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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

The Ugly Historical Echoes of Kennedy’s Comments on Autism

By Jessica Grose, The New York Times | 04.23.2025

^{"Autism Awareness Ribbon" via Wikimedia Commons licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0}

Last week Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held...

Society

Forensic DNA breaks new ground for MMIP cold cases

By Mary Annette Pember, ICT News [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 04.18.2025

The sight of a room full of human cadavers can be off-putting for some, but not for Haley Omeasoo.

In...

Genomics

“NatalCon” and the Contradictions of the Pronatalist Right

By Daniel Colligan, Jacobin | 04.18.2025

^{From the Natalism website}

Last month’s gathering of pronatalists in Austin, Texas, revealed a right-wing milieu riven by internal contradictions...

Bioethics

DREDF Denounces RFK Jr.’s Comments on Autism as Hateful, Harmful and Uninformed

By Staff, DREDF | 04.17.2025

^{"Robert F. Kennedy Jr." by Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons licensed under CC by SA 3.0}

U.S. Department of Health...

Society

Pronatalism Isn’t a Solution, It’s a Problem.

By Sarah Jones, Intelligencer | 04.17.2025

^{From the Natalism website}

Elon Musk may not have appeared at the Natal Conference in Austin, Texas, this year, but...

Society

The Tactics Elon Musk Uses to Manage His ‘Legion’ of Babies—and Their Mothers

By Dana Mattioli, The Wall Street Journal | 04.15.2025

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licensed under CC by S.A. 3.0}

Ashley St. Clair wanted to...

U.S. Federal

‘Make Motherhood Great Again’: Pronatalism Finds a Comfortable Home in the Trump Administration

By Shoshanna Ehrlich, Ms. Magazine | 04.15.2025

^{Promotional image from Natalism.org}

A month into President Donald Trump’s second term, Sean Duffy, the newly appointed secretary of the...

U.S. Federal

‘Medical calamity’: dozens of Dutch sperm donors fathered at least 25 children

By Jon Henley, The Guardian | 04.14.2025

At least 85 sperm donors in the Netherlands have fathered 25 or more children, the national gynaecology and obstetrics organisation...

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