They used to be invisible, the four or five convicted sex offenders camping out on the Julia Tuttle Causeway connecting Miami to Miami Beach. But for ...

Obama's controversial detention plan for Guantanamo detainees keeps leaking and it is a fundamentally radical, dangerous and potentially unconstitutional approach.

Today was supposed to be the day that the Justice Department -- after two delays -- released an unclassified version of the CIA Inspector General's 2004 Report into the interrogations of "high-value detainees."

Sadly, our celebrity-obsessed world is unlikely to pay much attention to the International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture, as the death of Michael Jackson dominates headlines.

The Biloxi City Council will vote June 16th on an ordinance, backed by the City's community development office, forcing FEMA trailers to be removed from residential zones by August 9th.

NEW YORK — The American Civil Liberties Union sued the U.S. government Thursday to try to prove there is a close link between the White House un...

In all the hoopla over Judge Sonia Sotomayor being nominated to the Supreme Court, there is one interesting side story that the media is largely ignor...

One of the most important events in the history of civil rights may have happened today.

As one glass ceiling was being shattered and as America was overcoming centuries of discrimination against women and Latinos, one other ceiling was being reinforced over the heads of gay and lesbian couples in California.

Releasing new Abu-Ghraib photos will not aid the cause of justice or increase government transparency.

For Dick Cheney, if there's a 1% chance of a terror plot existing, it should be treated as a certainty. It's one thing when that sort of manipulation is used to entertain, and quite another when it's used to govern.

No one should be surprised that the ACLU would issue a call to prosecute those who authorized torture on detainees.

Skolnick's answers surrounding the ethics and detrimental consequences of gene patenting were unsatisfying.

Until we take off our blindfolds, until we truly hold accountable those who authorized these heinous acts, we will continue to endanger not only ourselves, but our troops.

It was the gnawing in his gut that gave it away, that creepy-crawly upset in the pre-dawn darkness. He turned himself to one side, then to the other, ...

If the Mormons and Knights understood what Proposition 8 really did, they'd join us in asking the Court to strike it.

As the Obama administration doles out the stimulus money, lobbyists are whining about restrictions placed on their interaction with the federal officials responsible for disbursing the funds.

Being forcibly removed for the mere possibility of having a difference of opinion was, to say the least, frightening and disturbing

As some liberals make the case against a Special Prosecutor, the lawyers who fought for the release of the torture memos push back and explain why prosecutions are the only response.

Barack Obama has drawn praise for transparency reforms during his first 100 days in office, but his use of the "state secrets" privilege to squash lawsuits on torture and surveillance is drawing mounting opposition.