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Do Car-Free Zones Hurt Disabled People? We Asked Experts.

Dani Izzie, a wheelchair user with quadriplegia, tried to take public transit, as she usually does, when visiting Miami in 2022. Heading to catch a...

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Donald Trump Wants to End Daylight Saving. That May Not Be a Bad Idea.

Annoyed with time changes in the fall and spring? So is President-elect Donald Trump. On Friday, Trump posted on Truth Social that the “Republican...

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Florida Made It Easier to Involuntarily Commit People. A New Lawsuit Says It’s Violating the Law.

On Wednesday, the nonprofit organization Disability Rights Florida sued the Florida Department of Children and Families, claiming that the state...

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Companies Can Pay Disabled People Below Minimum Wage. The Department of Labor Wants to Change That.

A worker at an ice cream shop in Kansas that hires people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and pays them more than minimum wage....

03.12.2024 10

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Congress Has One Month to Save a Key Medicare Benefit

Mother Jones illustration; Getty When Gwen Williams’ mother was dying, taking her to an in-person appointment to get more medicine seemed...

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Even Dr. Oz Can’t Break Medicare

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...

22.11.2024 30

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Trump’s Nephew Tells Democrats: Don’t Quit Now

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...

15.11.2024 10

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Study: Equal Pay For Disabled Workers Creates, Not Costs, Jobs

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,...

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What It’s Like to Be a Poll Worker With a Disability

Mother Jones illustration; Photo courtesy of Alison Kukla It can be challenging to manage the symptoms of a disability or chronic illness during a...

11.11.2024 10

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It Shouldn’t Be This Hard to Vote When You’re Disabled

A disabled voter receiving assistance in voting at an accessible voting machine from an election volunteer. Michael Ho Wai Lee/SOPA/Zuma Disabled...

09.11.2024 10

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Long Lines, Closed Polls, and Water Bans—But Disabled Voters Are Turning Out

People wait in line to vote in the 2024 Presidential Election in Washington DC. Aaron Schwartz/SIPA USA/AP In the days and weeks after the 2020...

06.11.2024 10

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Which Vaccines Will RFK Jr. Come For?

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. speaks at the 2024 Libertarian National Convention. Kevin Dietsch/Getty If Donald Trump becomes president again, it looks...

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Trump’s Surgeon General: Please Don’t Let RFK Jr. “Go Wild on Health”

Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy at a at a Turning Point Action campaign rally on October 23. Anna Moneymaker/AP At a Sunday campaign rally,...

29.10.2024 30

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How Donald Trump Caused a Shortage of Lupus Medication

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...

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Jimmy Carter Voted Thanks to the GOP’s Least Favorite Law

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...

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California’s Rent Control Ban Hits Disabled Tenants Hardest

Mother Jones; Getty; David McNew/Getty California’s statewide rent control law , the Costa-Hawkins Act, has been contentious since it was signed...

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Tens of Thousands of People Are Dying on the Disability Wait List

Democratic nominee Kamala Harris speaks during a Univision town hall on October 10, 2024. Jacquelyn Martin/AP Three years ago, after developing...

11.10.2024 10

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Yes, You Can Fight for Reproductive Rights From Home

Mother Jones illustration; Getty For some chronically ill and disabled people, the revolution will start from their rooms—or even from bed. Since...

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Expert: Harris’ Home Care Plan Would Be a Game-Changer

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...

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Idaho State Senator Tells Native American Candidate To “Go Back Where You Came From”

Idaho Sen. Dan Foreman. Otto Kitsinger/AP Thinking before you speak publicly is an important skill. Idaho State Sen. Dan Foreman, a conservative...

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The Hawaii Senator Who Faced Down Racism and Ableism—And Killed Nazis

Sen. Daniel Inouye in 1964, during his first term in the Senate. Wally McNamee/Corbis/Getty Daniel Inouye wanted to serve the United States from a...

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Donald Trump Called Kamala Harris “Mentally Disabled”

Frmer President Donald Trump speaks during a rally, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, in Prairie du Chien, Wis. Charlie Neibergall/AP Former President...

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Rep. Ilhan Omar to Introduce Major Long Covid Bill

Mother Jones illustration; Rod Lamkey/CNP/Zuma On Friday, Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) will introduce a potentially groundbreaking piece of...

27.09.2024 10

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Federal Court Blocks Part of Alabama Voter Suppression Law

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...

25.09.2024 10

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Federal Investigation: Disabled People Are Five Times More Likely to Experience Domestic Violence

Getty Images Disabled people are five times more likely to experience domestic violence than non-disabled people, and make up a third of its...

