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November 15, 2022
Was This Professor Fired for Having Tourette Syndrome?
We want to ensure harassment-free climates in schools and workplaces, and we want to protect the rights of people with disabilities. What happens when these imperatives collide?
Barry Yeoman
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September 9, 2022
Ending Free Covid Tests, US Policy Is Now “You Do You”
The Biden administration’s “soft closing” to the pandemic means a hard landing for the un- and underinsured.
Martha Lincoln and Anne N. Sosin
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September 1, 2022
Meet Sandy Morris, the ALS Heroine Hardly Anybody Knows
Anthony Fauci understood that making people like Sandy who are living with a disease part of the research process leads to better science. But the rest of the NIH still hasn’t gotten the message.
Gregg Gonsalves
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August 26, 2022
Rationing of Medical Equipment Is Costing Disabled People Their Lives
With the government refusing to make medicine and medical equipment accessible, sick, and disabled people have to rely on each other for support.
Nolan Trowe
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April 29, 2022
The Supreme Court Has Just Invented a New Way to Harass Vulnerable People
In a landmark ruling, the six conservatives ruled to limit people’s ability to recover damages after they’ve faced discrimination—thus making it easier to discriminate.
Elie Mystal
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April 20, 2022
Wheelchair Users Block the Seoul Subway as the Right Takes Power
The hostility of the conservative party has pushed the disability-rights movement to the center of a larger fight for minority groups in South Korea.
Lee Hyun Choi
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April 11, 2022
Can Biden Minimize the Cruelty of the Public Charge Rule?
Immigrants can put their residency status at risk by receiving government benefits. Could the president change this without altering the law?
David M. Perry
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December 8, 2021
The Right’s Bad-Faith Argument About Bodily Autonomy
Justice Amy Coney Barrett wants to catch us in a trap where either we concede the state’s right to coerce reproduction or we abandon the state’s right to mandate vaccines.
David M. Perry
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October 25, 2021
Disabled and Abandoned in New York State Prisons
Incarcerated people are being disciplined because their disability makes it impossible to comply with prison rules.
Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
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August 23, 2021
Are Bans Against School Mask Mandates Against the Law?
The Biden administration may use disability rights legislation to require masks in schools.
David M. Perry