Human Rights

Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who exposed the NSA's domestic surveillance plot, might become one of the most important people is US history.

A report warns gender discrimination is built into US immigration law, but Congress appears unfazed.

Protest against the plight of the elderly, poor, disenfranchised and dispossessed as opposed to the fate enjoyed by wealthy plutocrats took the form of multi-pronged actions on June 11 …

As the American Civil Liberties Union sues the Obama administration over its secret NSA phone spying program, we look at how the government could use phone records to determine …

Palantir Technologies is now the leading embodiment of online Big Brother.

An end to indefinite detention seems never to have been part of the Obama administration's plan.

As the trial of Bradley Manning continues, Edward Snowden comes out as the NSA whistleblower who revealed the secret massive surveillance state.

Fifty years after his death, Amy Goodman sits down with the wife of civil rights activist Medgar Evans to talk about his legacy.

A comprehensive immigration reform package passed its first hurdle on Tuesday as the Senate voted 82-15 to begin debate on legislation. A key division is over the civil liberties …

The roots of the US acquisition of its Naval base at Guantanamo Bay Cuba, where military commissions will be held this month for Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Khalid Sheikh …