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  • 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

  • Protection -- or paranoia?

    Why is the Secret Service treating harmless professors and pacifist homeless advocates like they're members of al-Qaida?
    By Justin Rood August 6, 2004

  • 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.
    By Gary Kamiya June 29, 2004

  • 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?
    By Scott Rosenberg March 3, 2004

  • Keeping dissent invisible

    How the Secret Service and the White House keep protesters safely out of Bush's sight -- and off TV.
    By Dave Lindorff October 16, 2003

  • 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.
    By Dave Lindorff July 25, 2003

  • 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.
    By Anne Lamott June 6, 2003

  • Your glow stick could land you in jail

    The latest incarnation of the RAVE Act punishes drug users and bystanders alike -- and tramples civil liberties.
    By Janelle Brown April 16, 2003

  • Conservative constitutional catfight!

    Right-wing activists team up with the left-wing ACLU to bash the PATRIOT Act. The Justice Department is not amused.
    By Jake Tapper April 11, 2003

  • Is CRACK wack?

    An organization that pays drug-addicted women to get sterilized is increasingly getting referrals from publicly funded agencies. Its supporters say it's saving babies from being born into hellish lives. Its critics say it's practicing "Hitleresque eugenics."
    By Daniel Costello April 8, 2003

  • Nightmare scenarios

    Would a dirty bomb make Washington uninhabitable? Would another terror offensive make civil liberties obsolete? The final installment from "After."
    By Steven Brill April 2, 2003

  • Protecting America

    In the second selection from "After," Tom Ridge is drafted for homeland security and Anthony Romero maneuvers the ACLU into the post 9/11-era.
    By Steven Brill April 1, 2003

  • 9/12

    In an excerpt from a riveting new book about post-9/11 America, GOP strongman Tom DeLay and corporate lobbyists toast their legislative clout, while John Ashcroft's men get rough with Muslim immigrants.
    By Steven Brill March 31, 2003

  • "Shut your mouth"

    As radio giants censor antiwar musicians, TV networks bully pro-peace actors, and Attorney General John Ashcroft prepares a new assault on civil liberties, a climate of intimidation creeps over America.
    By Tim Grieve March 25, 2003

  • Michael Savage's long, strange trip

    How a Jewish kid from the Bronx went from swimming naked with Allen Ginsberg to spewing the ugliest bile on talk radio.
    By David Gilson March 5, 2003

  • Senate report: FBI still unprepared

    A bipartisan report says the agency is still too cautious in dealing with terror suspects -- and has promoted the agents who bungled the Moussaoui case.
    By Jake Tapper March 3, 2003

  • Rock-ribbed Republican -- and anti-Bush

    The newest, most outspoken critics of the war on terrorism and Iraq are conservatives.
    By Michelle Goldberg December 13, 2002

  • Schoolyard chums

    While civil libertarians are furious over the Supreme Court's voucher decision, many low-income African-Americans are solidly in the conservative camp.
    By Michelle Goldberg June 29, 2002

  • When the drug war invades the chess club

    ACLU lawyer Graham Boyd discusses the impact of Thursday's Supreme Court decision to allow drug testing of students who participate in extracurricular school activities.
    By Janelle Brown June 28, 2002

  • Smoke a joint and your future is McDonald's

    A federal law passed in a burst of drug war fervor denies financial aid to the country's neediest students.
    By Janelle Brown May 20, 2002

  • Killing the messenger

    William Harvey discovered the limits of free speech when he paraded a block away from ground zero with a poster of Osama bin Laden.
    By Christopher Ketcham April 8, 2002

  • Standing up for Bush's tough laws

    Scholars defend the expansive new law enforcement powers -- and say military tribunals are justified.
    By Damien Cave and Anthony York December 6, 2001
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