News & Commentary
Nebraska's Ban on Gay Foster Parents is Beatable
The Cornhusker State's discriminatory ban on gay foster parents looks increasingly rickety.
By By James Esseks, Director, ACLU Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender & AIDS Project
Shocking Kids into Compliance
The Judge Rotenberg Center, a residential school in northern Massachusetts, prides itself on teaching students with disabilities who have the most challenging behavioral issues. The school takes kids with severe intellectual disabilities – autism, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and a range of psychiatric disabilities – and then its employees attach electrodes to their arms, legs, and stomach, and shock them into submission.
By By Susan Mizner, Disability Counsel, ACLU
Resegregation: The Unfulfilled Promise of Brown
Elizabeth "Tizzy" Lockman lives with her daughter, Sophie, in the same Wilmington, Del., house where Tizzy grew up. She had hoped to send her daughter to the same elementary school she attended as a little girl, but soon discovered that the school she knew in the 1980s had changed dramatically.
By By Carmel Ferrer
Crash the Wedding Event of the Year
What's the #1 rule for crashing a wedding?
By By Alicia Gay, ACLU
Gov. Brewer, Heed Your Own Advice
This piece originally appeared as an OpEd in the Arizona Republic.
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By By Alessandra Soler, ACLU of Arizona
We're All Losers After the Supreme Court's Decision in Schuette
There are many individuals and groups in Michigan who lost as a result of yesterday's United States Supreme Court decision in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action.
By By Dennis Parker, Director, ACLU Racial Justice Program
Don't Let the Torturer Play Censor
In a matter of weeks, the public could finally have access to information the CIA has been trying to keep secret for years. That is, unless the CIA decides otherwise.
By By Noa Yachot, Communications Strategist, ACLU
Finally! One of the West Wing's Biggest Cliffhangers Answered
Years after the West Wing left us hanging, we finally have an answer to one of the show's biggest unanswered questions: Does President Josiah Bartlet support sentencing reform?
By By Meghan Groob, Media Relations Associate, ACLU
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