Civil Liberties

Chaos, Disinformation and Glitches Plague Key States -- Our Broken Election System in Action

By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

There are a number of troubling reports.

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Court Rejects Last-Minute Bid To Block Ohio From Using Software Patch on Voting Machines

By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

How Republicans' Nasty Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric May Come Back to Bite Mitt Romney on the Ass This Election Day

By Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Supporters of Mitt Romney Are Pushing Ultra-Conservative Christian Agendas in Africa That Criminalize Gays and Threaten Women's Health

By Kapya Kaoma / Political Research Associates

10 Ways Proposition 32 Would Hurt California and Catapult the Conservative Agenda in the State

By Matthew Fleischer / Frying Pan News

"Isolation Rooms" in Elementary Schools: Are They Treatment or Punishment?

5 Ways Speeding and Red Lights Cameras Are Causing Political Outrage

How I Changed My Mind About the Jeffrey MacDonald Murder Case

Civil Liberties

What Jewish Voters Should Know About the Source of Those 'Support Israel? Fire Obama' Yard Signs

Rachel Tabachnick / Talk To Action

Can One New Film Spread Drug War Outrage Across the Globe?

Helen Redmond / AlterNet

Paul Ryan to Right-Wing Activists: Obama Policies ‘Compromise Judeo-Christian Values’

Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

Voter Fraud Is Rare – and in This Cycle, It's All Been Committed by Republicans

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Bomb Scares, Belligerent Tea Partiers and Last-Minute Disenfranchisement – This Election Is Already Ugly

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

GOP Sen. Candidate Todd Akin Arrested 8 Times for Anti-Abortion Extremism -- "Had to be Carried Out by Police"

Frederick Clarkson / Daily Kos

Republicans Whip Up Fears of Rigged Voting Machines to Delegitimize a Likely Obama Win

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

California Voters: What You Need to Know About Important State Ballot Initiatives

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

The Romney I Battled Compared Marriage Equality for LGBT People to Slavery

Marc Solomon / Huffington Post

Republican Activist Makes Up Story of Being Beaten by Homophobic Liberals

Laura Gottesdiener / AlterNet

Number of States in Which Rapists Can Sue For Custody and Visitation Rights -- 31 -- and Other Shocking Rape Facts

Soraya Chemaly / Huffington Post

10 of the Harshest Sentences for Pot in the U.S.

Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet

A Real-Life Political Ad: Wrongly-Convicted Man Speaks Out About Ending the Death Penalty in California

Franky Carrillo / SAFE California

15 Things Neither Romney Nor Obama Is Brave Enough to Stand For

Bill Quigley / AlterNet

How the Rich Are Turning State and Local Races Into Their Own Personal Political Playgrounds

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Few Politicians Actually Understand What "Health of the Mother” Really Means

Suzanne Edwards / Salon.com

Why Bogus Hate Crimes Are All the Rage

Mark Potok / SPLC's Hate Watch

Is the 'Castle Doctrine' a License to Kill? Montana Man Kills Girlfriend's Unarmed Husband and Gets Off

Alex Kane / AlterNet

Not Just Mourdock -- Meet 7 Other Republicans Trying to Block Abortion for Rape Victims

Igor Volsky / Think Progress

How an Innocent 26-Year-Old Got Sold Into Guantanamo Hell for a $5,000 Bounty

Jason Leopold / TruthOut.org

Oral Sex, Yoga, and God's Eternal Wrath: Inside the New Hipster Megachurch That Tells Modern Women to Submit

Alison Sargent / Bitch Magazine

Why Is it So Hard for Police to Admit They've Messed Up?

Sue Russell / Pacific Standard

Why Are There So Few Female Plutocrats?

Chrystia Freeland / The Penguin Press

6 Things We Need To Do To Repair America's Crumbling Democracy

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Will the Apocalypse Arrive Online?

Karen J. Greenberg / TomDispatch

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