In an essay for the New Yorker, Masha Gessen delivers an ominous warning about the Department of Homeland Security under President Trump. Hannah Dreier profiles a police officer in Huntsville, Alabama, for the Washington Post as part of a focus on how cops respond to mental-health calls. CNN says Eugene, Oregon, shows one way a town can shift responsibility for mental health off of its police department. Thirty years after the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act, TIME reflects on the challenges still faced by people with disabilities in the U.S. And Fast Company examines why so much of our infrastructure is still not ADA-compliant. And if you’re having trouble making sense of the latest political polls, WIRED and FiveThirtyEight have useful guides ahead of November’s elections.

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