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What's Just as Important as Free Speech? A Few Things, Actually. Apr. 01, 2025

Ruben Navarrette

SAN DIEGO — I occasionally find myself speaking to Latino immigrants, legal and otherwise. I ... Read More

Can Border Agents Search Your Electronic Devices? It's Complicated. Mar. 24, 2025

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

The government has long claimed that Fourth Amendment protections prohibiting warrantless searches d... Read More

Trump's Attack on the Department of Education, Explained Mar. 17, 2025

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

This week, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) released a statement saying it would cut nearly 50%... Read More

Where Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Nominee Harmeet Dhillon Stands on Civil Liberties Mar. 10, 2025

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

President Donald Trump has nominated Harmeet Dhillon, an attorney, media personality and Republican ... Read More

DEI and Accessibility, Explained Mar. 03, 2025

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

Across the country, right-wing groups are working to dismantle long-standing anti-discrimination pro... Read More

'Hope Is the Counter to Fear' Feb. 24, 2025

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

One of Daishi Miguel-Tanaka's earliest memories is walking into his first-grade class in California ... Read More

Trump's Attempt To Unilaterally Control State and Local Funding Is Dangerous, Dumb and Undemocratic Feb. 18, 2025

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

The Trump administration has not been subtle in its desire to use federal funding for political puni... Read More

Why Sanctioning the ICC Would Be Terrible for Civil Liberties Feb. 03, 2025

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

A bill that would have required the president to sanction the International Criminal Court has faile... Read More

Trump's Executive Orders Rolling Back DEI and Accessibility Efforts, Explained Jan. 27, 2025

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

The Trump administration's three executive orders targeting diversity, equity, inclusion and accessi... Read More

Trump's Executive Order on Birthright Citizenship, Explained Jan. 21, 2025

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

The American Civil Liberties Union and immigrants' rights advocates sued the Trump administration on... Read More

'I Thought That Death Was Imminent' Jan. 13, 2025

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

*Jean Paul is a pseudonym. All names have been changed to protect those identified in this story. I ... Read More

Disappearing Messages Don't Work -- and They're Great Jan. 06, 2025

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

Fifteen years ago it was unfathomable — and a bad idea — to imagine that your digital me... Read More

Attempts at a Technological Solution To Disinformation Will Do More Harm Than Good Dec. 30, 2024

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

There is widespread concern today about the use of generative AI and deepfakes to create fake videos... Read More

Face Recognition Threatens to Replace Tickets, ID at Sports Events -- and Beyond Dec. 23, 2024

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

Sports stadiums around the country have begun using face recognition to identify ticket holders, thr... Read More

I'm a Doctor. I've Seen How Vital It Is To Speak With Young People About Gender Dec. 09, 2024

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

From a young age, I enjoyed playing around with gender roles, but it wasn't until later in my adoles... Read More

Incarceration Should Not Be a Death Sentence for Individuals Who Use Opioids Dec. 02, 2024

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

The opioid epidemic has gripped communities for more than 20 years. From 1999 to 2022, nearly 727,00... Read More

How Biden Can Act Now To Limit Trump's Mass Deportation Agenda Nov. 25, 2024

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

President-elect Donald Trump has made mass detention of immigrant communities a central part of his ... Read More

Biden Must Use Final Months in Office to Commute Federal Death Sentences Nov. 18, 2024

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

President-elect Donald Trump has chilling plans to use his second term to expand the federal death p... Read More

We've Seen 105 Years and 19 Presidents. Trump's Gotta Get Past All of Us. Nov. 12, 2024

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

The results of the election are in: Donald Trump will be the 47th president of the United States. Tr... Read More

We're Fighting for Our Freedoms -- No Matter Who Is President Nov. 04, 2024

Rights & Resistance with the ACLU

As we near Election Day, the ACLU is in conversation with state and local activists about how to pre... Read More