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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 Oscar Schwartz, The New York Times | 05.28.2022

When a man washed up on the shores of Christmas Island in 1942, lifeless and hunched over in a shrapnel-riddled...

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By Amy Dockser Marcus, The Wall Street Journal | 05.27.2022

Tyler Sniff took a home DNA test at 32 years old and unexpectedly learned that the man who raised him...

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By Michelle Fox, CNBC | 05.27.2022

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As employers try to entice new workers and keep the ones they have, more...

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By Carey Goldberg, Bloomberg | 05.26.2022

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Simone Collins knew she was pregnant the moment she answered the phone. She was...

the cover of The Genetic Lottery. A book by Kathryn Paige Harden
By Kathryn Paige Harden et al., The New York Review | 05.25.2022

In response to:

Why Biology Is Not Destiny from the April 21, 2022 issue

To the Editors:

Marcus Feldman...

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By Janet D. Stemwedel , The Scientific American | 05.24.2022

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The white supremacist who drove 200 miles to a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket and opened...

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By Megan Molteni, STAT | 05.23.2022

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The 18-year-old gunman suspected of carrying out a racist attack that killed 10 and...

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By Benedict Ipgrave, Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, Marcy Darnovsky, Subhadra Das, Charlene Galarneau, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Nora Ellen Groce, Tony Platt, Milton Reynolds, Marius Turda, Robert A Wilson, The Lancet | 05.21.2022

September, 1921 was unusually hot and New York was sweltering. For the many immigrants who crowded the city's tenements and...