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Civil liberties
Civil liberties news and analysis from The Nation
November 12, 2019
In A Good American Family , the journalist and editor examines his father and mother’s youthful idealism and the bitter years of McCarthyism that followed.
October 28, 2019
From the streets to our smartphones, surveillance has taken on frightening proportions.
October 16, 2019
In the name of free speech, universities are suppressing student protests in increasingly draconian ways.
September 19, 2019
The NSA whistleblower’s new memoir is essential reading.
September 2, 2019
The US used to tell the world that strong unions were a bulwark against fascism. We should take our own advice and enshrine the right to organize.
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August 22, 2019
Three performances at the world’s biggest arts festival react to transphobic rhetoric in the UK.
August 21, 2019
The authorities are using unprecedented police brutality and selective arrests to silence pent-up public demands for more democratic governance.
August 1, 2019
This Cold War relic is an outrageous violation of citizens’ rights.
July 3, 2019
A new book by David Maraniss captures the spirit of the Independence Day far more truly than Trump’s parade.
March 8, 2019
The immigration-enforcement agency has launched a deportation campaign involving coercion, “demonstrably false” court declarations, and outright lies.
