After President Donald Trump used the word “retarded” recently, social media posts including the term tripled, fueling a trend that has disability advocates on edge. A new report finds that a ...

The sight of the slur shocked and alarmed the mother of a young boy with special needs. Kimberly Steffes of Joliet never imagined a sitting president would use the “R-word,” a derogatory term long ...

In the winter of 2009, Special Olympics held a global youth summit that launched a new effort to end the use of the r-word, “retarded,” as a disability slur. Over the following decade, the initiative ...

On the evening before Thanksgiving, the president of the United States took to his social media platform to claim in a lengthy screed that immigration was destroying the country. In one spurious ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article features language that may be hurtful to readers. On an April episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” the host used a slur within the first 45 seconds of the show. “The word ...