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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...

Donald Trump making a speech
By Heather Digby Parton, Salon | 12.18.2023

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

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Donald Trump
By Heather Digby Parton, Truthout | 12.18.2023

Donald Trump believes in eugenics. He really does. Of course, his understanding of it is purely based upon his...

23andme test packs
By Cathy Cassata, Yahoo [Cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 12.15.2023

Millions of people use genetic testing companies like 23andMe to learn more about their ancestry and health. But a new...

wall of pictures of hundreds of Holocaust victims
By Nicole Chavez, CNN | 12.14.2023

Discussions about the Holocaust, genocide and eugenics could be part of the science curriculum for middle and high school students in Maine as education...

gene therapy
By Brittany Trang, STAT | 12.13.2023

PHILADELPHIA — The meds Shelby Campbell needed for her rare blood disorder stopped working just after her sixth birthday. She...

pregnancy tests
By Cynthia R. Greenlee, The Guardian | 12.11.2023

For many Black women in the US, infertility has a complicated duality. The inability to conceive is often invisible, pushed...

sickle cell in test tube
By Carolyn Y. Johnson, The Washington Post [cites CGS’ Pete Shanks ] | 12.08.2023

The first medicine based on gene editing, a one-time therapy for sickle cell disease, was just approved in the...

sickle cells
By Rebecca Robbins and Stephanie Nolen, The New York Times | 12.08.2023

The Food and Drug Administration’s approval on Friday of two groundbreaking gene therapy treatments for sickle cell disease has brought...