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 Oct 6, 2023


 Feb 4, 2019

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At Liberty is a weekly podcast from the ACLU that explores the biggest civil rights and civil liberties issues of the day. A production of ACLU, Inc.

Episode Date
Special Edition: Abortion Is Back at the Supreme Court
Mar 28, 2024
In 'Problemista,' Julio Torres Crafts an Imaginative Immigration Story
Mar 21, 2024
This Economic Policy Could Break the Poverty Cycle
Mar 14, 2024
Biden's Border Politics Won't Fix Our Immigration System
Mar 07, 2024
In Alabama, Embryos Are People and It Won't Stop There
Feb 29, 2024
This Case Could Upend the Death Penalty In North Carolina
Feb 22, 2024
3 States, 3 Plaintiffs, and the Fight for Fair District Maps
Feb 15, 2024
How to Dismantle the Anti-DEI Machine
Feb 08, 2024
Rap Is Art Not Evidence
Feb 01, 2024
Live From Sundance: Telling Better Queer and Trans Stories
Jan 25, 2024
Busy Philipps Is Fed up With Abortion Bans
Jan 18, 2024
The Way Forward for Trans Justice
Jan 11, 2024
It's Time to End Solitary Confinement: Ian Manuel's Story
Jan 04, 2024
ACLU Kids Tell Us How We Can Do Better
Dec 21, 2023
2023 in Review: The Latest on the Stories That Made Our Year
Dec 14, 2023
The Unconstitutional Silencing of Pro-Palestinian Student Groups
Dec 07, 2023
How Activist Raquel Willis Found Her Voice and Power
Nov 30, 2023
Glennon Doyle on Leading Loved Ones in the Fight for Justice
Nov 21, 2023
The Resurgence of Labor Strikes and Union Power
Nov 16, 2023
We’re Winning Big at the Polls
Nov 09, 2023
We All Pathologized Britney Spears
Nov 02, 2023
Religious Communities in Ohio Are Fighting To Preserve Reproductive Rights
Oct 26, 2023
How ACT UP Changed the Face of AIDS and Activism
Oct 19, 2023
We're Suing Florida for Anti-Asian Housing Discrimination
Oct 12, 2023
Should the Government Control What Kids See Online?
Oct 05, 2023
Kids Sued Montana Over Climate Change—Here’s How They Won
Sep 28, 2023
American Poverty Is Our Problem To Fix
Sep 21, 2023
This Student Fought a School Fine for Four Years
Sep 14, 2023
Why Is Texas Eliminating School Libraries?
Sep 07, 2023
No One Should Die In Custody
Jul 27, 2023
The Decade-Long Fight for Pregnant Workers
Jul 20, 2023
10 Years of #BlackLivesMatter: Progress and Backlash
Jul 13, 2023
Supreme Court Term in Review: Reconciling Our Losses and Wins
Jul 06, 2023
Special Edition: The Supreme Court Overturns Affirmative Action
Jun 30, 2023
A Year Without Roe: Your Stories
Jun 22, 2023
These Queer Lawmakers Will Not Be Silenced
Jun 15, 2023
Let Trans Kids Speak for Themselves
Jun 08, 2023
The Fight for Indigenous Education
Jun 01, 2023
Sasha Colby Is Winning in More Ways Than One
May 25, 2023
The Consequences of Chicago’s Segregated Housing History
May 18, 2023
Banning TikTok is a Really Bad Idea
May 11, 2023
Biden's Asylum Policy is From Trump's Playbook
May 04, 2023
Why and How Trans Hate is Spreading
Apr 27, 2023
Clemency Is One Answer to the War On Drugs
Apr 20, 2023
What Happens In Tennessee Won't Stay in Tennessee
Apr 13, 2023
Minnesota Just Restored Voting Rights for 55,000 People
Apr 06, 2023
This Law Criminalizes Black Trans Women
Mar 30, 2023
Mandatory Reporting Is Destroying Families
Mar 23, 2023
The Revolutionary Power of Teenage Girls
