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I Was Arrested for Learning a Foreign Language. Today, I Have Some Closure.

I Was Arrested for Learning a Foreign Language. Today, I Have Some Closure.

01/23/2015 – Five years ago, the Philadelphia police thought that carrying Arabic-language flashcards was enough to warrant the arrest of an innocent traveler. A settlement reached today in a lawsuit ...

Half-Baked Complaint Alleges Discrimination Where There is None

Half-Baked Complaint Alleges Discrimination Where There is None

01/23/2015 – When Christian educator Bill Jack ordered a cake last year from Azucar, a Denver bakery, he had a special decoration request for owner Marjorie Silva. He wanted the cake to say "God ...

Guantánamo Diary: An Epic for Our Times

Guantánamo Diary: An Epic for Our Times

01/20/2015 – Literary history was made today with the publication of the first-ever book by a still-imprisoned Guantánamo detainee. Mohamedou Ould Slahi's "Guantánamo Diary" was finally published ...

From the Fair Housing Act to Ferguson: Where You Live Impacts How You're Policed

From the Fair Housing Act to Ferguson: Where You Live Impacts How You're Policed

01/20/2015 – In less than 24 hours, the Supreme Court will hear a case that will define the future of decades-old legal protections against discrimination by landlords and banks against renters and ...

Real People Aren't Target Practice

Real People Aren't Target Practice

01/17/2015 – This was originally posted by the ACLU of Florida. The pictures of six black men stared back at me from the screen, the images of their faces shredded by bullet holes. It seemed like ...

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Rein in the Surveillance State

The National Security Agency's mass surveillance has greatly expanded in the years since September 11, ...

Smart Justice, Fair Justice

For the last four decades, this country has relentlessly expanded the size of our criminal justice ...

Border Communities Under Siege

The U.S.-Mexico border has been turned into a militarized zone, all in the name of "border security."

Accountability for Torture

With the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee's summary of its landmark investigation into the ...