Civil Liberties

A massive system of prior restraint hangs on an irregular Supreme Court footnote.

Movement-building can bring together unlikely bedfellows and allow a diversity of approaches to achieve a shared goal of upholding democracy.

At one-year mark of Biden administration, top experts revisit proposals to restore and promote nonpartisan principles of good government.

After 20 years of Guantánamo litigation, legal questions around detention authority and due process still remain.

After 20 years, continued Guantanamo detention is unjustifiable.

Western donors, civil society, and media partners need to update their views of those who've fled repression.

Despite its “going dark” claims, the FBI can obtain a remarkable amount of user data from secure messaging apps that collectively have several billion global users.

The $424.4 million plan focuses on media, corruption, reformers, technology, and political processes like elections.

Heading into the Summit for Democracy, the United States has yet to pass comprehensive voting rights legislation at home.

Facebook has been criticized for content it allows. But we should be equally skeptical of what it takes down, and its claimed legal reasoning for removals.

The Global Counterterrorism Forum's new "toolkit" ignores input, tracks US practice to dangerously expand the unaccountable post-9/11 system.

Of the many abuses that sprung from the Patriot Act’s toxic soil, the most pernicious and enduring is the growth of secret laws. The insistence that the government must not only…