Civil Liberties

Right-Wing Churches Threaten the Boy Scouts: You Better Keep Discriminating Against Gays

By Katie McDonough / Salon.com

About 70 percent of Scout troops are sponsored by faith-based organizations. Many are threatening to break ties.

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Pitbulls Used to Be Considered the Perfect "Nanny Dogs" for Children -- Until the Media Turned Them Into Monsters

By Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Gun Control Agenda Is Launching White Paranoid Extremists to Prepare for Armed Revolution

By Frank Schaeffer / AlterNet

Ex-CIA Agent, Whistleblower John Kiriakou Sentenced to Prison While Torturers He Exposed Walk Free

By Amy Goodman, Nermeen Shaikh / Democracy Now!

Major Gun Control Push in New York Sends Gun Nuts and NRA Crowd into a Tizzy

By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

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

NYPD Handcuff, Interrogate 7-Year-Old Over $5

Natasha Lennard / Salon

Meet the Contractors Turning America's Police Into a Paramilitary Force

John Knefel / AlterNet

The End-Times Politics of Pastor John Hagee

K.C. Boyd / AlterNet

Gun Violence Must End, But Not By Throwing People Into The Mental Health System

Laura Delano / AlterNet

Obama Pushes Ahead With Immigration Reform -- Here's the Good, Bad and the Ugly

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

From Bradley Manning to Aaron Swartz -- The Government's Inhumane Persecution of Brave Truth Tellers

Chase Madar / The Nation

Man Detained by TSA for Having 4th Amendment Written on Naked Chest Wins Case

Alex Kane / AlterNet

When the Law Won't Call it "Rape"

Stephanie Hughes / Salon.com

8 Ways to Not Become a Victim of Racial Discrimination

Humna Bhojani / Huffington Post

Has America Become an Authoritarian State?

Henry A. Giroux / Truthout

Hate Crimes: A Rape Every Minute, a Thousand Corpses Every Year

Rebecca Solnit / Tom Dispatch

How the NRA Went From Best Friend of the Nation's Police to Harsh Enemy of Law Enforcement

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Descendants of Slaves Fight Chemical Giant Over Control of 1870s Cemetery

Susan Buchanan / Louisiana Weekly/ New America Media

LAPD Using Controversial Spy Tool to Listen to Cellphone Conversations of "Non-Suspects"

Natasha Lennard / Salon.com

Sen. Dianne Feinstein Introduces New Assault Weapon Ban

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

With Obama's Nod, Congress Promises Five More Years Of Widespread Government Surveillance

Anthony Cuthbertson / WhoWhatWhy.com

The 7 Best Right-Wing Freakouts Over Women Going Into Combat

Katie McDonough / Salon

Crazy -- Republican Lawmaker Wants to Jail Rape Victims for Ending Pregnancies

Laura Gottesdiener / AlterNet

A Fetus Is Not a Person if it Costs us Money, Says Catholic Church

Kaili Joy Gray / Daily Kos

Shocking: Reporting Factory Farm Abuses to be Considered "Act of Terrorism" If New Laws Pass

Katherine Paul, Ronnie Cummins / AlterNet

How Britain Enthusiastically Teamed Up with Bush's Horrific Torture and Rendition Agenda

Ian Cobain / Portobello Books

About Time Women and Men Got Charged the Same Rates for Hair Cuts

Laura Gottesdiener / AlterNet

Did Hacker Group Anonymous Threaten Blogger Who Posted Images of Cyber-Bullying?

Elizabeth Daley / AlterNet

12 Rational Responses to Irrational Arguments About Guns

Richard (RJ) Eskow / AlterNet

7 Uncovered Quotes That Show How Far off the Rails the NRA Has Gone

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

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