Human Rights

The National Security apparatus that seemed to have lost much of its purpose with the fall of the Soviet Union got a new lease on life.

Edward Snowden's leaks of top-secret NSA documents has unleashed a wave of very strong feelings of anger and betrayal – of the Fourth Amendment prohibition on unreasonable and unwarranted …

Eugene Robinson looks at the Paula Deens scandal and the slippery slope of that nostalgic longing for the good old days of the antebellum south.

Todd Gitlin analyzes the future of surveillance in this country and its affect on American citizens.

In a major blow for voting rights, the U.S. Supreme Court has invalidated an integral part of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act, the crowning achievement of the 1960s …

This one looks at yet another revelation that the federal government doesn't operate with the kind of oversight and accountability rules everyone else has to play by.

We should not fear some Orwellian future state where we're subjected to total electronic scrutiny - it's our present reality.

The activism in Texas shows that it's time to abandon the notion that progressivism is a coastal phenomenon.

Last week, for the first time ever, an international body asked questions about the Vatican's handling of widespread and systemic rape and sexual violence. Last Wednesday, survivors of rape …