Mar 16, 2023
How Originalism Hurts Women
Mar 09, 2023
Reckoning with America's Racial Residential Segregation
Mar 02, 2023
Jon Batiste on the Joy of Black Music
Feb 23, 2023
Their Memoir Is One of the Most Banned Books in America
Feb 16, 2023
An Abortion Pill Could Soon Be Banned Nationwide
Feb 09, 2023
The Untold Story of Black Pittsburgh's Alternative to Police
Feb 02, 2023
Louisiana's Former Death Row is Now Holding Kids
Jan 26, 2023
Roe's 50th Year Undid Its Promise
Jan 19, 2023
The Dangers of Drag Bans with Peppermint
Jan 12, 2023
Dahlia Lithwick on the Law's Hidden Heroes: Women
Jan 05, 2023
ACLU Kids Take the Mic
Dec 21, 2022
2022 Wins With David Cole
Dec 15, 2022
Student Debt Is a Racial Justice Issue​
Dec 08, 2022
Bars Behind Bars: The Use of Rap Lyrics in Court
Dec 01, 2022
It's Time to Tell Accurate Indigenous Stories
Nov 22, 2022
Alok Vaid-Menon on the Fight for Gender Freedom
Nov 17, 2022
Abortion Rights Won the Midterms, Now What?
Nov 10, 2022
What's on Your Midterm Ballot?
Nov 03, 2022
Is SCOTUS Coming for Indigenous Children?
Oct 27, 2022
This Supreme Court Case Could Upend Democracy
Oct 20, 2022
The Century-Long Fight Over Transgender Youth
Oct 13, 2022
Is the Government Tracking Your Abortion?
Oct 06, 2022
How the Supreme Court Could Silence Black Voters
Sep 29, 2022
A Tale of Two Victories: Abortion in Kansas and Michigan
Sep 22, 2022
How to Fight Your School's Sexist Dress Code
Sep 15, 2022
This Podcast Could Be Banned in Florida Schools
Sep 08, 2022
California's Fight for Reparations
Jul 28, 2022
Actress Ali Stroker on Disability Pride and Representation
Jul 21, 2022
Roe's Overturn Threatens All Reproductive Care
Jul 14, 2022
The State of Our Democracy With Anthony Romero
Jul 07, 2022
Living Without Roe: How Can I Help?
Jun 30, 2022
Post Roe: The Supreme Court Won’t Stop at Abortion
Jun 24, 2022
The Overcriminalization of America
Jun 23, 2022
What Does Abortion Care Look Like Post-Roe? Look to Texas.
Jun 16, 2022
How Dismantling Roe Puts Interracial Marriage at Risk
Jun 09, 2022
Alok Vaid-Menon Wants You to Reimagine Gender
Jun 02, 2022
Southern Abortion Activists Share Their Playbook
May 26, 2022
The Impact of Intergenerational Immigrant Trauma
May 19, 2022
The Casualties of Overturning Roe
May 12, 2022
Ask an Expert: What are My Speech Rights At School?
May 10, 2022
Special Edition: Strategies for the End of Roe
May 03, 2022
Ask an Expert: Is My Tweet Protected Speech?
May 03, 2022
Pain Relief Is a Civil Right
Apr 28, 2022
Ask an Expert: What Is Free Speech?
Apr 26, 2022
Black Lives Matter DC v. Trump
Apr 21, 2022
Kimberlé Crenshaw on Anti-Racism Education Bans
Apr 14, 2022
“Sexual Justice” Doesn’t Have to Mean Criminal Justice
Apr 07, 2022
Affirmative Action Is the Floor, Not the Ceiling
Mar 31, 2022
Refugees of Color Matter Too
Mar 24, 2022
"Protecting Women and Children" Is a Shield for Transphobia
Mar 17, 2022
Jon Batiste on Social Music, Family, and Freedom
Mar 10, 2022
The Politics of Pleasure
Mar 03, 2022
Imani Perry Thinks You’re Wrong About the South
Feb 24, 2022
Black Women Take the Supreme Court
Feb 17, 2022
The Insidious Practice of Racial Gerrymandering
Feb 10, 2022
The Movement to Erase Black History and Culture
Feb 03, 2022
Why Is America so Keen on Separating Families?
