Civil Liberties

America's Own Pet Terror Organization Gets a Very Special Treatment

By Glenn Greenwald / Salon

The Huffington Post publishes, and then deletes, a post by a MeK spokesman. What does this tell us about Terrorism?

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More Fallout From Citizens United: Corporations Granted More Power to Propagandize to Americans

By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Politicizing the DREAM Act and Immigration

By Cesar Vargas / Huffington Post

It’s More Complicated Than “Legal vs. Illegal”: An Open Letter to Ruben Navarrette

By Prerna Lal / New America Media

What Will the 2012 Electorate Look Like?

By Pili Tobar / America's Voice

"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 Secrets Is Your Cell Phone Company Telling the Government About You?

David Rosen / AlterNet

ACLU Offers Rebuttal to Mark Ames Article About Human Rights Groups and Labor Unions

Steve Shapiro / AlterNet

The NYPD Boasts They Thwarted 14 Terror Attacks -- Why They Are Full of B.S.

Justin Elliott / ProPublica

Some States Attempt to Move Forward on Immigration Laws Following Supreme Court Decision

Seth Hoy / Immigration Impact

Noam Chomsky on the Shredding of Our Fundamental Rights and the Common Good

Noam Chomsky / AlterNet

Police Reform Activists Targeted by NYPD Won't Give In to Threats

Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet

The Day After The Fourth of July

Mike Lux / Daily Kos

Weimar America: Four Major Ways We're Following In Germany's Fascist Footsteps

Robert Cruickshank / AlterNet

Red, White, and Blue No Longer: Religion and A Non-White American Future

Peter Laarman / Religion Dispatches

Glenn Greenwald: How America's Surveillance State Breeds Conformity and Fear

Glenn Greenwald / AlterNet

Hey Everyone, Stop Complaining About Obamacare: Here's Why We Won a Considerable Victory

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Salvation Army Learns What Oreo Cookies Already Knows: Americans Like Groups That Support Gay Rights

Lauren Kelley / AlterNet

New Study: "Stand Your Ground" Laws Lead to Increased Deaths

Kay Steiger / Raw Story

Conservative Southern Values Revived: How a Brutal Strain of American Aristocrats Have Come to Rule America

Sara Robinson / AlterNet

When Your Father Is Accused of Terrorism

Laila Al-Arian / The Nation

Cellphone Companies Will Share Your Location Data -- Just Not With You

Megha Rajagopalan / ProPublica

The 7 Most Anti-Gay Congressmembers

Josh Israel, Adam Peck / ThinkProgress

Ripped Off by Smugglers, Groped by Border Patrol: The Nightmares Women Migrants Face

Erika L. Sanchez / AlterNet

How Right-Wingers on the Supreme Court Sold Our Democracy Down the River -- Again

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Supremes Gut Arizona's Immigration Law; Scalia Strikes Down Results of the Civil War

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Why Is the Government Collecting Your Biometric Data?

Tana Ganeva / AlterNet

Attention Latinas: Arizona May Be The Worst Place in U.S. to Live

Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas / Huffington Post

Latest GOP Election Law Violation: Keep Fat Cat Donors' Names Secret

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Does the Liberal Establishment Care About Anything But Itself? The Hard Lessons of Wisconsin

Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

Progressive Candidate Darcy Burner: How I Became the Target of a Right-Wing Smear Campaign

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

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