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On January 15, disability justice activists celebrated the reintroduction of the Disability Integration Act (DIA). This monumental piece of legislation is an important step forward for the full civil rights of those with disabilities.

America’s 45th presidency of Donald Trump has pulled the ugly scab off the bloody sore of racial capitalism and heteropatriarchy baked into the body politic of the United States.

While plant species around the world will have to cope with warming temperatures and a changing climate, coffee is especially vulnerable to these changes.

There is probably no greater illusion in the field of national security than the idea of credible missile defense.

Access Living’s Coleman says that real change in the police department will require a culture shift. People need to stop “looking at disability as an ‘other’ community, but as a part of our human nature.”

The president poked fun at a devastating massacre and reinforced racist, misogynistic stereotypes.

Martin Luther King Jr. courageously spoke out about the Vietnam War. We must do the same when it comes to this grave injustice of our time.

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A taut, twisty new series from Amazon and the BBC touches on race, class, immigration and terrorism.

The Los Angeles teachers’ strike, organized by the 33,000 strong Unified Teachers Los Angeles, went into its fifth day Jan. 18.