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 disturbing thing that happens when you tell people they have different DNA

By Ana Swanson, Wonkblog [The Washington Post] | 05.13.2016

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The first real interview I ever did was in 1999 in Dubrovnik, Croatia, the white-stone city perched on...

Global Governance

Secret Harvard meeting on synthetic human genomes incites ethics debate

By Joel Achenbach, Washington Post | 05.13.2016

About 150 scientists assembled at Harvard on Tuesday for an off-the-record, no-media-allowed discussion of how to create, from scratch, an...

Civil Society

George Church, professor at Harvard Medical School, was one of the organizers of a closed meeting on synthetic genomes.

Top scientists hold closed meeting to discuss building a human genome from scratch

By Ike Swetlitz, STAT | 05.13.2016

Over 130 scientists, lawyers, entrepreneurs, and government officials from five continents gathered at Harvard this week for an “exploratory” meeting...

Genomics