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Report: America’s Overdose Deaths Are Falling

Nalaxone, better known by its brand name Narcan, can reverse opioid overdoes. Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe/Getty Drug overdose deaths have...

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Harris Would Ban Paying Disabled Workers Less Than Minimum Wage—Except in Prison

Vice President Kamala Harris at a rally in North Carolina. Josh Brown/Zuma Earlier this month, Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign dropped an...

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After a Decade, Donald Trump’s Health Care Plan Still in “Concept” Phase

Mother Jones illustration; Win McNamee/Getty Former President Donald Trump has “concepts of a plan” to replace the Affordable Care Act, also...

11.09.2024 10

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Free Rein and No Guidance: Long Island’s Cop-Enforced Mask Ban Isn’t Going Great

Police stand outside a pro-Palestinian rally in New York in May 2024. Jimin Kim/ZUMA When New York’s Nassau County signed the first county-level...

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Yes, Trump’s Debate Mic Should Be Muted—But Not For the Reason You Think

On September 10, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump will debate each other for the first time. Amid weeks of contention...

31.08.2024 10

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The Covid Vaccine Just Got a Lot More Expensive—If You’re Uninsured

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...

31.08.2024 10

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The Two States Where the GOP Is Taking on Ableist Language

Mother Jones illustration; Getty Nevada State Sen. Robin Titus—at the time a member of its state House—received an email from a speech...

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A Long Island County Banned Masks, and Disabled People Are Suing

Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto/Getty Last week, Nassau County, on New York’s Long Island, became the first county in the US to ban the public wearing of...

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Guess Who’s Being Weird to Tim Walz’s Son

Gus Walz, son of vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, with his mother, Gwen, during the Democratic National Convention. Brynn...

22.08.2024 10

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Project 2025 Would Make Workplace Discrimination a Lot Easier

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...

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The War on Drug Prices Is Just Getting Started

Prescription drugs at a Manhattan pharmacy in July. Spencer Platt/Getty On Thursday, the Biden administration announced that it had negotiated down...

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How Extreme Heat Burns Chronically Ill Workers

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...

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Disability Advocates Fear New York Will Gut a Key Home Care Program

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...

13.08.2024 10

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Tim Walz Is Leading the Way on Long Covid Funding

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...

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Rideshare to Vote? Not So Easy When You’re Disabled.

Richard Vogel/AP In 2020, Sharon Giovinazzo, who is blind as a complication of multiple sclerosis, wanted to vote independently—and in person....

02.08.2024 10

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What It’s Like to Run for Office as a Young, Blind Person

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...

30.07.2024 10

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Trump Said Some Disabled People “Should Just Die,” According to His Nephew

Former President Donald Trump at the 2024 Republican National Convention. Annabelle Gordon/CNP/Zuma When his uncle Donald became president, Fred...

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The Racist, Xenophobic History of “Excited Delirium”

Mother Jones; Steven Freeman; Duke University Press When police kill someone, a medical examiner lists their cause of death—which plays a...

23.07.2024 10

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Federal Court Strikes Down Restrictions on Ohio Law that Limited Voters with Disabilities

Sholten Singer/The Herald-Dispatch/AP On Monday, a federal court struck down restrictions on an Ohio law that made it a felony for a non-family...

23.07.2024 10

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Biden Dialed Back Covid Safety—Then Got It

President Joe Biden, not wearing a mask, days before testing positive for Covid-19. Susan Walsh/AP President Joe Biden recently got Covid-19 for a...

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Project 2025 Is Twisting Disability Rights Law to Attack Abortion

Gina M Randazzo/Zuma Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s guidebook for Republican control of the presidency and Congress, is, unsurprisingly,...

11.07.2024 10

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States Could Help Disabled People Survive Climate Change—By Involving Them

Mother Jones; Getty; Preillumination Seth During the 1960s, disability activists fought for the right to live independently, rather than in...

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How the War in Gaza Makes Life Nearly Impossible for Disabled People

Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Last December, UNICEF reported that two and a half months into Israel’s offensive in Gaza, at least a thousand children lost...

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Campaign Rallies Are Getting Dangerously Hot. Literally.

Steve Helber/AP It’s a hot political summer, literally. Both Republican and Democratic politicians have been holding rallies and other political...

02.07.2024 20

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DOJ: State of Alaska Discriminates Against Voters with Disabilities

Residents in Anchorage, Alaska wait to vote. Mark Thiessen/AP On Monday, the US Department of Justice sent a letter to Alaska’s director of...

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