Jan 27, 2022
Will This Be Roe’s Last Anniversary?
Jan 20, 2022
How to Win an Election From Jail
Jan 13, 2022
LaTosha Brown is Fighting for Voting Rights Ahead of the Midterms
Jan 06, 2022
ACLU Staffers Share Their Favorite Holiday Recipes
Dec 23, 2021
An Update on Our Biggest Stories of 2021
Dec 16, 2021
The Case for Optimism: 2021 Legal Wins at the ACLU
Dec 09, 2021
Supreme Court Hears Mississippi Abortion Case That Could Overturn Roe
Dec 02, 2021
Glennon Doyle on Having Hard Holiday Conversations
Nov 23, 2021
My True Crime Obsession
Nov 18, 2021
Judy Heumann on Disability Discrimination and The Fight For Rights
Nov 11, 2021
Can the Government Wrongfully Spy on You and Get Away With It?
Nov 04, 2021
Special Edition: Texas Abortion Ban at the Supreme Court
Nov 02, 2021
The Biden Administration's Immigration Double Talk
Oct 28, 2021
Finding Trans Joy Through Sports
Oct 21, 2021
Glitch in the Code: Black Girls and Algorithmic Justice
Oct 14, 2021
This Fall's Fight Against Forced Pregnancy
Oct 07, 2021
Climate Change Is a Racial Justice Issue
Sep 30, 2021
Blues Musician Takes On White Supremacy One KKK Member at a Time
Sep 23, 2021
Bans on School Mask Mandates Discriminate Against Disabled Kids
Sep 16, 2021
Survivors of the CIA Torture Program Almost 20 Years Later
Sep 09, 2021
How To End the Preschool to Prison Pipeline
Sep 02, 2021
Jill Lepore on What It Means to be an American Citizen
Aug 26, 2021
Ashley C. Ford on Growing Up With an Incarcerated Parent
Aug 19, 2021
Simone Biles, Sha’Carri Richardson, and How the Olympics Failed Black Women
Aug 12, 2021
Kimberlé Crenshaw on Teaching the Truth about Race in America
Aug 05, 2021
The Texas Legislature's Culture War
Jul 29, 2021
Tony Winner Ali Stroker Reframes Disability Representation and Identity
Jul 22, 2021
Do Black Americans Have the Right to Bear Arms?
Jul 15, 2021
Why Britney Can't Get Out of Her Conservatorship
Jul 08, 2021
Trump's Supreme Court Appointees Frustrate Ultra Conservatives...Mostly
Jul 02, 2021
This Minnesota Mayor Isn't Waiting for Another Police Shooting
Jun 24, 2021
Special Edition: Supreme Court Says No License to Discriminate
Jun 18, 2021
Defending Speech We Hate
Jun 17, 2021
Lives First, Profits Later: How To Close the Global Vaccine Gap
Jun 08, 2021
How the Police Lobby Impedes Public Safety
Jun 03, 2021
The Tulsa Race Massacre and the Violence of Forgetting
May 27, 2021
Meet the Students Who Are Taking on Comcast
May 20, 2021
How to Save Lives in Jail During the Opioid Crisis
May 13, 2021
Your Friendly Neighborhood Bank: The Post Office
May 06, 2021
Supreme Court Considers a Cheerleader's Free Speech
Apr 27, 2021
Derek Chauvin Verdict Means Accountability, Not Justice
Apr 21, 2021
Daunte Wright Should Never Have Been Stopped
Apr 14, 2021
The Oscar-Nominated Film Uplifting the Disability Rights Revolution
Apr 08, 2021
Special Report: Chase Strangio on the Legislative Assault on Trans Youth
Apr 07, 2021
Why New Domestic Terrorism Laws Won't End White Supremacy
Apr 01, 2021
Writer and Artist Chanel Miller on Surviving, Identity, and Activism
Mar 25, 2021
Sheriff Kristin Graziano Wants to End Racist Policing
Mar 18, 2021
State Senator Sarah McBride on Making History and Affirming Trans Lives
Mar 11, 2021
Activist Amanda Nguyen on the Rise of Attacks on Asian Americans
Mar 04, 2021
Organizer LaTosha Brown on Building the New South
Feb 25, 2021
Google This: Algorithmic Oppression
Feb 18, 2021
How To Build Systemic Equality Post Trump
Feb 11, 2021
Filmmaker Garrett Bradley on Time in the Criminal Justice System
Feb 04, 2021
What Does Free Speech Mean Online?
