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Demographic Fears and Far-Right Fantasies

By Alexandra Minna Stern, Los Angeles Review of Books | 09.26.2026

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This is the 17th 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...

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This startup wants to prove gene-editing embryos is safe for making healthy babies

By Rob Stein, NPR [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 09.29.2026

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Cathy Tie slips on a white lab coat bearing her name and the logo of her startup: Origin Genomics. "Welcome!" she says as she leads an NPR reporter, photographer and videographer on an exclusive tour of Origin's labs located...

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Eugenics and the Nihilism of Law-and-Order Politics

By Terence Keel, Los Ángeles Review of Books | 09.06.2026

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This is the 16th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...

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Is AI the End of the World as We Know It?

By Pete Shanks | 09.24.2026
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a major focus of news recently, as it should have been, under the appropriately ridiculous...

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Biopolitical Times

Can You Really See Everything? Hype and Fraud in Silicon Valley

By Emma McDonald Kennedy | 10.29.2026

At the beginning of Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s blockbuster documentary You Can See Everything, Billy Evans (partner of...

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How a Deeply Inhumane World Makes Having Children Difficult

By Jennifer Denbow, Guest Contributor | 10.29.2026

Almost every day I am reminded that we are in the midst of a fertility panic. Whether it’s the Vice...

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Is AI the End of the World as We Know It?

By Pete Shanks | 09.24.2026

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a major focus of news recently, as it should have been, under the appropriately ridiculous...

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Would you pay to have the ‘best baby’? Liberal eugenics and the troubling quest for human perfection

By Jan Grue, The Guardian | 10.27.2026

For a very long time, I dreamed of being cured. I was born in 1981. I learned to walk early enough, but I stumbled and fell more easily than other children. My parents began to worry that something was wrong...

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Surrogacy and Big Tech Collide in Fallow

By Anna Louie Sussman, The New Republic | 10.26.2026

There’s a certain kind of novel that’s not quite apocalyptic enough to be science fiction, but just far-fetched enough to be speculative. No one is from outer space; society has not yet been carved up into a hierarchy of groups...

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Meet Michelle: Leading the Way for Egg Donation Reform in Belgium

By staff, We Are Egg Donors | 10.21.2026

Michelle Lambrechts is a police officer and one-time egg donor in Belgium. She is also the founder of Ik Zit Met Een Ei, a Belgian nonprofit that advocates for egg donors. (The name is a Dutch play on words...

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A New Hope for Gene Editing

By Gary Sernovitz, Bloomberg | 10.21.2026

Three years ago, at the age of 50, I found out I have dangerous genes. So in June, I went to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to see how they could be fixed. Among my 6 billion base pairs of DNA are two...

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