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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...

eugenics poster
By Derek Beres, The Guardian | 05.04.2025

English polymath Francis Galton formulated the concept of eugenics in 1883. Inspired by animal breeding, Galton encouraged people with...

Photo of JD Vance and Giorgia Meloni
By Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Lucid | 05.02.2025

Photo of JD Vance and Giorgia Meloni from the 
Office of the Vice President of the United States

$5000 bonuses...

A photograph of Judith Heumann, as a panelist, ready to speak
By Elayne Clift, Daily Kos | 05.01.2025

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Back in the 1980s when I...

sickle cell graphic
By Oluwatosin Adesoye, Sickle Cell Disease News | 04.30.2025

Several weeks ago, when news of the first sickle cell disease patient to be cured by gene therapy went viral...

graphic with three babies
By Ariel Messman-Rucker, Pride | 04.30.2025

Family values conservatives have been obsessed with heterosexual marriages and babies for decades. They have fought to curtail women’s rights...

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By Aitor Hernandez-Morales, Politico | 04.30.2025

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The Spanish government is banning its embassies and consulates from registering children...

eugenics illustration
By Jonathan Michels, Jacobin | 04.29.2025

In 2018, Dr James Tabery watched a documentary about North Carolina’s eugenics program and the fraught effort to financially compensate...