Jan 28, 2021
An End to the Muslim Ban Is Just the Beginning
Jan 21, 2021
Why the ACLU Called for Trump's Impeachment
Jan 14, 2021
Special Edition: ACLU Responds to Events at the U.S. Capitol
Jan 08, 2021
For Muslims, Even Prayers Aren't Private
Jan 07, 2021
A Holiday Movie Marathon
Dec 31, 2020
The Songs That Helped ACLU Staffers Survive 2020
Dec 22, 2020
The Winner of the 2020 Election: Drug Legalization
Dec 17, 2020
Glennon Doyle on Telling Loved Ones Hard Truths
Dec 10, 2020
Camonghne Felix on Abolition as a Sexual Violence Survivor
Dec 03, 2020
Reframing and Re-learning American History With Nikole Hannah-Jones
Nov 26, 2020
New Court, New President: What's Next for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Nov 19, 2020
How COVID-19 Is Setting Working Women Back
Nov 12, 2020
Racial Justice Demands That Every Vote Is Counted
Nov 06, 2020
Know Your Voting Rights - At the Polls Series
Nov 02, 2020
What Will End Police Violence?
Oct 29, 2020
Why Do We Take Voting Rights Away in America? - At the Polls Series
Oct 27, 2020
The Supreme Court Case That Could Jeopardize LGBTQ Rights
Oct 22, 2020
You Asked, We Answered - At the Polls Series
Oct 20, 2020
Photographer Josue Rivas on Indigenous Representation
Oct 15, 2020
Why Is It so Hard for 25% of Americans to Vote? - At the Polls Series
Oct 13, 2020
Why Are Police the Wrong Response to Mental Health Crises?
Oct 08, 2020
How Do We Get Young People to Vote? - At the Polls Series
Oct 06, 2020
The Supreme Court Rulings You're Not Hearing About
Oct 01, 2020
Will Litigation Decide the 2020 Election? - At the Polls Series
Sep 29, 2020
Chase Strangio on the New Frontier of Attacks on Trans Youth
Sep 24, 2020
Will the Fate of the USPS Affect Voter Access? - At the Polls Series
Sep 22, 2020
The Psychology of Social Isolation
Sep 17, 2020
What Will Election Night Look Like in a Global Pandemic? - At the Polls Series
Sep 15, 2020
The Myth of the "Bad" Immigrant
Sep 10, 2020
Why Evicting Millions During a Pandemic is Bad for Our Democracy
Sep 03, 2020
A Not So Happy Meal: McDonald's Can't Fix America's Race Problem
Aug 27, 2020
College Athletes and the Systems that Silence Them
Aug 20, 2020
The Black Women Behind the Ongoing Fight for Suffrage
Aug 13, 2020
The Constitutional Crisis Wrought by Trump's Federal Troops
Aug 06, 2020
"Crip Camp" Directors on the Overlooked Disability Rights Movement
Jul 30, 2020
Should We Abolish The Police?
Jul 23, 2020
Padma Lakshmi on Immigration, Food, and Authorship
Jul 16, 2020
The Supreme Court Term No One Expected
Jul 10, 2020
How Reproductive Justice Is Part of an Anti-Racist Agenda
Jul 09, 2020
Activist Brittany Packnett Cunningham on Building a Lasting Movement
Jul 02, 2020
Supreme Court Decision Undermines the Rights of Asylum Seekers
Jun 26, 2020
All the President's Subpoenas
Jun 25, 2020
A Trans Organizer on the Movement to Decriminalize Sex Work (ep. 105)
Jun 18, 2020
A Landmark Supreme Court Decision Affirms LGBTQ Rights
Jun 16, 2020
Policing the Press: A Journalist on the Frontlines
Jun 11, 2020
Why Is It So Hard to Hold Police Accountable?
