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Mar 21, 2025
Machine Surveillance is Being Super-Charged by Large AI Models
Privacy and Technology
Limits and guardrails are vital to protect our privacy and liberty — as well as our sanity — against omnipresent AI surveillance.
Limits and guardrails are vital to protect our privacy and liberty — as well as our sanity — against omnipresent AI surveillance.
Mar 14, 2025
Trump’s Attack on the Department of Education, Explained
The Trump administration just put millions of students’ education and civil rights at risk by closing key Department of Education offices and firing half of its workforce.
The Trump administration just put millions of students’ education and civil rights at risk by closing key Department of Education offices and firing half of its workforce.
Mar 6, 2025
ACLU Reads: Stories About Immigrants and Refugees
Immigrants' Rights
Craving something good to read? Want to find new ways to inform your activism or be a better ally? It’s time to pick up a good book.
By Em Powers
Craving something good to read? Want to find new ways to inform your activism or be a better ally? It’s time to pick up a good book.
By Em Powers
Mar 6, 2025
Rights of Federal Employees with Disabilities, Explained
Disability Rights
The Trump administration has issued a number of directives affecting federal employees with disabilities, but laws protecting these workers remain.
The Trump administration has issued a number of directives affecting federal employees with disabilities, but laws protecting these workers remain.
Feb 4, 2025
What is an Executive Order and How Does it Work?
What executive orders can – and cannot – do, and why we have them in the first place
What executive orders can – and cannot – do, and why we have them in the first place
Jan 30, 2025
Public Schools are Not Sunday Schools
Religious Liberty
Religious freedom is one of our country’s most treasured liberties. Every individual and family — not politicians or the government — gets to decide for themselves what religious beliefs, if any, they adopt...
By Cody J. Schuler
Religious freedom is one of our country’s most treasured liberties. Every individual and family — not politicians or the government — gets to decide for themselves what religious beliefs, if any, they adopt...