Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. During the 1960s, disability activists fought for the right to live independently, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steven covers accessibility and assistive technologies. Kyle Walker didn’t expect his life’s work to involve disabled people.

Home-based working in the UK has been declining since the peak of the COVID pandemic—from 49% of the working population at its height to around 14% now. While hybrid working is still increasing in ...

In 2025, the UN released its sixth progress report, reflecting on how far the system has come and where acceleration is needed. Every year on December 3rd, the world marks the International Day of ...

The prevailing public perception is that everything people with disability do is a challenge. Sometimes, that is true. In those times, we may ask or say “yes” to a kind and respectful offer of ...

If you give any leader the opportunity to increase their talent pool of potential employees by 15 percent—with all the new hires belonging to an underrepresented minority—they’d jump at the chance, ...

AstroAccess has one mission; to bring disabled astronauts to outer space. In this handout photograph from NASA, Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi waves August 1, 2005 at a ...