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In August 1981, then-President Ronald Reagan signed a bill into law that allowed the development of state-level programs to help disabled people live...
On Wednesday, an Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed into a commercial American Airlines flight as it was in the process of landing at Ronald Reagan...
On Monday, moments before Donald Trump’s inauguration, President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of American Indian Movement activist Leonard...
On January 8, after multiple wildfires erupted in Los Angeles, a father who was an amputee, and his son, who had cerebral palsy—both wheelchair...
In emergency updates, American Sign Language interpreters are crucial to the safety of Deaf people—close to a million of whom live in the Los...
Los Angeles has been hit with its worst-ever wildfires, which continue to blaze, already claiming at least ten lives and devastating air...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau building in Washington, DC. Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Zuma The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized...
Mother Jones illustration; Photo by Ariel Majewski Elon Musk’s calls for a so-called “efficient” US government—including wanting to end the already...
Beyza Durmuş Dani Izzie, a wheelchair user with quadriplegia, tried to take public transit, as she usually does, when visiting Miami in 2022....
President-elect Donald Trump looks at his watch during a campaign speech in June 2016. Chris O'Meara/AP Annoyed with time changes in the fall and...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Mother Jones illustration; Paul Hennessy/ SOPA/Sipa USA/AP On Wednesday, the nonprofit organization Disability Rights...
A worker at an ice cream shop in Kansas that hires people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and pays them more than minimum wage....
Mother Jones illustration; Getty When Gwen Williams’ mother was dying, taking her to an in-person appointment to get more medicine seemed...
Dr. Mehmet Oz at a rally during his 2022 Senate campaign. Jacqueline Larma/AP Some 15 percent of Americans are enrolled in Medicare Part D, which...
Mother Jones illustration; Niall Carson/PA Wire/Zuma; Courtesy Fred Trump Donald Trump’s nephew Fred Trump III doesn’t expect to be invited to his...
Workers advocate a minimum wage rise at a 2022 rally in New York. Noam Galai/Getty When the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed into law in 1938,...
A disabled voter receiving assistance in voting at an accessible voting machine from an election volunteer. Michael Ho Wai Lee/SOPA/Zuma Disabled...
Donald Trump with Anthony Fauci in April 2020 Mother Jones; Alex Wong/Getty Abby Mahler blames Donald Trump and Elon Musk for the challenges faced...
Carter in 2018. Dennis Van Tine/STAR MAX/AP This week, soon after his 100th birthday, former President Jimmy Carter was able to vote in his home...
Mother Jones; Getty; David McNew/Getty California’s statewide rent control law , the Costa-Hawkins Act, has been contentious since it was signed...
Mother Jones illustration; Getty For some chronically ill and disabled people, the revolution will start from their rooms—or even from bed. Since...
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a rally in Flint, Michigan, on October 4, 2024. Andrew Roth/Sipa USA/AP On Tuesday, Vice President Kamala...
Frmer President Donald Trump speaks during a rally, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, in Prairie du Chien, Wis. Charlie Neibergall/AP Former President...
Mother Jones illustration; Rod Lamkey/CNP/Zuma On Friday, Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) will introduce a potentially groundbreaking piece of...
Matt Slocum/AP On Tuesday, US District Judge R. David Proctor ruled in an injunction that part of Alabama’s voter suppression law SB1—state...
Getty Images Disabled people are five times more likely to experience domestic violence than non-disabled people, and make up a third of its...
Nalaxone, better known by its brand name Narcan, can reverse opioid overdoes. Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe/Getty Drug overdose deaths have been...
Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service/Getty All but three US states have very high or high levels of Covid-19 in their sewage right...
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Nevada State Sen. Robin Titus—at the time a member of its state House—received an email from a speech pathologist...
Gus Walz, son of vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, with his mother, Gwen, during the Democratic National Convention. Brynn...
A podium at a DNC press conference in July 2024. Jim Vondruska/Getty Only some 40 percent of disabled people are employed. But even that low figure...
Prescription drugs at a Manhattan pharmacy in July. Spencer Platt/Getty On Thursday, the Biden administration announced that it had negotiated down...
Justin Sullivan/Getty When a man with painful cystic acne came to dermatologist Eva Rawlings Parker for help in a Nashville clinic, she couldn’t...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul at a press conference. Sipa USA/AP In late April, New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers finalized a...
Glen Stubbe/Minneapolis Star Tribune-TNS/Zuma There are more than 400,000 people with Long Covid in Minnesota—the home state of Democratic vice...
Richard Vogel/AP In 2020, Sharon Giovinazzo, who is blind as a complication of multiple sclerosis, wanted to vote independently—and in person. She...
Mother Jones illustration; Courtesy Madeline Ryan Smith If not for her partner driving her, Madeline Ryan Smith isn’t sure how she’d be able to...