Civil Liberties
Experts React to the Campus Sex Assault Bills
The bills still contain plenty that would trouble civil libertarians.
Pregnant Women Warned: Consent to Surgical Birth or Else
As hospitals and courts collude, pregnant women are being excluded from fundamental decisions about how they give birth.
Wrong-House Raid Victim: 'I See a Flashing Light and a Gun Pointed To My Head'
The sheriff's office has apologized-for its mistake, not its tactics.
What's Happening to America in the Borderlands?
Two thirds of Americans live within a hundred miles of a border or coast, where feds are allowed to violate more of their rights
The Problem Isn't That Lois Lerner Doesn't Like Conservatives, It's That the IRS Gave Her a Weapon Against Them
Lois Lerner isn't the problem. The power of the IRS-and so many other government agencies-is a bludgeon that will inevitably be used by almost anybody who gets their hands on it.
Religious Freedom and the Great Faux-Rights Arms Race of 2014: Elizabeth Nolan Brown at The Week
A crop of current religious freedom cases are more predicated on wringing special protections from the state than legit struggles for religious liberty.
Wikileaks Aussie Gag Order Revelation Shows a Free Press Is Still an American Thing
Our government officials may be control-freaks, but they can only dream of the powers deployed by their counterparts in many other established "free countries."
Rand Paul Tries to Limit the State's License to Steal
The Kentucky senator's forfeiture reform bill would curtail legal theft.
Wikileaks: Australia Censorship Order Blocked Reporting on Multinational Corruption Scandal
Also involving Malaysia, Indonesia, and Vietnam
No Justice at Harvard: Accused Students Don't Get Attorneys, Cross-Examination
Alumni could be called to participate in due-process-free trials for years to come.
No Child Left Outside: Another Mom Arrested for Letting Kid Play in Park
"My own bondsman said my parents would have been in jail every day."
A Lethal Injection of Reality
Medicalizing executions helps maintain support for the death penalty.
