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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...

Ota Benga
By Julia Jacobs, New York Times | 07.29.2020

Ota Benga at the 1904 World’s Fair

The Wildlife Conservation Society, which operates the Bronx Zoo, three other zoos and...

Covid-19 Vaccine
By Antonio Regalado , MIT Technology Review | 07.29.2020

Preston Estep was alone in a borrowed laboratory, somewhere in Boston. No big company, no board meetings, no billion-dollar payout...

Baby peeking
By Andrew Roth, The Guardian | 07.29.2020

As many as 1,000 babies born to surrogate mothers in Russia for foreign families have been left stranded in the...

Sign says Proceed With Caution
By Dina Temple-Raston & Tim Mak, NPR | 07.29.2020

An NPR investigation has found irregularities in the process by which the Trump administration awarded a multi-million dollar contract to...

University campus in England
By Becca Muir, Prospect | 07.28.2020

Every so often in Britain, eugenics is accused of making a comeback. Recently, the Black Lives Matter movement has drawn attention to...

Segregated pawns
By Isabel Wilkerson , The Guardian | 07.28.2020

In the winter of 1959, after leading the Montgomery bus boycott that arose from the arrest of Rosa Parks and...

Doctor examining a black patient
By Rod McCullom, Undark | 07.27.2020

THE POWER OF artificial intelligence has transformed health care by using massive datasets to improve diagnostics, treatment, records management, and patient...

Artist's impression of gene therapy
By Jon Hamilton, NPR | 07.27.2020

This is the story of a fatal genetic disease, a tenacious scientist and a family that never lost hope.

Conner...