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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...

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...

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

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

CRISPR graphic
By Ryan Cross, Endpoints News | 02.19.2025

On a sunny September day in 2023, scientists at CRISPR Therapeutics invited me to peer through their microscopes. Through the...

flag of Japan on blue background
By Ewan Bolton, The Telegraph | 02.18.2025

Just last week, in the Miyagi prefecture of Japan, the local governor met victims of an official eugenics policy to...

sickle cells in a blood sample
By Bertha Coombs, CNBC | 02.18.2025

Starting in his early teens, Deshawn “DJ” Chow wasn’t sure he’d ever be able to live a normal life. Crushing...

graphic of flags of Georgia and Thailand
By Blene Woldeselasse, Humans Rights Research Center | 02.18.2025

Three Thai women have been rescued from a human egg trafficking operation in Georgia, run by a Chinese human trafficking...

gene therapy graphic
By Oriol Güell, El País | 02.17.2025

A “small strand of blood in the poop.” This was the first sign, initially viewed as unimportant, that put Jesús...

a photograph of Edinburgh, Scotland
By Mark McLaughlin, The Times | 02.17.2025

Scottish authorities collaborated with a Nazi eugenicist to racially profile Gypsies and Travellers as part of a campaign of “cultural...