Defense Secretary Robert Gates has used powers granted to him by a controversial new law to block the court-ordered release of numerous photos of deta...
Anthony D. Romero | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
The clock's ticking and it's not looking good. As January 22, 2010 fast approaches, the administration is signaling that it's unlikely to meet its own deadline to close
Steve Bierfeldt | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
As a result of my just-dropped case against the TSA, passengers will no longer be forced to check their constitutional rights at the airport counter, and that is a victory for all.
Jerry Zezima | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living
I may not be British, but for the past three decades, I have kept a stiff upper lip. Now, after all these years of hair-raising adventure, I am celebrating the 30th anniversary of my mustache.
Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler | Posted 11.09.2009 | Entertainment
At home, Dad spoke of the racism he saw every day in the courtroom. Civil rights leaders, he told us, where only honored when they were safely dead.
Aryeh Neier | Posted 11.02.2009 | World
Human Rights Watch has an immense amount of experience in all parts of the world in fact-gathering and getting the story right. That is why its reporting matters.
Wall Street Journal | STEPHANIE SIMON | Posted 10.31.2009 | Denver
For nearly a decade, naked pumpkin runners did their thing unmolested, stampeding through the frigid dark past crowds of admirers who hooted, hollered...
Deborah Jacobs | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics
Since August, Newark turned off nearly 600 water accounts in an attempt to collect $29 million in unpaid bills. Newark's desire to collect this debt is entirely understandable, but unpaid bills do not trump human rights or public health.
AP | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A federal judge ruled Friday in a case on detainees at Guantanamo Bay that the government can maintain the secrecy of portions of s...
AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Congress is set to allow the Pentagon to keep new pictures of foreign detainees abused by their U.S. captors from the public, a mov...
Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
Justice Scalia takes umbrage at the suggestion that an eight-foot-high Christian cross, erected as a memorial to soldiers killed in military service, violates the First Amendment's Establishment Clause.
The American Prospect | Adam Serwer | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
Since 2003, the ACLU has been seeking torture documents through a FOIA lawsuit. In 2005, the Southern District Court of New York ordered the governmen...
Reproductive Justice | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
Last week, in a historic ruling, a federal Court of Appeals held that the U.S. Constitution protects pregnant women in prison from the inhumane practice of shackling during labor.
Michael Macleod-Ball | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
Tomorrow the debate continues over the USA PATRIOT Act Sunset Extension Act, which includes minor tweaks to the Patriot Act but does not go nearly far enough to protect the Fourth Amendment rights of Americans.
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
A woman whose name we all know was a proud Red, a committed Socialist, and an unapologetic Wobbly. And now she's not only buried in the National Cathedral, she's got her own statue in the Capitol.
Leah Anthony Libresco | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
If we distort the framework of nondiscrimination for religious organizations it privileges prejudice. We would, in the name of separating church and state, give the church license to harm our state.
Mary Ann West | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
Fifteen years of failed immigration policy has not lessened the number of undocumented aliens entering the country and has cost millions in dollars.
Mary Ann West | Posted 10.02.2009 | World
The deaths of unauthorized migrants have been a predictable and inhumane outcome of border security policies on the U.S.-Mexico border over the last fifteen years.
Anthony D. Romero | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
Jack McCoy isn't afraid to hold members of the Bush administration accountable for torture. Now the question is, in real life, will Attorney General Holder rise to the occasion?
Jameel Jaffer | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
Five years after Abu Ghraib, the Defense Department is still withholding photographs showing prisoners being abused at other facilities, as well as interrogation directives used by special forces.
AP | CHARLES WILSON | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business
INDIANAPOLIS — An Indiana court has ruled that a pizza shop must pay for a 340-pound employee's weight-loss surgery to ensure the success of ano...
Hamdan Azhar | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
The evil of profiling is that it dehumanizes its victims, stripping them of their individuality. The border officials didn't see me as a writer or as a wide-eyed student in the grip of wanderlust.
Michelle Pilecki | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
Larry Frankel spent his professional life as a legislative lobbyist for the ACLU. That means that Larry worked behind the scenes with both "left" and "right" legislators to protect the civil rights.
Jeffrey Buchanan | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
The federal government still has a long fight ahead to make good on promises to rebuild a stronger, safer and more equitable Gulf Coast.
Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
By Scott Horton Special to the Huffington Post Deep among the documents released to the ACLU on Monday afternoon was a curious memo dated 30 Decembe...
Mother Jones | Nick Baumann | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics