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Big Think: ACLU president on the perils of government secrecy
Nadine Strossen discusses post-9/11 constraints on civil liberties and ACLU's nonpartisan role.
ACLU takes on abstinence-only ed
Will the courts stop the federal funding of programs that give kids medically inaccurate information about sex?
ACLU defeats COPA, again
Another big victory for free speech on the Internet, and Salon.
The spy who came in from the boardroom
Why John Michael McConnell, a top executive at a private defense contractor, should not be allowed to run our nation's intelligence agencies.
The government is reading your mail
But that's nothing new -- a Bush signing statement reminds us how little we know about hush-hush postal-monitoring programs, and how vulnerable they are to abuse.
Tracking sex offenders with GPS
Strict new laws call for sex offenders to be electronically monitored for life. Critics say the technology won't stop crimes but is fueling hysteria -- and is even counterproductive.
Have you heard my rape joke?
A Colorado University sophomore keeps the ACLU in business.
Turning back the clock on single-sex education
The Department of Education retools Title IX, allowing more same-sex ed.
Hunter-Gatherer Junior High
The ACLU quashes a Louisiana school board's sex-segregation plans.
U.S. agrees to release Abu Ghraib photos
Citing Salon's publication, government abandons its fight to keep images of abuse secret.
Judges grant most waivers to Florida's parental notification requirement
For at least one legislator, that means the laws not working.
Strange Bedfellows v. Bush and Cheney
A motley crew that includes Christopher Hitchens, Larry Diamond and Greenpeace is suing the NSA, claiming that Bush's wiretap program is inhibiting free speech.
E.C. in the E.R.?
The ACLU Web site adds real voices to the emergency contraception debate.
How the secular humanist grinch didn't steal Christmas
The right-wing crusade against the liberal "war on Christmas" is great for rallying the troops. Too bad the war doesn't exist.
The Pentagon's picture problems
The Army calls off its investigation of the pictures-for-porn swap just as a federal judge says the government must release more photos from Abu Ghraib.
Keeping America safer -- with science
As more evidence surfaces that the Bush administration can't be bothered with scientific accuracy, the ACLU tries framing science as a national security issue.
Still to blame
Newly declassified files on detainee abuse include sworn statements by a Pentagon employee about a military interrogator who threw the Koran on the floor and "stepped on it" -- provoking detainees to riot.
When left is right
From the Terri Schiavo case to expanded government powers in the war on terrorism, conservative libertarians are palling around an awful lot these days with the political left.
The new Monkey Trial
By persuading the Dover, Pa., school board to teach creationism, Christian zealots have provoked a showdown over the status of not just evolutionary theory, but science itself.
Protection -- or paranoia?
Why is the Secret Service treating harmless professors and pacifist homeless advocates like they're members of al-Qaida?
Resisting arrest
Six decades before Guantanamo, Fred Korematsu refused to go quietly when the government tried to put him in a prison camp because of his race.
Don't worry, be sexy
The government tells the Supreme Court that Web publishers should relax -- a Web censorship law only applies to the "worst" porn peddlers. But why should we trust it?
Keeping dissent invisible
How the Secret Service and the White House keep protesters safely out of Bush's sight -- and off TV.
Grounding the flying nun
Activists on the left and right -- including a 71-year-old Milwaukee nun and an art dealer who told other passengers that President Bush "is dumb as a rock" -- have long complained they were being hassled by airport security. After months of silence, the federal government says: It's true.
Let us commence
At the Berkeley graduation I told the students that the secret to success was simple -- ignore your parents' expectations, give money to the ACLU, and find out the truth about who you are.
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