at liberty podcast

At Liberty is a podcast that explores the most pressing civil rights and civil liberties questions of our time. New episodes air biweekly on Fridays.

This week, we’re revisiting one of our year-end favorites, a conversation about ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ staffers’ favorite holiday movies. So grab some popcorn and enjoy the show. We’ll see you again in 2021. 

How to sum up 2020? Stressful? Uncertain? Hard? If you’re like some ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ staffers, one note of help came quite literally from listening to music. For a special year-end holiday episode, we asked a few...

The 2020 election was notable for a lot of reasons, but one winner really stood out: drug legalization. Five states legalized either medicinal or adult use of marijuana. Oregon and D.C. went even further and...

The holidays can be a challenging time for many. One of the reasons for the extra anxiety we may feel is due to the kinds of conversations and sometimes, conflict, that can come up when...

Please note that this episode contains conversation around sexual violence.

As of now, we know the status of two of the three branches of the federal government. We have President-elect Joe Biden in the executive and an even more conservative majority in the Supreme Court...

Thanksgiving is a holiday framed by our history books as a joyful celebration between those who arrived on the Mayflower to Plymouth, Massachusetts and the indigenous Americans already living on the land. In reality, the...

In early October, the United States Labor Department reported that women were leaving the workforce at four times the rate of men. A few months earlier, a report from McKinsey Global revealed that while women...

The Trump campaign is pursuing legal challenges in battleground states as the pathways to President Trump’s reelection narrow. These challenges involve attempts to stop or challenge the vote count. And because of the record number...

Tomorrow's the big day: Election Day! The last day to vote. Here at the ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥, we have just one closing argument: Everyone should be able to vote, and everyone’s vote should be counted. So, we...