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August 22, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
MAGA Enters Meltdown Mode Over Tim Walz’s Son at the DNC
Guz Walz stole hearts when he teared up and shouted, “That’s my dad!” during his father’s speech.
July 24, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Trump Had an Appalling Idea for His Own Disabled Great-Nephew
Donald Trump’s nephew exposed the former president’s plan in a new book.
April 4, 2024
Liz Jackson
,
Rua Williams
How Disabled People Get Exploited to Build the Technology of War
The cutting-edge products that Big Tech and the Pentagon are developing could be rebuilding an untold number of lives. Instead, they’re being sent to the battlefield to ruin more.
November 12, 2023
Liz Jackson
,
Rua Williams
The Fashion Empire Built on Stolen Ideas
Mindy Scheier built her brand catering to disabled people, but there’s mounting evidence that she’s no ally.
January 3, 2022
Jeremy Klemin
My Parents Are Growing Old With Cerebral Palsy—and Our Health Care System Is Failing Them
Cerebral palsy was long considered a children’s condition. People aging with it face a dearth of research and health insurance that can’t comprehend their disability.
December 5, 2021
Eric Garcia
Bob Dole’s Disability Rights Legacy Marked the End of a Bipartisan Era
The former Republican leader played a key role in the Americans With Disabilities Act but stuck with the GOP as the party turned its back on the law.
October 23, 2021
Jason Linkins
Joe Manchin Is Bad for West Virginians
Throughout the negotiations over Biden’s Build Back Better bill, the senator has unerringly demanded changes that would harm his state’s residents.
July 1, 2021
Laura Weiss
Who Gets Left Behind as We “Return to Normal”?
For people with compromised immune systems, “long Covid,” and other disabilities, the pandemic doesn’t end with vaccination.
June 25, 2021
Jessica M. Goldstein
We All Tried to Control Britney
The pop star is attempting to end her oppressive conservatorship, but it’s not just her father and a judge who robbed her of agency.
June 17, 2021
Monica Potts
Why Don’t We Pay Family Caregivers What They’re Owed?
Millions of people in the United States provide essential care for children, aging parents, or loved ones with disabilities. It shouldn’t be this hard to make it work.
February 12, 2021
Sara Luterman
The Darker Story Just Outside the Lens of
Framing Britney Spears
The documentary and #FreeBritney movement treat the pop star’s conservatorship as strange and exceptional. The truth is much more troubling.
February 2, 2021
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Alexander Zaitchik
The Forever Disease: How Covid-19 Became a Chronic Condition
Thousands of people have been suffering a slew of crazy postinfection syndromes for months—and there’s no end in sight.
July 24, 2020
Jo Livingstone
What the Americans With Disabilities Act Has to Teach Today’s Protesters
The forgotten intersectionality of disabilities activism
February 2, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Welfare Doesn't Destroy Families. Poverty Does.
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