News & Commentary

From protests and journalism to social media and campus speech, explore how the First Amendment safeguards everyone — including immigrants — and what it actually covers.

In our series, ACLU staffers share books and merch to give this holiday season that have helped them better understand civil liberties and civil rights, fight for our communities and our Constitution, and increase engagement in creating a more perfect union.

For many of us, continuing to participate in Thanksgiving with integrity means breaking with traditions that rely on fictionalized accounts of history.

This Veterans Day, we renew our commitment to ensuring that the rights of those who serve are honored and protected.

What President Donald Trump’s latest memorandum targeting civil society does, does not, and cannot do.

Here we honor great Native American leaders – not that other guy.

Build it (an authoritarian tracking infrastructure) and they (expanded uses) will come

Do large language models have an inherent politics?

Children born to parents who are undocumented or have temporary status will retain their right to birthright citizenship. The ACLU explains how the legal fight unfolded.