Brian Trapp's novel "Range of Motion" is based on his own experience of growing up with a twin with severe cerebral palsy.

WASHINGTON – Disability rights groups fear a death penalty case before the Supreme Court could have implications for the intellectually disabled far beyond the criminal context. The justices are ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Jason Riley, Allysia Finley and Kim Strassel. Photo: Bonnie Cash/CNP/Zuma Press/Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Images/Rogelio V. Solis/AP ...

This editorial by Lucas Grundmeier represents the views of the Register's editorial board. Iowa’s new Center for Intellectual Freedom is up and running, fresh off a two-day Iowa City kickoff event.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with where the line should be drawn on intellectual disability when the death penalty is on the table in a case that could make it harder for convicted killers ...

The case involves an Alabama man who challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results in a series of I.Q. tests. By Ann E. Marimow Reporting from Washington The ...

For half a century, the U.S. has been achieving one of the most important civil rights victories most Americans have never heard of: closing the large institutions that once warehoused people with ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a case that advocates say could have major implications for how intellectual disability is defined. The high court will consider Hamm v. Smith on ...

“The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery” (Harvard, 368 pages, $29.95) began with a question. “I wanted to know,” writes John Samuel Harpham, “how what we now consider perhaps the most terrible ...

The Heritage Foundation, which has stood for decades as the intellectual crown jewel of the conservative movement, has been convulsed in an ugly public spat over the organization’s approach to ...

Beyond the laughter that surprises and sometimes shocks, dark or "edgy" humor reveals something fascinating about how you perceive the world. It's a humor that dares to challenge, that plays with ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (Gray Media Iowa Capitol Bureau) - The advisory council for the University of Iowa’s new Center for Intellectual Freedom voted 10-7 Tuesday to approve bylaws, including how to select ...