Civil Rights & Liberties

The Right to Remain Naked?

Alexander Cockburn : Sex & Sexuality

Obsessions over sex have little to do with sexual behavior and everything to do with policing.

Hold Ashcroft Accountable

David Cole : John Ashcroft

The Ninth Circuit rules that John Ashcroft can be held accountable for the "paradigm of prevention" that led to unlawful detainment of a US citizen.

A Gross Unfairness

Steven Epstein : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism

Scrutinizing the machinery of the "straight state."

Why We Detain the Innocent

Aziz Huq : Guantanamo Bay

Yet again the courts have ignored the Constitution and legal precedent, leaving seventeen innocent Guantánamo detainees in legal limbo.

Obama's Security Priorities

Aziz Huq : Barack Obama Administration

He has significantly pivoted US policy on torture. But where the president stands on warrantless wiretapping should give progressives some cause for concern.

Help End Military Commissions

Brave New Films : US Military

Military officials who have prosecuted and defended detainees explain why we cannot continue to deny Gitmo prisoners the rights they deserve.

Obama's New Deal

William P. Jones : Labor

Obama has an opportunity to further racial and economic justice by fusing the New Deal and civil rights traditions.

Richard Kim on Why Prop 8 Won

Grit TV : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism

The Nation's Richard Kim explores why the No on Prop 8 campaign failed to gain much momentum in California.

Smearing Colonel Vandeveld

Ross Tuttle

Military commissions officials are using punitive psychological evaluations as part of a strategy to discredit and silence a former colleague turned whistleblower.

We Colonials

Margot Canaday : Non-Fiction

William Eskridge's Dishonorable Passions is the first comprehensive history of sodomy law in America.

A Magic Moment for America

Rev. Jesse L. Jackson : Spoken Word

The nomination of Barack Obama--so able intellectually, morally and spiritually--marks a magic moment for America, culminating the hopes of those who worked for a more perfect union, a more peaceful world.

When COINTELPRO Came to Town

Dave Zirin

The Maryland State Police's Department of Homeland Security has devoted hundreds of hours and thousands of taxpayer dollars to harassing people whose only crime was opposing the war in Iraq and the death penalty.

Radio Nation with Laura Flanders

Radio Nation : George W. Bush

The Nation's Ari Melber and Jon Pincus tackle FISA, Elizabeth Holtzman talks impeachment--plus more on war resisters in Canada and the subprime mortgage crisis.

Raging Against Rising Internet Repression

Antony Loewenstein : Internet & New Media

More than 200 bloggers, human rights activists, writers, journalists, hackers and IT experts have joined the fight against censorship on the web.

Fizzling on FISA

Obama and other Senate Democrats should not let a lame-duck Administration compromise our liberties in the name of pursuing terrorists.

Olbermann's Special Comment on FISA

Countdown

Keith Olbermann says that when it comes to FISA, the Democrats are doing 'a collective impression of Homer Simpson falling off a cliff.'