Politics

An image of Zohran Mamdani, in a suit, head on his hand, in an empty dining room

What Exactly is Zohran Mamdani’s Disability Platform?

Kara McCurdy Prior to New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York City’s Democratic primary, there were questions...

November 3, 2025

A group of Caucasian advisory members and the night mayor gathered together for a group photo for a night out.

Disabled to the Front: Nashville’s Punk Professor Redefines Access and Joy

Dr. Cynthia George — better known around Nashville’s punk scene as Dr. CynCorrigible — is impossible to miss....

By Sonali Gupta

November 5, 2025

An image of the White House, fountain in front in full view. There are a few clouds above in a blue sky

Trump nixes special education agency, lays off staff amid shutdown

Aaron Kittredge via Pexels Donald Trump’s onslaught of cuts to federal services is now being directed at...

October 13, 2025

A newspaper clipping of a headline stating that Joseph Clifton Smith was sentenced to the death penalty in connection with a 1997 murder. The article includes a photo of Smith from the time.

Alabama wants to execute a man with intellectual disabilities. That’s unconstitutional, legal advocates say

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of Hamm v. Joseph Clifton Smith. Smith,...

By R.L. Nave

October 8, 2025

Ashley Castillo, a Black Afro-Latina journalist, stands in a pink shirt and jeans. She is holding a TV microphone and is smiling. Behind her is a street scene that includes people and trees

How Disabled Journalists Work: Ashley Castillo

Monday Before my tasks, I have a morning routine. I get ready, eat breakfast,...

By Ashley Castillo

September 17, 2025

Climate

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. standing at a podium, holding a microphone in front of a church

Why RFK Jr. canceled research into environmental links to autism — after vowing to find them

RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That.|...

By Sharon Lerner, ProPublica

September 4, 2025

From ‘Wellness Farms’ to Budget Cuts, How RFK Jr.’s Misguided Policies Threaten Disabled People

In his short time as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s false claims about...

By Sonali Gupta

August 27, 2025

Director Reid Davenport, a white man with curly, short brown hair and glasses, and Producer Colleen Cassingham, a white woman with a brown bob wearing an orange jumpsuit, laugh together as they look toward a computer screen, which is just out of the shot. In the background, is an apartment with a full length mirror and an array of books on a shelf.

Life After: New film explores life before, during and after the right-to-die movement

Filmmaker Reid Davenport delves deep and goes beyond political debates over Medical Assistance in Dying, or MAiD, legislation in the U.S. and Canada

August 14, 2025

The Problem with Gavin Newsom’s CARE Courts

The Democratic governor has championed a system to address mental health and homelessness but Disabled Californians fear it could return us to the dark days of widespread institutionalization

August 21, 2025

Will Andrew Cuomo’s Nursing Home Scandal Come Back to Haunt Him?

Thousands died in New York City nursing homes following then-Gov. Cuomo's controversial COVID-era mandate. As the Democratic mayoral primary approaches, disabled people urge fellow New Yorkers to do one simple thing: Remember.