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This is the Voting Rights Restoration project. People with disabilities want to vote! They need more and better protectio...

I will be traveling through Thursday. See you at the end of the we...

Delivery day: May 21st, 2014 Well that went by fast. After waiting patiently for years for BMW to bring the "Megacity" car, their first production electric vehicle to market, my first year of ownership really flew by quickly. On May 21st of last year I was the first i3 REx delivery...

The week began, for me, with the Pope's new encyclical. That story has been buried in the US beneath the wave of big news stories involving violence here and abroad, SCOTUS decisions, and flags.I posted  a wonderful guest essay from historian Ellen Arnold on the ways in which medieval ideas about the environment are consistent with Pope Francis'...

Yesterday I had the time of my life, to close out the Ford conference the media in attendance had the opportunity to tour the streets of San Francisco in the latest vehicles from Ford – including the all-new Mustang, Edge, Escape, Explorer and Focus.Our first destination was the...

On June 23rd I traveled to sunny California to attend  Further with Ford trends conference, this discussion provided an inside look at the innovations and trends changing the way the world moves. Ford focused on three trends: The Future of Sustainable Cities, The Automation...

I have a new piece up with The Atlantic on the historic decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide. It argues that the history of marriage supports, even mandates, change as societies change.We're ready. History is with us. Love wins.Here's the piece, with thanks to Anise Strong and Ruth Karras.---UPDATE - Anise Strong gave me permission...

On Tuesday June 23rd I traveled to Silicon Valley to attend my first Further with Ford Digital Trends Conference. This was such an amazing experience I love how Ford is so innovative and constantly raising the bar with that being said at the conference they revealed the new MoDe:Flex...

The front screen door opened and then closed. I thought it was a package. But then I heard male voices on my porch. Was the delivery man saying hi to a neighbor? After a few minutes, when they continued, I opened the door to find a police officer on my porch, another on the sidewalk in front of the house, and my neighbor - a man maybe in his late 50s...

Many work wellness programs work like this - get regular checkups, hit various benchmarks of health, get money! It's a way for business to lower their health care costs by rewarding people for making healthy choices.Except that according to the ACLU, these bonuses are basically closed to people with disabilities. Moreover, there's no real evidence...

David Johnson is my main editor at Al Jazeera America, so to the extent you appreciate the pieces I write there, you have him to thank (along with several brilliant assistant editors). All mistakes, of course, are my own!But he's also a philosopher and what one might call an "alt-academic," someone who took his academic training and made a career in...

I like books! I wrote a book (and think we need to reconfigure how they work professionally).Books are, however, notoriously inaccessible to people with certain kinds of disabilities, whether it's because of vision issues of various sorts, motor control, etc.A group of disability studies scholars have published a letter on making books accessible,...