Jun 04, 2020
Anthony Romero on Leading in Times of Crisis
May 28, 2020
100 episodes, Two Years, and One Pandemic Later
May 21, 2020
DeRay McKesson on the Threat to Protesters' Rights
May 14, 2020
Poetry, Prison, and the Pandemic
May 07, 2020
A COVID-19 Balancing Act: Public Health and Privacy
Apr 30, 2020
Centering Racial Equity in the Fight to Legalize Marijuana
Apr 23, 2020
What it's like in ICE Detention During a Pandemic
Apr 16, 2020
Isolation, Before and During a Pandemic
Apr 09, 2020
COVID-19 Response: Shrink the Criminal Justice Footprint
Apr 02, 2020
How the ACLU is responding to COVID-19
Mar 26, 2020
Megan Rapinoe on Gender Discrimination, Athlete Activism, and LGBTQ Equality
Mar 19, 2020
Stacey Abrams Wants to Make Your Vote Count
Mar 12, 2020
Supreme Court Dispatch: The Latest Threat to Abortion Access
Mar 05, 2020
The Supreme Court Case Threatening Asylum
Feb 27, 2020
"Your hair is okay. You are okay."
Feb 20, 2020
The Regulation of Marriage and Sex
Feb 13, 2020
Land, Language, and Lifeways: What Native Americans Lost
Feb 06, 2020
Harnessing History and Solidarity to Stop Migrant Detention
Jan 30, 2020
Fighting for Justice After Execution
Jan 23, 2020
Ayelet Waldman on the ACLU’s 100 Year Fight
Jan 16, 2020
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Stamp on the ACLU
Jan 09, 2020
How To Stop Your City from Spying on You
Jan 02, 2020
What We Do At The ACLU, Told By Our Kids
Dec 23, 2019
A Case for Religious Liberty
Dec 19, 2019
Pregnancy Discrimination a Mile High
Dec 12, 2019
Why Incarceration Doesn't Reduce Violence
Dec 05, 2019
Sergio de la Pava on Literature and Law
Nov 27, 2019
Fighting for Civil Liberties, and Tofurky, in Arkansas
Nov 21, 2019
Why the FBI Ignores White Supremacist Violence
Nov 14, 2019
Monitoring Facebook for Ad Discrimination
Nov 07, 2019
Marriage as a Tool of White Supremacy
Oct 31, 2019
A Humanitarian Crisis of Our Own Making
Oct 24, 2019
Abortion Rights: A Tale of Two States
Oct 17, 2019
The Most Racist Supreme Court Decisions You've Probably Never Heard Of
Oct 10, 2019
The Historic Trans Rights Case Before the Supreme Court
Oct 03, 2019
Edward Snowden's Permanent Record
Sep 30, 2019
What to Expect From the Coming Supreme Court Term
Sep 26, 2019
Gavin Grimm, From Teen Activist to Trans Icon
Sep 19, 2019
How the War on Terror Corrupted America
Sep 11, 2019
The Anti-Immigration Fervor That Swept America in the Early 20th Century
Sep 05, 2019
A Former Prosecutor's 'Radical Thoughts' on the System Set Up to Control Black Men
Aug 29, 2019
Nikole Hannah-Jones on The 1619 Project’s Reframing of American History
Aug 22, 2019
Comedian W. Kamau Bell on Making Sense of America
Aug 15, 2019
How One Woman Took on Misogyny and Sexual Violence in the Military
Aug 08, 2019
Obstacles and Opportunities in the Fight for Police Accountability
Aug 01, 2019
The Constitution Gets the Broadway Treatment
Jul 25, 2019
Have We Reached Peak Xenophobia Yet?
