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.

Surveillance technology is slowly encroaching on every part of our lives. With regulation at the federal level slow to materialize, local governments are taking action. Since this episode first ran in July, more American cities...

For a special year-end holiday episode, we decided to ask some ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ staff to have a conversation with their kids about the work they do. On this episode, you’ll hear kids learn about gerrymandering, how...

At the ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥, we receive lots of holiday mail, and not all of it brings tidings of comfort and joy. In this episode, we share a few letters that accuse the ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ of being "anti-Christian"...

This week, the ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥'s Women's Rights Project filed a pair of federal lawsuits against Frontier Airlines for discriminating against pregnant and breastfeeding employees. We talked to flight attendant Melissa Hodgkins and pilot Shannon Kiedrowski about...

Mass incarceration in the U.S. is an indisputable fact, but most reforms focus on nonviolent offenses. As uncomfortable as it may be, we can't dismantle mass incarceration without changing the way we think about, talk...

Sergio de la Pava is a critically acclaimed novelist (A Naked Singularity, Personae, Lost Empress) and a full-time public defender who has represented thousands of criminal defendants over the last two decades. Earlier this year,...

This year, the ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ of Arkansas celebrates 50 years of protecting civil liberties. From challenging voter ID laws, to protecting the right to boycott, to defending the First Amendment rights of Tofurky, the ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ of...

The FBI is supposed to keep us safe, protect our rights, and defend the rule of law. Yet for more than a century, the FBI has aggressively targeted dissidents, gone after minorities, and overstepped its...

Facebook has come under a lot of scrutiny lately, for everything from its policy on political ads to its logo. But one development that's gotten less attention is its new portal for advertisers. Now, advertisers...

The Supreme Court struck down bans on interracial marriage in Loving v. Virginia, the landmark ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ case decided in 1967. But the government‘s regulation of marriage and sex didn’t start with anti-miscegenation laws or end...