News

Palantir Has a Hand in NIH’s Most Ambitious Health Initiative

By Julia Métraux, Mother Jones [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 07.07.2026

During his 2015 State of the Union address, then-President Barack Obama announced what he promised would be an ambitious public health project. “Tonight, I’m launching a new Precision Medicine Initiative to bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes...

U.S. Federal

The Measured Listener

By Daniel Shanahan, Los Angeles Review of Books | 05.31.2026

This is the 15th 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. You can read the first part here. The series...

U.S. States

These companies help parents try to pick their babies' traits. Experts are wary

By Rob Stein, NPR [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 05.06.2026

Justin Schleede reaches onto a black lab bench to pick up a tray of small plastic tubes.

"These are saliva...

Genetic Selection

The start-ups dreaming of creating genetically modified babies

By Alexandre Piquard, Le Monde [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 05.22.2026

"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

U.S. Federal
Image from Natalism website

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...

Other Countries
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Trumpian “Common Sense” and the History of IQ Tests

By Pepper Stetler, Los Angeles Review of Books | 05.08.2025

"Donald Trump Signs The Pledge" by Michael Vadon 
is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

This is...

Society
AI graphic

A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse

By Cade Metz and Karen Weise, The New York Times | 05.05.2025

Last month, an A.I. bot that handles tech support for Cursor, an up-and-coming tool for computer programmers, alerted several...

Patents & Other IP
Robert F Kennedy Jr.

‘A slippery slope to eugenics’: advocates reject RFK Jr’s national autism database

By Melody Schreiber, The Guardian | 05.05.2025

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

Autism researchers and advocates...

Bioethics
a skull with technology

A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse

By Cade Metz and Karen Weise, The New York Times | 05.05.2025

Last month, an A.I. bot that handles tech support for Cursor, an up-and-coming tool for computer programmers, alerted several...

Patents & Other IP
eugenics poster

Maga’s era of ‘soft eugenics’: let the weak get sick, help the clever breed

By Derek Beres, The Guardian | 05.04.2025

English polymath Francis Galton formulated the concept of eugenics in 1883. Inspired by animal breeding, Galton encouraged people with...

Society
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USA : la politique pro nataliste de Trump et Musk

By M. Genries, A. Cohen, and L. Mareschal, Franceinfo [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 05.03.2025

"Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at the South Point Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada"...

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Photo of JD Vance and Giorgia Meloni

Fascist Population Engineering: Yes to White Christian Births, No to Immigrants and LGBTQ Families

By Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Lucid | 05.02.2025

Photo of JD Vance and Giorgia Meloni from the 
Office of the Vice President of the United States

$5000 bonuses...

Bioethics