Jul 18, 2019
How to Stop Your City From Spying on You
Jul 11, 2019
The Case for D.C. Statehood
Jul 04, 2019
Making Sense of the Last Supreme Court Term
Jul 01, 2019
What the Supreme Court's Census Decision Means
Jun 27, 2019
The Next Frontier in Data Privacy
Jun 20, 2019
Why It's Time to Talk About Reparations
Jun 13, 2019
Paul Butler on Policing Black Men and Transforming the System
Jun 06, 2019
The Latest Assault on Abortion Rights
May 30, 2019
At Liberty Live! Feat. Olivia Wilde and Katie Silberman on “Booksmart”
May 23, 2019
School Segregation 65 Years After Brown v. Board
May 16, 2019
Wyatt Cenac on America’s Problem Areas
May 09, 2019
Abuse and Accountability at the Border
May 02, 2019
Discrimination in the Digital Age
Apr 25, 2019
The Question of Who Gets to Count in the Census Goes to the Supreme Court
Apr 18, 2019
Indigenous Justice in Montana
Apr 11, 2019
At Liberty Live! Sergio de la Pava on Literature and Law
Apr 04, 2019
The Threat of Facial Recognition
Mar 28, 2019
A Poet Gives a 360 Degree View of the Criminal Justice System
Mar 21, 2019
At Liberty Live from SXSW! Feat. Tom Morello
Mar 14, 2019
The Rocky Myers Case
Mar 07, 2019
The Racist Reality of Voter Suppression
Feb 28, 2019
Alan Rusbridger on the Press in Times of Crisis
Feb 21, 2019
Marriage and the Regulation of Sex
Feb 14, 2019
At Liberty Live! Kwame Anthony Appiah on Identity and the Law
Feb 07, 2019
Adam McKay on Dick Cheney's Legacy
Jan 31, 2019
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Stamp on the ACLU
Jan 24, 2019
A Wave of Laws Target Boycotts of Israel
Jan 17, 2019
Whither Abortion Rights?
Jan 10, 2019
ACLU Staffers Go to the Movies
Dec 20, 2018
The Criminalization of Homelessness
Dec 13, 2018
Jill Lepore on the Construction of American Citizenship
Dec 06, 2018
A Shifting Landscape for Transgender Rights
Nov 29, 2018
A Growing Movement for Ethical Tech
Nov 21, 2018
What’s the Deal With Florida?
Nov 15, 2018
In Florida, a Historic Victory for Voting Rights
Nov 07, 2018
Voting Rights and the Midterms
Nov 01, 2018
Tarana Burke and Alyssa Milano on the Future of #MeToo
Oct 25, 2018
Civil Liberties on the Midterm Ballot
Oct 18, 2018
Affirmative Action and the Case Against Harvard
Oct 11, 2018
Why the ACLU Opposes Kavanaugh
Oct 02, 2018
What Happens When Prisoners Go on Strike?
Sep 27, 2018
How the ‘War on Terror’ Corrupted America
Sep 20, 2018
Family Separation Update: Searching for Parents in Guatemala
Sep 13, 2018
Brett Kavanaugh and the Case Against the Supreme Court
Sep 06, 2018
Criminalizing Schoolkids
Aug 30, 2018
Since When Is Every Immigrant A Criminal?
Aug 23, 2018
A Nation in Love With Locking People Up
Aug 16, 2018
Lessons From Charlottesville
Aug 09, 2018
How to Fight an Algorithm
Aug 02, 2018
America’s Criminalization of Blackness
Jul 26, 2018
Desmond Meade and Dale Ho on Restoring the Right to Vote
Jul 19, 2018
Patrisse Cullors on a Lifetime of Activism and the Founding of Black Lives Matter
Jul 12, 2018
ACLU Legal Director David Cole on the Supreme Court's Uncertain Future
Jul 05, 2018
Lee Gelernt on a Major Victory for Immigrant Families
Jun 28, 2018
Cecile Richards on the Fight for Reproductive Rights
Jun 28, 2018