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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...
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...
On Wednesday, the nonprofit organization Disability Rights Florida sued the Florida Department of Children and Families, claiming that the state...
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...
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,...
Mother Jones illustration; Photo courtesy of Alison Kukla It can be challenging to manage the symptoms of a disability or chronic illness during a...
A disabled voter receiving assistance in voting at an accessible voting machine from an election volunteer. Michael Ho Wai Lee/SOPA/Zuma Disabled...
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...
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. speaks at the 2024 Libertarian National Convention. Kevin Dietsch/Getty If Donald Trump becomes president again, it looks...
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,...
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...
Democratic nominee Kamala Harris speaks during a Univision town hall on October 10, 2024. Jacquelyn Martin/AP Three years ago, after developing...
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...
Idaho Sen. Dan Foreman. Otto Kitsinger/AP Thinking before you speak publicly is an important skill. Idaho State Sen. Dan Foreman, a conservative...
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...
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...
Vice President Kamala Harris at a rally in North Carolina. Josh Brown/Zuma Earlier this month, Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign dropped an...
Mother Jones illustration; Win McNamee/Getty Former President Donald Trump has “concepts of a plan” to replace the Affordable Care Act, also...
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...
On September 10, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump will debate each other for the first time. Amid weeks of contention...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Former President Donald Trump at the 2024 Republican National Convention. Annabelle Gordon/CNP/Zuma When his uncle Donald became president, Fred...
Mother Jones; Steven Freeman; Duke University Press When police kill someone, a medical examiner lists their cause of death—which plays a...
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...
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...
Gina M Randazzo/Zuma Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s guidebook for Republican control of the presidency and Congress, is, unsurprisingly,...
Mother Jones; Getty; Preillumination Seth During the 1960s, disability activists fought for the right to live independently, rather than in...
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...
Steve Helber/AP It’s a hot political summer, literally. Both Republican and Democratic politicians have been holding rallies and other political...
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...