Research & Publications

This issue of ACLU Magazine includes features on the ACLU’s Firewall for Freedom playbooks comprising 40+ policy proposals for state and local actors to defend civil rights and civil liberties during a second Trump administration; the ACLU’s National Advocacy Institute, a summer program that prepares youth activists to challenge injustices; and the Freedom to Be campaign, which spotlights the joyful stories of transgender people and their families. The issue also highlights how the ACLU played a major part in securing reproductive rights in Montana, Arizona, and Missouri; how an ACLU of Idaho advocacy fellow is showing up for LGBTQ people in their state; how a Mississippi student is challenging her school's sexist dress code; and much more. ISSN (online): 2640-3579 To download a more print-friendly spreads layout, click here.

This issue of ACLU Magazine focuses on the ACLU’s voting rights and election protection work across the country as well as our ongoing fight for abortion rights, free speech, immigrants’ rights, and transgender justice. There are features on the ACLU of Pennsylvania’s legal and advocacy efforts to ensure free and fair elections; litigation against the state of Alabama to preserve the existence of birth centers in communities without abortion access; and an ACLU guide to students’ rights—from protest to academic freedom. The issue also highlights the ACLU’s Freedom to Be campaign, Nebraska activist Jason Witmer, the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, and more. ISSN (online): 2640-3579 To download a more print-friendly spreads layout, click here.

This issue of ACLU Magazine covers recent litigation efforts for voting rights, free speech, and racial justice as well as historic electoral victories for reproductive freedom. There are features on the ACLU’s wave of redistricting cases across the South after Allen v. Milligan, the decade-long fight to secure federal protections for pregnant workers, and ongoing advocacy to ensure that advances in artificial intelligence don’t deepen racial inequities in public life. The issue also spotlights the ACLU of Alaska’s “DEcarcerated” art exhibition, border activist Fernie Quiroz, Reynolds v. Sims, and more. ISSN (online): 2640-3579 To download a more print-friendly spreads layout, click here.

The stories in the Fall 2023 issue of ACLU Magazine cover the ACLU’s work to expand voter access, defend abortion rights, and challenge housing discrimination and racist jury bans. There are feature stories on the next generation of social justice advocates, the ACLU of Louisiana's Justice Lab, and how the ACLU of Massachusetts and its partners jumped into action when immigrant families were sent to Martha's Vineyard from Texas as part of a political stunt. The issue also spotlights the ACLU's Drag Defense Fund, criminal law activist Marq Mitchell, Tinker v. Des Moines, and more. ISSN (online): 2640-3579 To download a more print-friendly spreads layout, click here.

The spring 2023 issue of ACLU Magazine covers state litigation and advocacy efforts for education equity, trans justice, bail reform, abortion access, and more. There are stories that celebrate major victories, including Michigan's groundbreaking reproductive freedom ballot measure and Shelby County's new bail system, and others that detail ongoing fights for students of color in California and transgender people in Iowa. This issue also features a critical Alabama redistricting case, the civil rights legend Leona Tate, a Texas teen who started a banned book club, and a reflection on Loving v. Virginia. ISSN (online): 2640-3579 To download a more print-friendly spreads layout, click here.

In the lead-up to the midterm elections, the Fall 2022 issue of ACLU Magazine highlights a few of the many people in the trenches protecting access to the ballot and fortifying local election infrastructure in the battleground states of Michigan, Ohio, and Georgia. The magazine covers the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe and what it means for abortion access in hostile states. It also includes stories about defending protesters’ rights, the ACLU of Northern California’s efforts to stop sheriffs from secretly transferring immigrants from local jails to ICE, and the fight against a deluge of classroom censorship bills in Oklahoma, Idaho, and beyond. To download a more print-friendly spreads layout, click here.