Civil Liberties

Roseanne Barr: The War on Drugs Is Just Plain Crazy

By Roseanne Barr / Huffington Post

The War on Drugs: Now, after all these years, it even sounds dumb and tiresome.

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Julian Assange: Hunted by America's Violent Empire

By JoAnn Wypijewski / The Nation

Former DEA Heads Tell Eric Holder to Publicly Dismiss Weed Legalization

By Phillip Smith / Drug War Chronicle

How Paul Ryan Flip-Flopped From 'Leave it Up to the States' to Anti-Legalization in One Weekend

By Stephen C. Webster / Raw Story

Is Privacy Dead? 4 Government and Private Entities Conspiring to Track Everything You Do Online and Off

By David Rosen / 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

3 Ways the GOP Has Already Disenfranchised Thousands of Swing-State Voters

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

The Moment Everything Changed: A Young Woman Shares Her Terrifying Deportation Story

Jacqueline Guzmán-Garcia / New America Media

Civil Rights Hotline Reveals 3 Dangerous Trends Following Alabama's Anti-Immigrant Law

Walter Ewing / Immigration Impact

America's Ku Klux Klan Mentality

Lawrence Davidson / Consortium News

Freedom University Creates Educational Space for Undocumented Students

Vanessa Perez / Huffington Post

Obama Ruling Shields Torturers--What Horrors From the CIA Can We Expect Next?

Ray McGovern / Consortium News

Years Later, Human Trafficking Survivors at Risk of Re-Exploitation

Ambika Kandasamy / New America Media/ SF Public Press

Obama's Big Finale at the DNC -- Dems Are More Agressive, United Than We've Seen in Years

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

A $2,167.02 Water Bill? How a Water Company Forced a 91-year-old Woman To Sell Her Home

Wenonah Hauter / Progressive Populist

5 Surprising Consequences of the War on Drugs

Norm Stamper / AlterNet

When Did Dissent Become a Crime? America's Police State on Steroids at the Conventions

Arun Gupta / AlterNet

Major Networks Will Run Marijuana Legalization Ads During the DNC

Stephen C. Webster / Raw Story

6 Reasons We Need to Protect America from Texas Politicians

Dave Johnson / AlterNet

How Your Movements Are Being Tracked, Probably Without Your Knowledge

Tana Ganeva / AlterNet

Prisoners Treated Like Cattle in New Orleans

Karen Houppert / Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute

Catching Up With Mexico's "Caravan for Peace" as the Roving Protest Heads to Washington, D.C.

Phillip Smith / Drug War Chronicle

Goodbye, Liberty! 10 Ways Americans Are No Longer Free

Richard (R.J.) Eskow / AlterNet

CORRECTION: "Gun Owners to Shoot 'Illegal' Voters" Hoax

Arun Gupta / AlterNet

Optimistic or Delusional? Why Gay Republicans Stand By Their Party’s Bigoted Platform

Peter Montgomery / AlterNet

Why the GOP Is Getting Away With Extremist Laws

Jessica Mason Pieklo / RH Reality Check

The 99% Take on the Republican National Convention

Arun Gupta / AlterNet

A Hard Life in the Fields Starting at Age 7

David Bacon / New American Media

Crazy Country: 6 Reasons America Spends More on Prisons Than On Higher Education

Les Leopold / AlterNet

I Had a Terrifying Illegal Abortion -- That's Why I Will Always Fight for Legal, Safe Access

Jan Wilberg / Salon

Undocumented Women Seeking Abortions Must Pass Texas 'Border' Checkpoints

Thanh Tan / New America Media

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