Would the ADA pass today? | Michael Tomasky

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. We don't often group it among the great historic legislation of all time, and maybe it's not quite up there with the civil rights bill. But it was certainly a civil rights bill on its own terms, without question. It was a bipartisan effort, and something of which president George H. W. Bush ought to be justifiably proud. Tom Harkin, Democratic senator of Iowa, led the fight, and his name will live in...