A new bill would prohibit discrimination based on a parent's disabilities. Some disability rights advocates are uniting behind an anti-discrimination bill. Senate Bill 26 would preent disabled parents ...

Changes to Disney's disability program is sparking outrage, with fans calling the eligibility too restrictive.

When Ari Ne’eman heard Robert F. Kennedy Jr. call autism an “epidemic” that “destroys families,” Ne’eman felt like he had stepped into a time machine — heading in the wrong direction. It was during an ...

A protester holds a sign in support of Medicaid at an April rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court. A House GOP proposal would cut Medicaid payments to Minnesota and other states that provide healthcare ...

President Donald Trump proposed cutting the system’s federal funding from $148 million to $69 million for fiscal year 2026, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. For decades, American hospitals have been subject to Section 504 of the ...

Black history and disabled history are more aligned than people realize, with many Black icons experiencing some form of disability. Abolitionist and women’s rights activist Sojourner Truth had a ...

WASHINGTON – Disability rights advocates breathed a sigh of relief now that the Supreme Court has made it easier for students with disabilities to sue schools for damages. Not only did all the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Keely founded Making Space, closing the disability employment gap. “An attack on the Department of Education is an attack on ...

Is an intellectual disability a condition, or a number on an IQ test? Here's why an Alabama death penalty case at the Supreme ...

When the Americans With Disabilities Act was signed into law on this day in July 1990, my parents didn’t yet know how much the landmark civil rights law would soon shape my life — and theirs. I was ...

Having a disability should never result in a person being denied freedom. Yet across Latin America, thousands of people with disabilities are still forcibly institutionalized, often from a young age, ...