Civil Liberties

6 Brands Playing Footsie with Conservatives and Paying the Price

By Dave Johnson / AlterNet

Companies have to do the right thing -- not the right-wing thing -- if they want to stick around.

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Pennsylvania Voter ID Case Could Upend GOP War On Voters In Swing State

By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

How the Drug War Fuels a New Racial Caste System in America

By Mark Karlin / Truthout

Chick-fil-A: 5 Reasons It's Not What You Think

By David Badash / Huffington Post

Why the Right Has New Legal Ammunition in Its Quest to End Medicare, Social Security and Our Entire Social Safety Net

By Jessica Mason Pieklo / 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

Why We Can't Depend On Activists To Create Change

Jonathan Matthew Smucker / Devoke The Apocalypse

5 Reasons the 'Pray Away the Gay' Movement Is as Vile as Ever

Kristin Rawls / AlterNet

The War on Workers' Religious Liberty

Amanda Marcotte / RH Reality Check

Why People Cave in to Extremist Ideas That Were Once Unthinkable

Glenn Greenwald / Salon

The Libertarian Con: Favorite 'Rebel' Ideology of the Ruling Class

Connor Kilpatrick / AlterNet

Can Towns Bar Chick-fil-A From Opening New Stores for Its Explicit Anti-Gay Stance?

Sam Sacks / AlterNet

Mitt Romney Disses Palestinians, Mexicans -- Who’s Next?

Ira Chernus / AlterNet

Dark Money Political Groups Target Voters Based on Their Internet Habits

Lois Beckett / ProPublica

Chomsky: The Most Powerful Country in History Is Destroying the Earth and Human Rights as We Know Them

Noam Chomsky / Tom Dispatch

Aurora Gets the Attention, But Guns Are Going Off Everywhere

Stephan Salisbury / TomDispatch

How Will the 99% Deal with the Psychopaths in the 1%?

Joe Brewer / Cognitive Policy Works

Shooting Rampages: An American Tradition

Gene H. Bell-Villada / AlterNet

12 Bigoted Taunts Peddled By Romney Camp and Allies

Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

A Piece of American History That the Corporate Capitalists Want Us to Forget: Battle of Blair Mountain

Chris Hedges / Truthdig

Racial Tensions and Questionable Killings by Police in Anaheim: 9 Things You Should Know

Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet

Did the NYPD Break International Law in Suppressing Protest?

John Knefel / AlterNet

NRA's Wayne LaPierre Has Blood on His Hands for Aurora Shooting and Many Others

Peter Dreier / AlterNet

Michael Moore: Aurora Happened in America's Culture of Twitchy, Bloodthirsty Killers

Michael Moore / MichaelMoore.com

How the Brutal Murders of a Little Girl and Her Father Doomed the Xenophobic Minuteman Movement

David Neiwert / AlterNet

Once America’s Leading Hate Group, the Neo-Nazi National Alliance Now Considered 'a Joke'

Mark Potok / Southern Poverty Law Center

Aurora: We Shouldn't Be Surprised

Paul Campos / Salon

Debunking the Latest Smear Effort by the Rabidly Anti-Choice Personhood Campaign

Lara Riscol / Religion Dispatches

Criminalizing Condoms Puts Sex Workers -- and Everyone Else -- at Risk

Michelle Chen / In These Times

Sagging Pants: Prison Uniform Represents Wreckage of Black Communities?

Kirsten West Savali / AlterNet

The New Totalitarianism: How American Corporations Have Made America Like the Soviet Union

Sara Robinson / AlterNet

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