Using broad language to allow indefinite detention does not pass constitutional muster.read more

His declaration was historic and gutsy. And it made me think of a gay couple that didn’t live to see the day.read more

Twenty years have passed since the verdict in the Rodney King beating case, and yet the problems of police brutality and racial profiling remain with us.read more

Grass’s words are not the words of an anti-Semite. They are the words of a man of conscience and a man of peace, daring to speak out even as he knows the slurs are coming.read more

These are licenses to kill, and people are using them.read more

I am disappointed that the NYPD chose to make me a target of their spying. But I am truly angered by the role that police play in communities of color.read more

The American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin is backing the cartoonist Mike Konopacki, who is facing a felony investigation for a parody press release he issued.read more

It’s a crisp sunny morning in late December. I’m sitting in my therapist’s lobby in Midtown Manhattan, anxiously waiting for my girlfriend, Sabrina, to arrive. She’s visiting my shrink with me so we can duke out our premarital differences, which can be boiled down to one, ever-nagging question: Why, after three-and-a-half happy years together, do I still cringe at the thought of getting married?read more

The NYPD placed prejudicial fear in the hearts and minds of law enforcement. When police are taught to fear an entire community, they behave sloppily, ignore protocol and overreach boundaries.read more

"It is totally inappropriate to ask citizens to waive their rights away."read more