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Jul 10, 2014

Doing Right by the Unaccompanied Children on Our Border

There are children in cages along the U.S.-Mexico border...

By By Georgeanne M. Usova, Washington Legislative Office

There are children in cages along the U.S.-Mexico border...

By By Georgeanne M. Usova, Washington Legislative Office

Jul 10, 2014

Suing to Defend Americans' Right to Take Pictures in Public

What does an 86-year-old art photographer have in common with a young man with a video game habit?

Not just a proclivity for perfectly innocuous hobbies, unfortunately. These days, engaging in...

By By Julia Harumi Mass, Staff Attorney, ACLU of Northern California

What does an 86-year-old art photographer have in common with a young man with a video game habit?

Not just a proclivity for perfectly innocuous hobbies, unfortunately. These days, engaging in...

By By Julia Harumi Mass, Staff Attorney, ACLU of Northern California

Jul 10, 2014

Big Data and Big Money

Out for a run the other day along a stretch on a busy road, I saw a "for sale" sign on a house. That got me to wondering about the downsides of living on a busy road, and further wondering: do people who...

By By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project

Jul 9, 2014

What’s the Government Doing Targeting Civil Rights Leaders?

The NSA and FBI are targeting prominent American Muslims, including civil rights activists, academics, and a former government official, we learned in a ...

By By Laura W. Murphy, Director, ACLU Washington Legislative Office & Sandra Fulton, ACLU Washington Legislative Office

The NSA and FBI are targeting prominent American Muslims, including civil rights activists, academics, and a former government official, we learned in a ...

By By Laura W. Murphy, Director, ACLU Washington Legislative Office & Sandra Fulton, ACLU Washington Legislative Office

Jul 9, 2014

The Hobby Lobby Stages of Grief: Stage 2, Anger

Have you recovered from last week’s brutal Hobby Lobby opinion...

By By Elayne Weiss, Washington Legislative Office

Have you recovered from last week’s brutal Hobby Lobby opinion...

By By Elayne Weiss, Washington Legislative Office

Jul 9, 2014

U.N. to Confront United States on Persistent Racial Discrimination

Imagine the government taking away your two children in a hearing that lasts less than 60 seconds.

Madonna Pappan and her husband, members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, don’t have to...

By By Chandra Bhatnagar, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU Human Rights Program

Imagine the government taking away your two children in a hearing that lasts less than 60 seconds.

Madonna Pappan and her husband, members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, don’t have to...

By By Chandra Bhatnagar, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU Human Rights Program