Civil Liberties

America Never Really Ended Slavery

By Jazz Hayden / AlterNet

The new form of slavery has the same intent and purpose as the old: to rob us of our labor and to keep us powerless.

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What if Iranians Waterboarded Americans?

By Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch.com

Water Torture, as American as Apple Pie

By Nick Turse / TomDispatch.com

Most Mass Shootings Target Women and Families; Study Finds Men With Legal Guns Are to Blame

By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Top U.S. Terrorist Group: the FBI

By David Swanson / davidswanson.org

4 Inhumane Realities about the Guantanamo Hunger Strike

Arresting a Teen Girl for Dozing Off in Class? Why Normal Kid Behavior Is Treated As a Crime or Psychiatric Disorder

How the US Turned Three Pacifists Into 'Multiple Felony Saboteurs'

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Civil Liberties

100 Years Worth of Federal Prison Charges for Alleged 'Hactivist'?

Christian Stork / WhoWhatWhy.com

Cover Ups, Corruption and Death: What Private Prison Co. Doesn't Want You to Know about Its Stadium Sponsorship

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

Former CIA Agent, Anti-Torture Activist John Kiriakou Toasted By Progressives as He Prepares For Prison

Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

Gun Owners Are Obsessed with Zombies

Marc Herman / Pacific Standard

Inside the Bush Administration's Lawless Global Torture Regime (And How Obama Remains Complicit)

Alex Kane / AlterNet

Cops Are Recruiting Young Informants in the Drug War -- and Risking Their Lives

Amy Goodman / Democracy Now!

American Assassination History for Dummies

Mark Ames / Not Safe for Work Corporation

Michael Moore: How My Friend and Current Oscar Nominee Was Held and Threatened with Deportation at LAX

Michael Moore / AlterNet

GOP Activists Behind Three Troubling Supreme Court Cases Aimed at Dismantling Our Democracy

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Mississippi Finally 'Officially' Banned Slavery -- But It's Alive and Well in America and the Rest of the World

Laura Gottesdiener / AlterNet

Did Detroit Area Cops Send Transgender Teen to her Death?

Jack Bouboushian / Courthouse News

5 Times Police Killed People with Mental Disabilities

Laura Gottesdiener / AlterNet

What Could Go Wrong? White House to Partner With Big Business to Combat 'Online Radicalization'

Alex Kane / AlterNet

Glenn Greenwald: How Can Anyone Still Believe That America Is the Greatest Country on Earth?

Glenn Greenwald / Comment Is Free

Arrested for Your Politics in America? It's Already Happening

Charlotte Silver / Al Jazeera

Which Countries Helped the CIA With Their Dirty Torture Work and Which Didn't?

Greg Grandin / TomDispatch

When Prostitution Wasn't a Crime: The Fascinating History of Sex Work in America

Melissa Gira Grant / AlterNet

Full-Body Pat-Downs in America's Schools: How the War on Drugs Is a War on Children

Patricia J. Williams / The Nation

Meet 6 Politicians Getting Rich from America's Endless Wars

John Knefel / AlterNet

The NDAA and the Death of the Democratic State

Chris Hedges / Truthdig

Why the LAPD's Hunt for Dorner Is Indefensible

David Cay Johnston / Salon

Two New Polls Obscure American Views of Obama's Drone Program

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Work is Becoming More Like Prison As Some Workers Forced to Wear Electronic Bands That Track Everything They Do (Including Bathroom Breaks)

Tana Ganeva / AlterNet

What Are My Rights When Marijuana Is Legal?

Scott Morgan / Flex Your Rights

15-Year-Old Girl Raped, Police Dismiss the Case Because Victim and Attackers Have "Low IQs"

Laura Gottesdiener / AlterNet

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