The Rachel Maddow Show Guest List

• Richard Engel, chief foreign correspondent, NBC News
• Mark McKinnon, Republican strategist, former advisor to President George W. Bush and Senator John McCain, and he's now a contributor to "The Daily Beast."
• Caroline Moore, 14-year-old supernova discoverer

For Subscribers

FOR SUBSCRIBERSAbdul El-Sayed tries to woo MAHA voters as Democrats seek inroads with RFK’s supporters

FOR SUBSCRIBERSKratom-like substances are popping up in a typically benign supplement

FOR SUBSCRIBERSGOP super PAC increases its spending for Sen. Jon Husted in tough Ohio race

FOR SUBSCRIBERSRecords reveal tumultuous marriage between slain New York Times executive and wife

FOR SUBSCRIBERSFrom clean energy warrior to ‘wall of shame,’ James Talarico reverses on a fossil fuel money pledge

FOR SUBSCRIBERSCongressional staff planned official trip with luxury stops in Italy and France weeks before election

FOR SUBSCRIBERSA harrowing ordeal aboard an Israel-bound plane

FOR SUBSCRIBERSOpenAI CEO Sam Altman to skip congressional hearing on rogue AI agents

FOR SUBSCRIBERSKey DOJ lawyers departed Trump ‘grand conspiracy’ probe amid pressure to produce, source says

FOR SUBSCRIBERSTrump’s new AI chatbot often links to a site launched under Clinton 26 years ago

FOR SUBSCRIBERSAt MAHA summit, industry CEOs the movement once vilified take the stage

FOR SUBSCRIBERSThis Paralympian has two goals: Win medals and give away $500,000 to her teammates

FOR SUBSCRIBERSCornell rape allegation spotlights stringent New York state laws that have long drawn criticism

FOR SUBSCRIBERSThe debate over AI’s future rages on both coasts

FOR SUBSCRIBERSDecades-old march dispute reignites in Northern Ireland, threatening political crisis

For Subscribers

FOR SUBSCRIBERSAbdul El-Sayed tries to woo MAHA voters as Democrats seek inroads with RFK’s supporters

FOR SUBSCRIBERSKratom-like substances are popping up in a typically benign supplement

FOR SUBSCRIBERSGOP super PAC increases its spending for Sen. Jon Husted in tough Ohio race

FOR SUBSCRIBERSRecords reveal tumultuous marriage between slain New York Times executive and wife

FOR SUBSCRIBERSFrom clean energy warrior to ‘wall of shame,’ James Talarico reverses on a fossil fuel money pledge

FOR SUBSCRIBERSCongressional staff planned official trip with luxury stops in Italy and France weeks before election

FOR SUBSCRIBERSA harrowing ordeal aboard an Israel-bound plane

FOR SUBSCRIBERSOpenAI CEO Sam Altman to skip congressional hearing on rogue AI agents

FOR SUBSCRIBERSKey DOJ lawyers departed Trump ‘grand conspiracy’ probe amid pressure to produce, source says

FOR SUBSCRIBERSTrump’s new AI chatbot often links to a site launched under Clinton 26 years ago

FOR SUBSCRIBERSAt MAHA summit, industry CEOs the movement once vilified take the stage

FOR SUBSCRIBERSThis Paralympian has two goals: Win medals and give away $500,000 to her teammates

FOR SUBSCRIBERSCornell rape allegation spotlights stringent New York state laws that have long drawn criticism

FOR SUBSCRIBERSThe debate over AI’s future rages on both coasts

FOR SUBSCRIBERSDecades-old march dispute reignites in Northern Ireland, threatening political crisis

From the Web:

• John Hodgman: "AFTER SOME TIME OF suffering through the anxious nausea alone, I may now tell you: I WILL BE SPEAKING at the upcoming Radio and Television Correspondents’ Dinner. AS OF THIS WRITING, I am scheduled to speak after the President of the United States (Barack Obama) WHICH MAKES SENSE, as I am the most dynamic public speaker of our times."
• Richard Engel: Iran on a 'collision course'
• Mark McKinnon: Ensign, get your sorry ass out of the Senate
• Teenage girl discovers new type of supernova
• The story about SN2008ha
• Auto-Tune the News #5: lettuce regulation. American blessings.
  

• Reza Aslan, columnist, The Daily Beast, author, "How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror," and senior fellow, Orfalea Center on Global and International Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara
• Ana Marie Cox, national correspondent, Air America Radio and contributor, Playboy magazine
• Wayne Slater, senior political reporter, Dallas Morning News
• Derrick Pitts, the Chief Astronomer at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia

From the Web:

• Reza Aslan and Eli Lake on where-to from here for Iran
• Iran election turnouts exceeded 100% in 30 towns, website reports (Source is in Farsi)
• Ana Marie Cox: The Inside Story
• House GOP Solutions Group Outlines Health Care Plan to Increase Affordability, Accessibility, Availability
• Lunar Crater Observation adn Sensing Satellite (with countdown clocks!)
• Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
• That Obama fly slap remix.
  

• Reza Aslan, senior fellow, Orfalea Center on Global and International Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara. Also author of "How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror"
• Joe Cirincione, president, The Ploughshares Fund. Also author of "Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons"
• Michael Isikoff, investigative journalist, Newsweek
• Congresswoman Tammy  Baldwin, the first openly gay non-incumbent ever elected to Congress. Also co-founder of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus, and just last month re-introduced the Domestic Partners Benefits and Obligations Act.

From the Web:

• International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran
• Reza Aslan: Iran's military coup
• Joe Cirincione: Iran Uprising Changes Nuclear Calculus
• Financial regulation explainer: How Obama's regulation plan aims to fix what went wrong
• Michael Isikoff: Haunted by the Dean of Watergate
• White House Fact Sheet on federal benefits and non-discrimination
• The Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act (S. 1102, H.R. 2517)
• Roll Call: Congressional Baseball Game

• Trita Parsi, president, National Iranian American Council and author of "Treacherous Alliance"
• Ali Arouzi, NBC News Tehran Bureau Chief
• Nico Pitney, national editor, The Huffington Post
• Michael Lewis, financial writer and columnist, Bloomberg News

From the Web:

• National Iranian American Council's blog
• Ali Arouzi: Second day of Iran protests mostly peaceful
• Nico Pitney: Iran Updates (video): Live-blogging the uprising
• From NBC's Chuck Todd, Ken Strickland and Domenico Montanaro: Ensign admits affair, claims extortion
• Michael Lewis: Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood
• Michael Lewis: Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity
• Spinal Tap: Back from the dead

• Ben Wizner, lawyer at the ACLU's National Security Project
• Fawaz Gerges, Christian A. Johnson Chairholder in Middle Eastern Studies and International Affairs, Sarah Lawrence College
• Richard Engel, chief foreign correspondent, NBC News
• Dr. Howard Dean, former DNC chair, Vermont governor

From the Web:

• ACLU: Newly Released Detainee Statements Provide More Evidence Of CIA Torture Program (6/15/2009)
• ACLU: RELEASED: The Bush Administration's Secret Legal Memos
• ACLU Torture FOIA Search
• Fawaz Gerges: Commentary: Iran's nuclear work will go on
• Fawaz Gerges: Commentary: Ahmadinejad's problem with women
• In the Maddow Map Room:

• Richard Engel: Social media makes mark in Iran 
• Obama defends DOMA in federal court. Says banning gay marriage is good for the federal budget. Invokes incest and marrying children. (Scroll for document)
• World Naked Bike Ride (NSFW, contains boobies)