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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.

As the gang conspiracy trial of rapper Young Thug and his famed rap collective, YSL, extends past 20 days in Atlanta, we’re bringing you a conversation about the use of rap lyrics in court. Despite...

This week, At Liberty is coming to you live from the 2024 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, hosting a discussion with queer and transgender storytellers. The conversation delves into the challenges they face...

This year marks the 51st anniversary since the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Roe v. Wade, protecting the constitutional right to abortion in 1973. Unfortunately, this anniversary is marred by the overturn of...

Last year, states passed a record number of bills restricting health care, athletics, public accommodations, expression, and educational materials for trans people — trans kids, more specifically. With the turn of a new year, the...

“Imagine that you, at age fifteen, have been sentenced to social death, life without parole, in a space nine feet by seven—the size of a freight elevator—where for twenty-two to twenty-four hours a day you...

For a special year-end holiday episode, we’re bringing you our third edition of “³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ kids take over At Liberty.†Kids of ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ staff spoke to their parents about what they do at work and how...

2023 is coming to a close, and we have weathered so much this year. At the ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥, we continue to fight for civil rights and civil liberties across the country. We’re prying open every opportunity...

Free speech is one of the hallmarks of a functioning democracy and one of our fundamental constitutional rights. At the ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥, we know that it's precisely in times of crisis and fear when free speech,...

On January 21, 2017, a day after the inauguration of former President Donald Trump, activist and journalist Raquel Willis approached the podium at the inaugural Women’s March in Washington, D.C. to share her story at...

The holiday season is upon us. This week, we are revisiting our conversation with author and activist Glennon Doyle. In this conversation, Doyle and host Kendall Ciesemier discuss how to bring loved ones into our...