former Secretary of State Colin Powell says that the Republican Party needs to be more inclusive when it comes to voting at the polls...

Powell speaks out on GOP 'intolerance'

theGrio

VIDEO - Gen. Colin Powell slammed the Republican Party Sunday for what he calls a 'dark vein of intolerance' running through it, saying members of the GOP "still look down on minorities" and that the party needs to change, or it's 'going to be in trouble'...

House re-elects Boehner speaker

Donna Cassata, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - The House and Senate ushered in a new Congress Thursday, re-electing embattled Republican John Boehner speaker and hailing one of their own who returned a year after being felled by a stroke...

Tim Scott to become US senator

Perry Bacon Jr.

theGRIO REPORT - Rep. Tim Scott, a Republican, is expected to be appointed Monday to the U.S. Senate seat that South Carolina's Jim DeMint is vacating...

The war against Susan Rice takes toll on GOP

Joy-Ann Reid

OPINION - It was a bad day for the Republican Party, which already has, to put it mildly, an image problem with minorities and women...

GOP pollster: 'Republicans have run out of white voters'

Marquise Francis

theGRIO REPORT - Republicans are in jeopardy of becoming a 'regional party' of disaffected white supporters if they do not gain support from Latinos...