The Department of Justice has taken a big, if somewhat unheralded, step to reverse the trend of deinstitutionalization of the ...

Why are people really becoming homeless? This opinion argues Arizona's response focuses too much on housing and not enough on ...

Romania is in the final stages of closing its old orphanages, a process which began in the 1990s, when more than 100,000 children were living in such institutions.  At this moment, there are only 7 ...

Columnist Karlo Paolo R. Pates highlights the push for alternative, family-based child care over permanent ...

Just before my birthday, a Denver doctor placed me on an involuntary 72-hour mental health hold. What came next wasn’t ...

Last month, a new state-run psychiatric hospital opened in Dallas, one of the first built in several decades. The Texas ...

The Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination (SADD) resumed its commute-hour subway boarding protest Thursday after a six ...

Artificial intelligence companies in the US have spent hundreds of billions of dollars to develop more advanced chatbots, ...

Critics warn Florida’s sweeping terror law could chill speech and target groups without clear definitions or public review.

For decades, disabled people have fought for their rights to go to school and live alongside peers without disabilities ...

The Vatican said members of a breakaway right-wing Catholic group that ordained bishops without Pope Leo's approval have been ...

In most of the country, executions are a thing of the past. But one state has been carrying them out at a record pace.