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Jonathan Gruber, key architect of the Massachusetts health care law talks with Rachel Maddow about the law’s similarities to the Affordable Care Act

Rachel Maddow highlights a new generation of defenders against right abuses.

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Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director of the ACLU, talks with Rachel Maddow about President Obama's announcement of a sea change in U.S. counterterrorism strategy and the suggestion that we are at the beginning of the end of the war on terror.

Rachel Maddow discusses how there is money to be made in pandering to the conspiracy-minded fringe in America -- for example, in a conspiracy dating service.

Hubris: Selling the Iraq War

The Bush administration saw the attacks of 9/11 as an opportunity to remove Saddam Hussein, connected to the attacks or not.

Rachel Maddow notes that at John Brennan's confirmation hearing to head the CIA, Republicans asked him questions about leaks and releasing too much information and Democrats focusing on the CIA being more forthcoming with information.