at liberty podcast

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.

Know Your Rights

It may be graduation season, but here on At Liberty, class is still in session鈥攁nd this week, we鈥檙e exploring students鈥 right to learn. Since the Trump administration took office, schools across the country have faced...

End-to-end encryption. Burner phones. Biometric authentication. Our technology is more advanced than ever, but what does that mean for our digital footprints鈥攁nd how our data is tracked, whether we鈥檙e crossing a US border or at...

You know that phrase 鈥渂orn on the wrong side of the tracks鈥? Well, there鈥檚 something to it: highways, roads, and sidewalks across America have, for decades, been racial and economic dividers. These thoroughfares don鈥檛 just...

Seventeen. That鈥檚 the number of states suing the US government to end federal protections for disabled individuals. 880 billion. That鈥檚 the amount of money that Congress is primed to cut from Medicaid funding. One in...

Restaurants. Churches. Street corners. These are community spaces, not sites where immigrants and their loved ones live in fear of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids. This week, the ACLU鈥檚 Maribel Hern谩ndez Rivera and Lee...

This week, the ACLU鈥檚 Chase Strangio joins W. Kamau Bell to discuss the current state of LGBTQIA+ rights across the country. Listen in as they explore how President Donald Trump鈥檚 executive orders have already affected...