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Whether you spent your weekend watching the Tony Awards, the Belmont Stakes, or the NBA finals, the important thing to keep in mind is that even though the weekend is over there is still plenty of...
Whether you spent your weekend watching the Tony Awards, the Belmont Stakes, or the NBA finals, the important thing to keep in mind is that even though the weekend is over there is still plenty of...
While the Obama administration's immigration enforcement machine hurtles forward like a runaway train, law enforcement officials in progressive states have been jumping off en masse. Getting mixed up with...
While the Obama administration's immigration enforcement machine hurtles forward like a runaway train, law enforcement officials in progressive states have been jumping off en masse. Getting mixed up with...
On August 21, 1989, Dee Farmer, a black, transgender woman, sued prison officials for the "mental anguish, psychological damage, humil[i]ation, swollen face, cuts and bruises to her mouth and lips and a...
On August 21, 1989, Dee Farmer, a black, transgender woman, sued prison officials for the "mental anguish, psychological damage, humil[i]ation, swollen face, cuts and bruises to her mouth and lips and a...
In our 2011 ACLU report on secrecy "Drastic Measures Required," my co-author Mike German and I wrote that "American democracy has...
In our 2011 ACLU report on secrecy "Drastic Measures Required," my co-author Mike German and I wrote that "American democracy has...
Top senators thought you wouldn't notice. Behind closed doors, they wrote up new indefinite detention and Guantánamo provisions in the annual defense policy bill, and then waited 11 days to quietly file...
Top senators thought you wouldn't notice. Behind closed doors, they wrote up new indefinite detention and Guantánamo provisions in the annual defense policy bill, and then waited 11 days to quietly file...
Spoiler alert: This post is going to be disgusting.
Like the rest of you, we're incredibly excited to binge watch the second season of "Orange Is the New Black" this...
Spoiler alert: This post is going to be disgusting.
Like the rest of you, we're incredibly excited to binge watch the second season of "Orange Is the New Black" this...