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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...

a photo of a commemorative monument in Tulsa on Black Wall Street, site of the Tulsa Race Massacre
By Emily Mullin, Wired | 09.06.2022

Wesley Fryer on Flickr

On the night of May 31, 1921, a white mob descended on the affluent Black neighborhood...

a photo of Dorothy Roberts in front of a building with her arms crossed
By Irin Carmon, New York Magazine | 09.06.2022

One day in 2006, Dorothy Roberts went in for a conference with her youngest son’s teacher. The boy, said the...

A poster for transhumanism
By Rohitha Naraharisetty, The Swaddle | 09.05.2022

"transhuman" by new 1lluminati is licensed under CC BY 2.0

“It’s as if they want to build...

ivf
By Alisyn Camerota, CNN | 09.05.2022

Approximately one in every 50 kids born in the United States today is conceived in a fertility clinic or lab, ...

a vial that says DNA TEST on it is displayed in someone's hand
By Sophie Black, The Guardian | 09.04.2022

Mortality has always been on Perry Jones’ mind, much more so than your average 20-something. She’s dealt with a number...

a magnifying glass over a silhouette of a pregnant stomach showing a dna helix
By Jenny Logan, Mad in America | 09.02.2022

At least one private company has begun offering services to allow parents undergoing in-vitro fertilization (IVF) to screen embryos for...

rainbow dna helix
By Zarya Shaikh, Queer Diagnosis | 09.01.2022

In our first episode of Season 3, Connor McAlister (he/they) contemplates the impact of emerging technologies, including CRISPR, on disabled...

holocaust memorial
By Joseph Berger, The New York Times | 09.01.2022

Photo of Memorial at Yad Vashem Holocaust
Museum by Eelco Böhtlingk on Unsplash

A new documentary about the Holocaust opens...