After the Senate essentially pussied out yesterday and agreed to extend the PATRIOT Act for six...

Just as the Christmas travel rush hits, the TSA has announced that some small, sharp...

Everyone's favorite piece of legislation, the USA PATRIOT Act, has been given a new life, of sorts.

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled today that swingers...

He was a student, a senior at the University of Massachusetts. He was doing "research," he said, for a class on totalitarianism. But when the government...

US District Court Judge James Robertson was part of a special court established to oversee government surveillance. But he has now resigned, reportedly...

For 25 years, inmates sent to prison in California have been automatically segregated by race for their first 60 days of confinement in "reception centers."...

At least partly fueled by revelations that Bush has authorized warrantless surveillance of Americans,...

Our own Michael J. Totten has been living in Lebanon for several months, investigating and...

Asshole school administrators and police officers in Hartford, Connecticut have decided to attack what is apparently a fucking prevalent problem in high...

The very first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment, added to the US Constitution...

Last month, a group of Hurricane Katrina victims sued FEMA in order to get the housing assistance...

A search of a jail operated by the Iraq Interior Ministry revealed that more than a dozen prisoners there had been subjected to electric...

Cornel Young Jr. was an off-duty police officer enjoying a meal at a Providence, Rhode Island diner when he saw a fight break out in the parking lot. The...

From summer camp to college dorms, making skits that parody life and situations you face are a fairly common source of amateur amusement. But when you...

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled today that a...

Today, the US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of Rumsfeld v.

New guidelines for the amount of a drug needed for someone to be charged with "possession with intent to supply" rather than just "possession" have caused...