Civil Liberties

After advocating the death penalty for several young men of color even after DNA proved...

My friend Radley Balko has a Washington Post column about Trump's new pick for Attorney...

It should come as a surprise to no on that the thoroughly racist Donald Trump...

I absolutely despise the League of the South, a white supremacist, neo-Confederate organization that loves...

The Supreme Court issued an important ruling on Thursday in a 4th Amendment case, saying...

Being from Michigan, I know full well how dangerous Betsy DeVos' views on everything, especially...

The Bridge, an excellent non-profit journalism organization here in Michigan, has a report about how...

The Supreme Court term is beginning to wind down, with about four weeks left to...

When the Lawrence Krauss story came out a couple weeks ago, a lot of his...

Continuing his near-perfect record of nominating the worst people imaginable to positions in the federal...

Now this is what I've been waiting a very long time to see, a teacher...

I wrote a couple weeks ago about Lansing Catholic High School punishing football players who...

CNN found the audio of an interview with Roy Moore in 2011 in which he...

During the protests against racist policing in St. Louis, several of my friends have been...

Immediately after the terror attack in New York City, Trump predictably flapped his jaws about...

Arlan Meekhof, the Senate Majority Leader here in Michigan, is promoting a bill that would...

The DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week that the police do need to...

A teacher here in Michigan is suspended pending an investigation for allegedly physically assaulting a...

In a remarkable bit of bipartisanship, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to defund Attorney...

Candice Jackson, Trump's appointee who heads the Department of Education's Civil Rights Division, listed among...

As expected, Trump has officially reversed limitations put by President Obama on the sale or...

In the standard Friday night news dump, Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio, as predicted. The signs...

On Friday, just before firing Reince Priebus, Trump spoke to a group of police officers...

A public school in Indiana told a teacher that he can't inform students that they...

Over the last few years, many states have passed laws to restrict the manifestly corrupt...

Andrew Napolitano is still carrying water for Donald Trump, repeating the administration's talking points by...

With the new story about Jared Kushner trying to set up a backchannel to communicate...

The Detroit News reports that the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement are using a...

Trump had a "very friendly" call with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, a brutal, vicious thug...

This is a story that infuriates me. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has disbanded an advisory...