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Mar 24, 2025

Anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’ Marks Continued Fight for Voting Rights

Voting Rights
Selma Jubilee revelers annual trek across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama reminds us why we can never stop advocating for enfranchisement for Black Americans.
Selma Jubilee revelers annual trek across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama reminds us why we can never stop advocating for enfranchisement for Black Americans.
A group of voting rights advocates marching over the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
A group of voting rights advocates marching over the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Mar 21, 2025

Trump's Attempt to Deride NLRB Won't Stop Power of Collective Actions

While the NLRB’s reopening is encouraging, workers must rely on each other to fulfill the promise of collective action.
While the NLRB’s reopening is encouraging, workers must rely on each other to fulfill the promise of collective action.
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) logo.
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) logo.
Mar 21, 2025

BALANCING FANTASY AND REALITY

How one artist uses art as a tool for resistance
How one artist uses art as a tool for resistance
Balancing fantasy and reality
Balancing fantasy and reality
Mar 21, 2025

Machine Surveillance is Being Super-Charged by Large AI Models

Privacy & Technology
Limits and guardrails are vital to protect our privacy and liberty — as well as our sanity — against omnipresent AI surveillance.
Limits and guardrails are vital to protect our privacy and liberty — as well as our sanity — against omnipresent AI surveillance.
Scanning the crowd of people walking at the railway station. Surveillance interface using artificial intelligence and facial recognition.
Scanning the crowd of people walking at the railway station. Surveillance interface using artificial intelligence and facial recognition.
Mar 21, 2025

Can Border Agents Search Your Electronic Devices? It’s Complicated.

Privacy & Technology
We’ve been getting a lot of questions about when border agents can legally conduct searches of travelers’ electronic devices at international airports and other ports of entry. Unfortunately, the answer isn’t...
We’ve been getting a lot of questions about when border agents can legally conduct searches of travelers’ electronic devices at international airports and other ports of entry. Unfortunately, the answer isn’t...
Security Check at the Airport
Security Check at the Airport
Mar 20, 2025

A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia

Free Speech
The government may not threaten funding cuts as a tool to pressure recipients into suppressing First Amendment–protected speech.
The government may not threaten funding cuts as a tool to pressure recipients into suppressing First Amendment–protected speech.
Facade of the Columbia University Library with the ALMA MATER statue in the foreground.
Facade of the Columbia University Library with the ALMA MATER statue in the foreground.