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.

Our public and school libraries should be a thriving ground for freedom of speech and freedom of thought.

ACLU Justice Division leader Ellen Flenniken saw people across the country come together to stand up for free speech, protest peacefully, and show that our power grows when we act as one.

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

Families share how Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order upended their hopes, and forced them to consider early births or leaving the U.S.

Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebrates and honors Native American peoples and commemorates their histories and cultures.