News

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
Image of the front of the white house

Project 2025 decried as racist. Some contributors have trail of racist writings, activity

By Will Carless, USA Today | 07.29.2024
U.S. Federal
Green sign stating disability rights = civil rights

5 Ways to Teach Disability History in Social Studies Class

By Kara Newhouse, KQED | 07.29.2024
Civil Society
Protest with people holding a banner stating "Stop Project 2025"

Project 2025 Isn’t Just Anti-Abortion. It Attacks Surrogacy, IVF, Contraception.

By Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout | 07.27.2024

"41.Rally.StopProject2025.WDC.27January2024" by Elvert Barnes licensed under CC by SA 2.0

Early childhood educator Sammi Gerken, a married mother...

U.S. Federal
Image of JD Vance

J.D. Vance’s Appalachian Graveyard

By Elizabeth Catte, In These Times | 07.25.2024

"JD Vance" by Gage Skidmore licensed under CC by SA 2.0

In May, two months before his selection...

U.S. States
a photo of a flagpole with the Chinese flag flying

China: Leaked Plan Reveals Bid To Get Officials To Have More Children

By Chen Zifei, Eurasia Review | 07.24.2024

Photo by Brian Matangelo on Unsplash

A leaked internal draft document from the municipal health authority in the southeastern Chinese...

Other Countries
Image of a penny over a black background

The moral bankruptcy of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz

By Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge | 07.24.2024

Image by Adam Nir from Unsplash

Last week, the founders of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz declared their allegiance to...

U.S. States
Image of two cartoon genetic scientists on either side of a large double helix

A Disease That Makes Children Age Rapidly Gets Closer to a Cure

By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 07.24.2024

A cure for an ultrarare disease, progeria, could be on the horizon. The disease speeds up aging in children and...

Human Genetic Modification
dna dissolving into blue background

Real-Life Biotech Firm Petitions Star Trek's Federation on Reddit to Change Galactic Law

By Russ Burlingame, Comicbook | 07.23.2024

Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences, a biotech company that's putting together plans to orchestrate the de-extinction for animals like the dodo...

Genetic Selection