Civil Liberties

Is Romney's Outdated View of Family a Threat to Modern Society?

By Nicole Rodgers / Role Reboot

Mitt Romney's attack on unmarried people during this week's debate left me wondering: Are his outdated family values becoming a threat to ours?

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Right-Winger's Weird Proposal to Ban the Sale of Food That Contains Aborted Fetuses Trips on Ancient History

By Tina Dupuy / The Skeptic

Citizens United, Obamacare -- The Roberts Court Is Just Getting Started

By David Morris / On the Commons

Revealed: How Ronald Reagan, J. Egdar Hoover, and the FBI Plotted to Crush 1960s Dissidents

By Steve Wasserman / The Nation

Barely Mentioned In the Debates: Abortion Rights

By Tracy Weitz / AlterNet

"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

Welcome to Ted Nugent's Gun Country! Discovery Channel and TV's Descent Into Total Idiocy

Alexander Zaitchik / Media Matters

Sexual Abuse, Embezzlement and Shooting Homeless People With Paintballs: National Guard's Culture of Criminality Revealed

Alex Kane / AlterNet

Lawsuit Alleges Right-Wing Billionaire William Koch Kidnapped, Imprisoned a Former Executive

Alex Kane / AlterNet

Koch Industries Orders Workers Not To Discuss Kochs' Politics On Social Media

Brendan Fischer / PR Watch

Moyers: How Corporations and Right-Wing Groups Take Aim at Judges Whose Rulings They Dislike

Bill Moyers, Michael Winship / BillMoyers.com

Women Are the Key to the Presidential Debate and Election

Ruth Rosen / Open Democracy 50.50

Not Just a Union Buster: Why Some of the Nation’s Most Vociferously Anti-Gay Religious Activists Are Backing California's Prop 32

Matthew Fleischer / Frying Pan News

Who Will Fight for Affirmative Action?

Perry Bacon Jr. / The Grio

Kids in Solitary Confinement: America's Official Child Abuse

Jean Casella, James Ridgeway / Comment Is Free

Court Blocks NYC's Attempt to Halt the Lawsuit Against Stop and Frisk

Laura Gottesdiener / AlterNet

Can You Date Someone With Different Political Views Than You?

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Watch: Cops Harass, Grope, and Threaten Teenager “For Being a F*cking Mutt"

Jamilah King / ColorLines

Rebellious Children, Watch Out--GOP Candidate Endorses Death Penalty for Kids

Alex Kane / AlterNet

Lesbian Mom Claims Shady Christian Fundamentalists Helped Abduct her Child

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Wealthy Neighbors Cry 'Not in My Back Yard!' Over Pay-What-You-Can Restaurant's Low-Income Customers

Lauren Kelley / AlterNet

Kids Tagged With RFID Chips? The Creepy New Technology Schools Use to Track Everything Kids Do -- And the Profit Motive Behind It

David Rosen / AlterNet

Pro-Tolerance Subway Ads to Hang Near Anti-Islam Posters

Natasha Lennard / Salon

The Unbelievable Inhumanity of Solitary Confinement - And Punishment for as Little as Reading a Book

Laura Gottesdiener / AlterNet

Rosario Dawson: “There Is a Sadness to the Latino American Voter”

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Fact: Romney's Big Dream of Repealing Obama's Health Reforms Would Raise the Abortion Rate

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

WA Initiative to Legalize Pot Enjoys Popularity at the Polls -- So Why Are Some Pot Activists Against It?

Phillip Smith / Drug War Chronicle

Dark Secret of the US Military -- Neo-Nazis and Criminals Are Filling Its Ranks

Matt Kennard / Verso

Court Rules Severely Disabled Woman Wasn't Raped Because She Didn't 'Bite, Kick or Scratch' Her Assailant

Zack Beauchamp / Think Progress

How the Camera On Your Cellphone Can Be Captured and Used to Spy on You

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

“A Bunch of Crap”--Senate Report Slams DHS Terrorism Centers

Laura Gottesdiener / AlterNet

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