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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...

Eugenics
By Daniel Vergano , Scientific American | 10.14.2024

Former president Donald Trump, in his inimitable way, has done at least one service to the cause of honesty. In...

Donald Trump
By Jackie Calmes, Los Angeles Times | 10.11.2024

Donald Trump” by Gage Skidmore is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

Donald Trump's fascination with genetics, especially his...

dna strands on a green background
By Ashleigh Wyss [cites CGS' Katie Hasson], Listnr | 10.09.2024

Discovering your genetic history can be as simple as spitting into a test tube, but what happens when your data...

graphic of gene therapy
By Jocelyn Kaiser , Science | 10.09.2024

Rare and fatal, the genetic disease known as cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) devastates the brain in young boys. A mutation on...

Trump
By Isabela Dias, Mother Jones | 10.07.2024

Photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

It was...

wheel of dan
By Claudia López Lloreda, Undark Magazine | 10.02.2024

WHEN Andres Moreno-Estrada began studying genetics back in the early 2000s, the high cost of sequencing DNA was the biggest barrier...

sickle cell graphic
By Deena Beasley, Reuters | 09.28.2024

Student Zoe Davis, 20, was just weeks into her junior year when she landed back in the hospital with severe...

a graphic of crispr gene editing
By Sara Moretto, The Varsity | 09.22.2024

It was 2020. I was wrapping up grade nine science with a solid 60 per cent, hoping that if anyone...