Civil Liberties

The myth of facial neutrality ignores how racism and other prejudices shape national security policy.

A collection of Just Security essays reflect on national security policy past and present, 80 years after Order that led to mass incarceration of Japanese Americans.

Prepublication review has ballooned since 1980 Supreme Court decision in Snepp v. U.S.

Ambassador (ret.) Karen Kornbluh proposes concrete steps to curb online extremist content - from requiring transparency to FTC enforcement actions.

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.