Constitutional Law

Feds Investigate Miami-Dade Jails

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Amendment 2: Two Bishops, Two Views

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Election Night: Save Dade's Amendment 2 Party

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Amazing, Someone is Actually Protesting The Crist Wedding

Riptide works on a self imposed quota system, and in order to meet our goals we have to make at least one "Charlie Crist is gay" joke a week. So it was only natural when reporting on Charlie Crist's upcoming nuptials to lay it on thick, especially while we were still fuming from the travesty of Amen ... More >>

Tie Me Up! Tone Me Down!

Lewd magazine publisher Dugent experiences the ultimate masochistic thrill - a spanking from its neighbors in prim and proper Coral Gables

Stonewalled

FIU's first gay-rights group finds disciples of Anita Bryant alive and well on campus

Body Count Down

But the album's sales are up, up, up. No wonder so many more cops are dying now.

Timoney Loses, Freedom Wins, Taxpayers Pay

Miami Police Chief John Timoney screwed up, and we taxpayers are just gonna keep paying and paying.Back in November 2003, the City of Miami shut down some protests against a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) meeting being held here. The cops beat some protesters and illegally jailed others. Jus ... More >>

Carmen (Among Others) vs. Carmen (Among Others)

Hialeah residents Omar and Carmen Corzo sue Councilwoman Carmen Caldwell (among others) for violating their civil rights

God Complex

The M Ensemble aims at a moving bio and misses the mark.

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death

When the price of freedom borders on insane

Remember Old Jim Crow

When the price of freedom borders on insane

Still Dreaming

Celebrate MLK Day by candlelight

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High & Mighty

What do you do when some morons criticize you in a news report? If you're the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, the top federal cop, the answer is easy: You blackball the news reporter

BEST OUTDOOR ART

Greenpeace Human Art Protest

Letters from the Issue of December 11, 2003

Greenpeace Human Art Protest

On Edge

A local documentary film festival takes on topics not for the timid

Barred for Life

The process for restoring the civil rights of felons in Florida works perfectly -- if not restoring their rights is the goal

The Will Adams Embargo

The sad saga of how the feds hounded a senior citizen over, what else, Cuba

Pro-Gay Pressure?

Divisions from within: Allies skirmish over free speech

Letters from the Issue of August 29, 2002

One cop would rather resign than compromise his integrity

Shake

If it ain't your party, you better fight for your rights

Fair Weather Freedom Fighters

The Latin Grammys got the headlines, but brave and bruised theater director Alberto Sarraín got the honors

Frank Talk About Free Speech

Attorney Victor Diaz chats up the ACLU's Howard Simon

Riptide

So that's why it's called copy!

Speak Your Mind, Lose Your Job

So that's why it's called copy!

Letters

So that's why it's called copy!

A Historic Dip

Witnesses to the segregated history of Virginia Beach tell a sorry but inspiring tale

Saviors of Virginia Key

Witnesses to the segregated history of Virginia Beach tell a sorry but inspiring tale

Night & Day

February 4 - 10, 1999

A Crash Course in Tolerance

Rosie Heffernan's students are no dummies when it comes to the U.S. Constitution -- as their parents are learning

Free to Speak Her Mind

Rosie Heffernan's students are no dummies when it comes to the U.S. Constitution -- as their parents are learning

Freedom of Speech in Handcuffs

Miami police use an obsolete law to arrest two union activists. Too bad they didn't know the ordinance was being taken out of the code.

Lard Corps

Local black leaders are wondering why the U.S. Justice Department called them together to chew the fat about Guantanamo

Letters

Local black leaders are wondering why the U.S. Justice Department called them together to chew the fat about Guantanamo

Chiles Pornography

Hear ye! Hear ye! The state gets into a righteous - dare we say fundamentalist? - huff

Letters

Hear ye! Hear ye! The state gets into a righteous - dare we say fundamentalist? - huff

Feds Bust Dade Correctional Institute Guards on Civil Rights Violations

​No matter how cynical you've grown about the American justice system -- let's say, from watching a few too many episodes of The Wire -- there are still stories coming out of Miami's prison system that will make your jaw drop. Today, through a federal indictment, comes a tale of casual civil right ... More >>

MIFF: Interview with Brigitte Berman, Director of Hugh Hefner

PRNewsFoto/Playboy Enterprises, Inc.​Hugh Hefner is old. He's so old that Hollywood types have started projects based on his legacy. There are the rumors (tweeted by Hefner himself) that Diablo Cody is writing a movie about him. And one of the documentaries at this year's Miami Film Festival is Hu ... More >>

Koran Burning Cancelled, Pastor Claims Deal with Park51 Imam

Pastor Terry Jones​The tiny Gainesville, Florida, Dove World Outreach Center ignited an international controversy when they announced plans to burn Korans on the ninth anniversary of September 11. The story stirred the same strong feelings surrounding a planned Muslim community center near Ground ... More >>

Jim Morrison Pardon Coming This Morning, But Local Rockers Ask Crist Not To Stop There (Update: It's Official)

No longer a suspected dong-dangler.​At last, our long national nightmare is over: the long deceased Jim Morrison will no longer have a record for drunkenly dangling his dong at a Miami concert. But while Morrison's pardon -- which should be made official at 9 a.m. -- closes a sordid footnote in ro ... More >>

Culture of cruelty: Feds bury Border Patrol abuses of immigrants

No longer a suspected dong-dangler.​At last, our long national nightmare is over: the long deceased Jim Morrison will no longer have a record for drunkenly dangling his dong at a Miami concert. But while Morrison's pardon -- which should be made official at 9 a.m. -- closes a sordid footnote in ro ... More >>

Florida Judge Worried Obama Might Make Us All Buy Broccoli

via​A federal judge today began hearing arguments in outgoing Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum's lawsuit against the Federal Government, which alleges that forcing citizens to buy health insurance is unconstitutional. The trial is expected to be an in-depth, mature and scholarly proceeding. ... More >>

ACLU Chief Howard Simon Recalls MLK and Bloody Sunday

Photo by Jacob KatelHoward Simon​American Civil Liberties executive director Howard Simon took part in the last century's most significant freedom march with Dr. Martin Luther King. Then he was part of lawsuits that indicated our own government might have played a role in one of the civil rights m ... More >>

Marco Rubio Really Admires Dead Racist Jesse Helms

​Asked to name a senator he'd like to pattern his own career after, Marco Rubio told the National Review that he really admires Jesse Helms. Yes, Helms, the late North Carolina Republican senator with notorious and well-documented racist and homophobic views. He once called the landmark Civil Righ ... More >>

Florida Senate Passes First Round of Anti-Abortion Bills

​The major issue of the 2010 election was the economy, and Florida voters chose to further entrench Republican power in Tallahassee. Of course, you can't put a bunch of Republicans in a legislative chamber and not expect them to pass a bunch of anti-abortion, anti-woman legislation. It's just what ... More >>

Bill Clinton Calls Rick Scott's Felon Disfranchisement Rules Racist and Politically Motivated

Not very many people in Florida like Governor Rick Scott, so we really didn't expect former democratic President Bill Clinton to like the guy much either. While speaking at a conference for young progressive activists in D.C. today, Clinton called out Scott's effort to strip voting rights from convi ... More >>

Faith Ringgold's 1960s paintings at Miami Art Museum through January 1

Not very many people in Florida like Governor Rick Scott, so we really didn't expect former democratic President Bill Clinton to like the guy much either. While speaking at a conference for young progressive activists in D.C. today, Clinton called out Scott's effort to strip voting rights from convi ... More >>