Lost liberties

  • The prisoner-abuse scandal at home

    The stories sound familiar: Muslim prisoners beaten and sexually humiliated by American guards. But it happened in Brooklyn, not Baghdad.
    By Michelle Goldberg May 19, 2004

  • Banished from the American dream

    The Kesbehs were a hardworking immigrant family with a successful business and deep roots in Houston. But after 9/11, the U.S. kicked them, along with thousands of other Arab and Muslim families, out of the country. Now, in a land the children barely know, they wonder why their life has been shattered.
    By Michelle Goldberg April 26, 2004

  • A thousand J. Edgar Hoovers

    State and local police are taking it upon themselves to investigate antiwar activists -- and in the computer age, the threat to our civil liberties is even greater than it was in Hoover's day.
    By Michelle Goldberg February 12, 2004

  • Outlawing dissent

    Spying on peace meetings, cracking down on protesters, keeping secret files on innocent people -- how Bush's war on terror has become a war on freedom.
    By Michelle Goldberg February 11, 2004

  • "This is not America"

    In Miami, police unleashed unprecedented fury on demonstrators -- most of them seniors and union members. Is this how Bush's war on terror will be fought at home?
    By Michelle Goldberg December 16, 2003
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