The Garden State Gets It Right
New Jersey's ruling on gay relationships provides rights and prevents overreactions
Civil Liberties
CleanFlicks v. Kate Winslet's Breasts
How Hollywood won a legal battle while losing a cultural war
Policy Laundering For Freedom?
The ACLU takes US spying, torture, and disenfranchisement to the UN.
No Encroachments on the First Amendment
The ACLU discusses civil rights history, intelligent design and abortion
Mo' Better People
As America's population hits 300 million people, will we re-live the Summer of Love?
Taking Land or Just Borrowing It With Interest?
Why are environmentalists in favor of compensating voluntary land use restrictions but not involuntary ones?
The Best for the Worst
Big-time terrorists get a trial; anonymous "enemy combatants" just get locked up
America Gives a Shit
Was Bush's open-mic gaffe a flaming sack of good news for free speech?
The Case of Cory Maye
A cop is dead, an innocent man may be on death row, and drug warriors keep knocking down doors.
Clarifying Torture
Mr. President, what part of prohibiting "cruel treatment and torture" don't you understand?
Narc of the Matinee
Director Kirby Dick on his documentary, This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Permission to Speak Freely
The "electioneering communications" ban silences interest groups when their messages matter most
The Accidental Drug Trafficker
A repudiation of prosecutions that treat doctors' errors in judgment as felonies
The Success of My Secrets
For a president inclined to ignore Congress and the courts, the best defense is no defense
At 40, Is NOW What It Set Out To Be Then?
This is not your mother's feminism, and that's too bad
D.C., the 51st Police State
A shocking story of today's high school hoodlums, running wild in the nation's capital!
The Hard Right vs. John Dean's "Conservatives without Conscience"
Are Republicans inherently authoritarian?
Straight Talk Is Cheap
How John McCain became the capo of the new, reformed campaign finance syndicate
Searching for Alex Kozinski
The controversial 9th Circuit judge on free speech, privacy, and why he didn't mind the Kelo decision
