Strict new laws call for sex offenders to be electronically monitored for life. Critics say the technology won't stop crimes but is fueling hysteria -- and is even counterproductive.
Tuesday, Dec 19, 2006 1:00 PM UTC 53A Colorado University sophomore keeps the ACLU in business.
Saturday, Nov 11, 2006 1:21 AM UTC 34The Department of Education retools Title IX, allowing more same-sex ed.
Wednesday, Oct 25, 2006 10:06 PM UTC 30The ACLU quashes a Louisiana school board's sex-segregation plans.
Friday, Aug 11, 2006 1:12 AM UTC 45Citing Salon's publication, government abandons its fight to keep images of abuse secret.
Wednesday, Mar 29, 2006 12:00 PM UTCFor at least one legislator, that means the laws not working.
Wednesday, Jan 18, 2006 8:51 PM UTCA motley crew that includes Christopher Hitchens, Larry Diamond and Greenpeace is suing the NSA, claiming that Bush's wiretap program is inhibiting free speech.
Wednesday, Jan 18, 2006 12:35 PM UTC 19The ACLU Web site adds real voices to the emergency contraception debate.
Wednesday, Nov 23, 2005 12:47 PM UTCThe right-wing crusade against the liberal "war on Christmas" is great for rallying the troops. Too bad the war doesn't exist.
Monday, Nov 21, 2005 12:11 PM UTC 64The Army calls off its investigation of the pictures-for-porn swap just as a federal judge says the government must release more photos from Abu Ghraib.
Thursday, Sep 29, 2005 6:28 PM UTCAs more evidence surfaces that the Bush administration can't be bothered with scientific accuracy, the ACLU tries framing science as a national security issue.
Tuesday, Jun 21, 2005 9:42 PM UTCNewly declassified files on detainee abuse include sworn statements by a Pentagon employee about a military interrogator who threw the Koran on the floor and "stepped on it" -- provoking detainees to riot.
Friday, May 27, 2005 8:37 PM UTCFrom the Terri Schiavo case to expanded government powers in the war on terrorism, conservative libertarians are palling around an awful lot these days with the political left.
Wednesday, Mar 23, 2005 8:29 PM UTCBy persuading the Dover, Pa., school board to teach creationism, Christian zealots have provoked a showdown over the status of not just evolutionary theory, but science itself.
Tuesday, Jan 11, 2005 12:26 AM UTCWhy is the Secret Service treating harmless professors and pacifist homeless advocates like they're members of al-Qaida?
Friday, Aug 6, 2004 6:19 PM UTCSix decades before Guantanamo, Fred Korematsu refused to go quietly when the government tried to put him in a prison camp because of his race.
Tuesday, Jun 29, 2004 10:36 PM UTCThe government tells the Supreme Court that Web publishers should relax -- a Web censorship law only applies to the "worst" porn peddlers. But why should we trust it?
Wednesday, Mar 3, 2004 2:54 PM UTCHow the Secret Service and the White House keep protesters safely out of Bush's sight -- and off TV.
Thursday, Oct 16, 2003 6:52 PM UTCActivists on the left and right -- including a 71-year-old Milwaukee nun and an art dealer who told other passengers that President Bush "is dumb as a rock" -- have long complained they were being hassled by airport security. After months of silence, the federal government says: It's true.
Friday, Jul 25, 2003 11:38 PM UTCAt the Berkeley graduation I told the students that the secret to success was simple -- ignore your parents' expectations, give money to the ACLU, and find out the truth about who you are.
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