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The conservative group behind the Project 2025 governing playbook for President Donald Trump’s second term is set to propose sweeping revisions to U.S. economic policy meant to encourage married heterosexual couples to have more children.

The Heritage Foundation, a right-wing...

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On Monday, President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held a press conference on their attempts to divine the causes of autism—much...

A Chinese scientist horrified the world in 2018 when he revealed he had secretly engineered the birth of the world's...

Imagine this: a future where parents could choose their baby’s eye colour, height or even intelligence.

Sounds like science fiction...

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By Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer, Washington Monthly | 07.10.2021

Between 2010 and 2015, drug companies submitted data to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for three different drugs...

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By Derek Hawkins, Washington Post | 07.09.2021

A brutal chapter in American history began in 1909 with the stroke of a doctor’s pen.

California’s eugenics law, enacted...

'black women's lives matter' on a sign during a protest
By Michele Goodwin, New York Times | 07.09.2021

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During its coming term, the Supreme Court will review the constitutionality of a Mississippi...

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By Adam Beam, AP | 07.07.2021

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is poised to approve reparations of up to $25,000 to some of the thousands of...

By Nico Lang, them. | 07.07.2021

Ohio will now allow medical providers to refuse treatment that violates their religious beliefs after conservatives snuck language into the...

By Kirsty Needham and Clare Baldwin, Reuters | 07.07.2021

A Chinese gene company selling prenatal tests around the world developed them in collaboration with the country's military and is...

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By Nicola Davis, The Guardian | 07.04.2021

Plans to sequence the whole genome of every newborn in the UK in order to spot those at heightened risk...

By Jordan Smith, The Intercept | 07.03.2021

William Thompson, a professor emeritus of criminology and law at the University of California, Irvine, lives in University Hills...