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Lawmakers Renew Push to Regulate Kids’ Speech Online Despite Speech Protections
New state and federal bills seek to limit minors’ access to social media, but civil liberties advocates warn that the resulting online censorship threatens constitutional rights without delivering real safety.
By Hibah Ansari
Lawmakers Renew Push to Regulate Kids’ Speech Online Despite Speech ProtectionsPodcast
What’s On The Docket: A 2026 SCOTUS Briefing
‘Tis the season ... to stay ready. A busy Supreme Court term is already underway, with trans rights, redistricting, birthright citizenship, and more on the docket. And this week, Cecillia Wang is...
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Dreading the holiday dinner table? Our experts provide advice to help you navigate the trickiest conversations.
Trump's Boat Strikes Are Illegal. The Public Needs Answers.
The Trump administration must release its legal justification and all other materials related to its illegal lethal strikes on civilian boats at sea.
By Jeffrey Stein, Christopher Anders
Trump's Boat Strikes Are Illegal. The Public Needs Answers.
Trump, Immigration, Trans Rights: The Stories That Shaped 2025
This year’s most-read ACLU stories trace a nation grappling with military overreach, attacks on the press, threats to immigrant and transgender communities, and the fight for justice in response.
By ACLU
Trump, Immigration, Trans Rights: The Stories That Shaped 2025
Inside an ICE Detention Center: Detained People Describe Severe Medical Neglect, Harrowing Conditions
Seven people detail what it’s like to be held in a California immigration detention center. One man who likely has prostate cancer has continuously been denied medication and urgent treatment.
By Hibah Ansari
Inside an ICE Detention Center: Detained People Describe Severe Medical Neglect, Harrowing ConditionsPodcast
What’s On The Docket: A 2026 SCOTUS Briefing
‘Tis the season ... to stay ready. A busy Supreme Court term is already underway, with trans rights, redistricting, birthright citizenship, and more on the docket. And this week, Cecillia Wang is...
Conversation Guide
Dreading the holiday dinner table? Our experts provide advice to help you navigate the trickiest conversations.
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An Arizona Sheriff Deputy's Abuse of a Quadruple Amputee Teen Highlights a Policing Culture That Must Change
Police departments can be a dangerous powder keg of racism, militarization, and resentment of the communities they are charged with serving.
By Ezekiel Edwards
Police departments can be a dangerous powder keg of racism, militarization, and resentment of the communities they are charged with serving.
By Ezekiel Edwards
Whistleblowers Are Public Servants. We Must Protect Them.
There is no law protecting an intelligence community whistleblower's identity from disclosure or protecting them from retaliatory investigations....
By Kate Ruane
There is no law protecting an intelligence community whistleblower's identity from disclosure or protecting them from retaliatory investigations....
By Kate Ruane
Gold Chains: The Hidden History of Slavery in California
Through narratives, public records, archival materials, and images, Gold Chains: The Hidden History of Slavery in California debunks California’s...
By Candice Francis
Through narratives, public records, archival materials, and images, Gold Chains: The Hidden History of Slavery in California debunks California’s...
By Candice Francis
The Size of Your Wallet Should Never Determine Your Freedom
We’re suing to put officials in North Carolina and across the country on notice: current bail practices in are unconstitutional, violate...
By Twyla Carter, Leah Kang
We’re suing to put officials in North Carolina and across the country on notice: current bail practices in are unconstitutional, violate...
By Twyla Carter, Leah Kang
Trump Administration Forgoes Petition to Supreme Court in Jane Doe Case
Our lower court victory that ensured unaccompanied immigrants minors can access abortion stands after the government declines to petition Supreme...
By Meagan Burrows
Our lower court victory that ensured unaccompanied immigrants minors can access abortion stands after the government declines to petition Supreme...
By Meagan Burrows
We’re Suing South Carolina For Driving People Into Poverty
In South Carolina people who can’t pay traffic tickets are trapped in a cycle of lost jobs and opportunities, poverty, and debt. We're suing to...
By Nusrat Choudhury
In South Carolina people who can’t pay traffic tickets are trapped in a cycle of lost jobs and opportunities, poverty, and debt. We're suing to...
By Nusrat Choudhury
Three Common Privacy Misconceptions That Companies Love
Privacy-invading companies love it that people feel helpless, but now is the time for people to trade resignation for activism.
By Jay Stanley
Privacy-invading companies love it that people feel helpless, but now is the time for people to trade resignation for activism.
By Jay Stanley
Why the FBI Ignores White Supremacist Violence
The FBI is supposed to keep us safe, protect our rights, and defend the rule of law. Yet for more than a century, the FBI has aggressively targeted dissidents, gone after minorities, and overstepped its authority in ways that have defined American policing. Mike German, a former FBI agent,...
The FBI is supposed to keep us safe, protect our rights, and defend the rule of law. Yet for more than a century, the FBI has aggressively targeted dissidents, gone after minorities, and overstepped its authority in ways that have defined American policing. Mike German, a former FBI agent,...
Federal Court Rules That Border Officers Can’t Arbitrarily Search Our Electronic Devices
We don’t lose our privacy rights at the airport or other U.S. ports of entry.
By Hugh Handeyside, Esha Bhandari, Nathan Freed Wessler
We don’t lose our privacy rights at the airport or other U.S. ports of entry.
By Hugh Handeyside, Esha Bhandari, Nathan Freed Wessler
Oklahomans Just Made History — and They Can Do it Again
Oklahomans are ready to shed their title as one of the incarceration capitals of the world. This is the next step.
By Taylor Pendergrass
Oklahomans are ready to shed their title as one of the incarceration capitals of the world. This is the next step.
By Taylor Pendergrass