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The Mysterious Eugenics of Aesthetic Taste

By Michael Rossi, The Los Angeles Review of Books | 01.11.2026

This is the 10th 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 Osagie K. Obasogie in...

Arts & Culture

The mirage of AI deregulation

By Alondra Nelson, Science | 01.15.2026

One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to announce a forthcoming “One...

Global Governance

More and “Better” Babies: The Dark Side of the Pronatalist Movement

By Daphne O. Martschenko and Julia E. H. Brown, Hastings Bioethics Forum | 01.14.2026

There is growing concern that falling fertility rates will lead to economic and demographic catastrophe. The social and political movement...

Genetic Selection

Bay Area Startups Want to Make Genetically Engineered Babies. What Could Go Wrong?

By Grace Won, KQED Forum [with CGS' Katie Hasson] | 12.02.2025

In the U.S., it’s illegal to edit genes in human embryos with the intention of creating a genetically engineered baby...

Genetic Selection

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Bobby Kennedy Jr. Makes Eugenics Great Again at Health and Human Services

By Paul Josephson, Common Dreams | 05.17.2025

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Charles Fremont Dight has...

Civil Society

Improving human beings to make them perform better: Why is transhumanism so harmful?

By Nicolas Le Dévédec, The Conversation | 05.14.2025

The goal of transhumanists is to improve human beings so they will perform better. In doing so, they contribute above...

Society

NSF board member resigns, saying Trump’s policies have harmed the agency

By Jeffrey Mervis, Science | 05.13.2025

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In an unprecedented move, a member...

U.S. Federal

Scientific societies call for a moratorium on using CRISPR to create genetically modified children

By Megan Molteni, Stat | 05.13.2025

Leading trade organizations representing the makers of cell and gene therapies are calling for a 10-year international moratorium on the...

U.S. Federal

With No Real Policy, Trump Asks Drugmakers to Lower U.S. Prices

By Margot Sanger-Katz and Rebecca Robbins, The New York Times | 05.12.2025

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U.S. Federal

Nobel Prize winners convince court to revive CRISPR patent dispute

By Blake Brittain, Reuters | 05.12.2025

The University of California and the University of Vienna on Monday convinced a U.S. appeals court to revive their bid...

Policies

Colossal Bioscience’s attempt to de-extinct the dire wolf is a dangerously deceptive publicity stunt

By David Coltman, Carson Mitchell, Liam Alastair Wayde Carter, and Tommy Galfano, The Conversation | 05.12.2025

Colossal Biosciences, a Texas-based biotech company, made headlines this April after falsely claiming to resurrect the extinct dire wolf...

Animal Biotechnologies

The GOP’s Resurgence Of Pro-Natalism Looks A Lot Like The Past

By Alanna Vagianos, HuffPost | 05.09.2025

President Donald Trump is reportedly entertaining policy proposals to incentivize American women to have more children. But the proposals don’t...

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