AFP News Agency
VOICED: Sweden's Pirate Party aims for kingmaker spot
VOICED: Sweden's Pirate Party aims for kingmaker spot
Bloomberg
Critics of USA Freedom Act Are Ill-Informed: Stone
Nov. 19 -- Geoffrey Stone, co-author of the White House Report on the NSA, discusses the merits of the USA Freedom Act with Bloomberg's Olivia Sterns at the CME's Global Financial Leadership Conference in Naples, Florida. (Source:...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN: Sweden's Pirate Party aims for kingmaker spot
CLEAN: Sweden's Pirate Party aims for kingmaker spot
Curated Video
Activists Worry About Future For Afghan Women Under Taliban Rule
When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001, many civil liberties were limited and women were mostly confined to their homes.
Curated Video
House approves bill to set rules for the government's eavesdropping
1. Wide of House floor just before the vote read-out
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mike Ross, US Representative, Democrat, Arkansas:++PARTLY OVERLAID WITH HOUSE FLOOR++
"On this vote, the yays are 213, the nays are 197. With one answering,...
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Dr. Kofi Busia (would later become Prime Minister of Ghana) gives a speech at the Society for Individual Freedom about the struggle against tyranny in Africa .
1. SOUNDBITE (English) cu Busia delivering a speech saying that there are...
Curated Video
Ryan: Republican Party supports stop gap spending bill
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan says the House plans on passing a spending bill that would keep the government open for six more weeks and fund the military for a full-year.
House Republican leaders have come out with a...
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Ryan: GOP Supports Stopgap Spending Bill
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan says the House plans on passing a spending bill that would keep the government open for six more weeks and fund the military for a full-year.
House Republican leaders have come out with a...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Founding Principles: Civil Liberties
Explore how civil liberties are protected under the Bill of Rights. Through a study of foundational documents like the Constitution and key Supreme Court cases like Barron v. Baltimore, New York Times v. The United States, and Roe v....
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Government and Politics: Civil Rights and Liberties
In this episode, we review civil rights and civil liberties. Often these terms are used interchangeably, but they are very different. Our civil liberties, contained in the Bill of Rights, once only protected us from the federal...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Affirmative Action
This video lesson from Khan Academy discusses affirmative action. This lesson is intended for students taking high school or college level American Government and Civics courses, including the AP Government course.
History Link
History Link: Gordon Hirabayashi
Biography of Gordon Hirabayashi, who defied the U.S. government's curfew and evacuation orders for Japanese and Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us Supreme Court Justice Ruth B Ginsburg: Civil Liberties, Privacy
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg discusses the opinion she's written that has done the most to advance civil liberties. [5:45]