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The Pentagon says no sexual abuse, no Abu Ghraib photos among those held back in ACLU suit.
By Mark Benjamin Jun 2, 2009

  • Can pregnant cops still work?

    The ACLU is representing five Detroit police officers forced to take sick leave after getting pregnant. Why not just give them desk duty?
    By Sarah Hepola October 15, 2008

  • 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.
    March 24, 2008

  • ACLU takes on abstinence-only ed

    Will the courts stop the federal funding of programs that give kids medically inaccurate information about sex?
    By Carol Lloyd April 26, 2007

  • ACLU defeats COPA, again

    Another big victory for free speech on the Internet, and Salon.
    By Joan Walsh March 22, 2007

  • 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.
    By Tim Shorrock January 8, 2007

  • 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.
    By Mark Benjamin January 5, 2007

  • 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.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski December 19, 2006

  • Have you heard my rape joke?

    A Colorado University sophomore keeps the ACLU in business.
    By Chris Colin November 10, 2006

  • Turning back the clock on single-sex education

    The Department of Education retools Title IX, allowing more same-sex ed.
    By Marisa Meltzer October 25, 2006

  • Hunter-Gatherer Junior High

    The ACLU quashes a Louisiana school board's sex-segregation plans.
    By Tracy Clark-Flory August 10, 2006

  • U.S. agrees to release Abu Ghraib photos

    Citing Salon's publication, government abandons its fight to keep images of abuse secret.
    By Mark Benjamin and Michael Scherer March 29, 2006

  • Judges grant most waivers to Florida's parental notification requirement

    For at least one legislator, that means the laws not working.
    By Lynn Harris January 18, 2006

  • 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.
    By Michael Scherer January 18, 2006

  • E.C. in the E.R.?

    The ACLU Web site adds real voices to the emergency contraception debate.
    By Lynn Harris November 23, 2005

  • 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.
    By Michelle Goldberg November 21, 2005

  • 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.
    By Tim Grieve September 29, 2005

  • 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.
    By Page Rockwell June 21, 2005

  • 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.
    By Joe Conason May 27, 2005

  • 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.
    By Mark Follman March 23, 2005

  • 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.
    By Michelle Goldberg January 10, 2005
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