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More Americans are turning to surrogacy to build their families, as the practice becomes more common and more publicly discussed.

Why it matters: As surrogacy becomes more visible and accessible, ethical, legal and cultural tensions become harder to ignore...

This is the first part of the 14th 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...

Without a federal law, surrogacy in the U.S. is governed by a patchwork of state regulations/

Why it matters: Confusing...

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This report documents a deliberate assault on disabled people in...

Great Seal of the Navajo Nation
By Oscar Schwartz, The Washington Post | 11.23.2020

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On a clear and icy morning in...

Violent protest
By Justin Jouvenal, Spencer Hsu, The Washington Post | 11.22.2020

A line of U.S. Park Police officers pushed protesters back from Lafayette Square on June 1, firing pepper balls and...

By Karen Duffin and Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi, NPR | 11.20.2020

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For four decades, Chris Hansen worked as...

Group hugging
By Jessica Bennett, New York Times | 11.19.2020

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Nyla Conaway, 19, remembers being “called out” for changing...

By Katie Mettler, Washington Post | 11.19.2020

Prince George’s County is one of 10 jurisdictions across the country that will receive a $470,000 grant from the Justice...

By Lena Dunham, Harper's Magazine | 11.18.2020

The moment I lost my fertility I started searching for a baby. At age thirty-one, after almost two decades of...

By Molly O’Toole, Los Angeles Times | 11.18.2020

Four months ago, a Honduran immigrant named Jackelin was taken from the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia to see...

A Down's boy with dad
By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 11.18.2020

Photo by Nathan Anderson on Unsplash

Every few weeks or so, Grete Fält-Hansen gets a call from a stranger asking a...