‘If We Lose Our Health Care, We Will Begin to Die’ ‘If We Lose Our Health Care, We Will Begin to Die’
Disability activists are at the forefront of direct action against Trump.
Jan 10, 2018 / Feature / Zoë Carpenter
Republicans Are Using Fear of Eugenics to Attack Reproductive Rights Republicans Are Using Fear of Eugenics to Attack Reproductive Rights
Cute kids with Down syndrome, like my son, should never be an excuse to deny access to an abortion.
Jan 4, 2018 / David M. Perry
States of Neglect: Oklahoma, Iowa, and Maine Are Failing Disabled Residents States of Neglect: Oklahoma, Iowa, and Maine Are Failing Disabled Residents
Individuals with disabilities helped saved Medicaid at the federal level. Now states are abandoning them.
Nov 14, 2017 / David M. Perry
In the Fight to Save Health Care, the Heroes Ride on Wheelchairs—and Wear Pink In the Fight to Save Health Care, the Heroes Ride on Wheelchairs—and Wear Pink
Once again, women, people with disabilities, queer people, and people of color are at the forefront of the struggle to save this country from itself.
Oct 23, 2017 / Jennifer Flynn
4 Disabled People Dead in Another Week of Police Brutality 4 Disabled People Dead in Another Week of Police Brutality
Police don’t need better training; they need to stop treating noncompliance as justification for violence.
Sep 22, 2017 / David M. Perry
My Body, My Choice: Why the Principle of Bodily Autonomy Can Unite the Left My Body, My Choice: Why the Principle of Bodily Autonomy Can Unite the Left
From disability rights to Black Lives Matter to the environmental movement, bodily autonomy can bring together disparate strands of the American left.
Sep 13, 2017 / David M. Perry
Support People With Disabilities Facing Harvey Support People With Disabilities Facing Harvey
You can also take action to defend DACA and join a march to confront white supremacy.
Aug 29, 2017 / NationAction
We’re Failing Our Test Run for the Age of CRISPR We’re Failing Our Test Run for the Age of CRISPR
We’re on the cusp of being able to genetically shape our offspring, but without accurately informing would-be parents, genetic diversity will become a code for poverty.
Aug 29, 2017 / David M. Perry
Disability-Rights Activists Are the Real Heroes of the Health-Care Fight Disability-Rights Activists Are the Real Heroes of the Health-Care Fight
They put their bodies on the line to save Medicaid and Obamacare.
Jul 28, 2017 / John Nichols
Russia v. Health Care (and Everything Else) Russia v. Health Care (and Everything Else)
Vying for the media’s attention.
Jul 28, 2017 / Leslie Savan