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This is the 10th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. The series is organized by Osagie K. Obasogie in...

One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to announce a forthcoming “One...

There is growing concern that falling fertility rates will lead to economic and demographic catastrophe. The social and political movement...

In the U.S., it’s illegal to edit genes in human embryos with the intention of creating a genetically engineered baby...

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By Liz Essley Whyte, The Wall Street Journal | 01.10.2023

The Food and Drug Administration is pressing pause on drug-company testing of experimental medicines more often, a side effect of...

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By Heather Tal Murphy, Slate | 01.10.2023

Around 4 a.m. on Nov. 13, a masked man broke into a house about a mile from the University of...

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By Emily Sohn, Nature | 01.09.2023

Each day, around 350 people in the United States die from lung cancer. Many of those deaths could be prevented...

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By Maria Botcharova, PET | 01.09.2023

Russian troops mobilised to fight in Ukraine will be offered sperm freezing and fertility treatment, it has been announced.

Increasing...

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By Miranda Bryant, The Guardian | 01.08.2023

The UK’s fertility regulator has called for an urgent update to the law around egg freezing as rapidly growing numbers...

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By Timothy Snyder, Thinking about... | 01.08.2023

When Vladimir Putin says that Russians and Ukrainians are one people, what he means is that Ukrainians will agree when...

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By Adam Beam and The Associated Press, Fortune | 01.04.2023

About 600 people alive today can’t have children because California’s government sterilized them either against their will or without their...

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By George Yancy, Truthout | 01.03.2023

As I’ve continued to think more about the phenomenon of “disability,” I am compelled to rethink “ableism” beyond a hegemonic...