News

Surrogacy goes more mainstream

By Carly Mallenbaum, Axios [cites Emily Galpern] | 03.29.2026

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...

U.S. Federal

Eugenics and the Modern Synthesis, Part I

By Jessica Riskin, Los Ángeles Review of Books | 03.23.2026

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...

Civil Society

Surrogacy laws are all over the map

By Carly Mallenbaum, Axios [cites Surrogacy360] | 03.29.2026

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

Why it matters: Confusing...

Policies

Project Eugenics: The Rollback of Disability Rights

By Kiana Jackson and Shannon Stubblefield, New Disabled South | 02.09.2026

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

U.S. States

The Folly of ‘America First’ in the Race for Biodata Amid a Pandemic

By Tamsin Shaw, The New York Review of Books | 05.13.2020

America’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has exposed a shocking lack of preparedness for public health emergencies. But it has...

Genomics

Coronavirus is the ultimate demonstration of the real-world impact of racism

By Alana Lentin, The Guardian | 05.12.2020

As coronavirus continues to rampage across the globe, it has become apparent that, while biologically the virus may not discriminate...

Does it matter that traces of coronavirus have been found in semen?

By Alison Motluk, HeyReprotech Newsletter | 05.12.2020

Genes from the virus that causes COVID-19 have been found in the semen of men who had the disease, according...

Assisted Reproduction

A white doctor injecting a black research subject at Tuskegee

How Racism Is Shaping the Coronavirus Pandemic

By Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker | 05.07.2020

Evelynn Hammonds, who chairs Harvard’s department of the history of science, has spent her career studying the intersection of race...

U.S. Federal

The near-certainty of a black depression

By Aaron Ross Coleman, Vox | 05.06.2020

Black Americans experience recessions the way front-seat passengers do head-on collisions. During the Great Depression, when national unemployment reached 24...