Explore how viral jeans ads from American Eagle and Gap became the unlikely new frontier in the overheated culture wars of ...

In this telling, Sweeney’s breasts are not just breasts. They are an ideological corrective and a rebuttal to body positivity and inclusivity. They’re a sign that we can finally stop pretending beauty ...

Since the full scope of Nazi crimes was revealed, eugenics has fallen deeply out of fashion. Yet if the term has become taboo, some of the practices associated with it have not. Today we are ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. On Sept. 2, in a comment from the White House aimed at justifying sending federal troops into Baltimore, President ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Logo of the Second International Congress of Eugenics, NYC, 1922. The American Eugenics Society ...

That company, Orchid Health, provides tony clients the opportunity to screen their embryos for genetic illnesses starting at around $22,500. While there are a handful of similar genetic prediction ...

A version of this story ran in the July / August 2025 issue. I’ll admit: Having grown addicted to the treats of literary nonfiction, I don’t make it through too many academic histories these days. If ...

A Gen Z entrepreneur and apparent eugenics enthusiast has launched an app that allows prospective parents to rank which embryos they want the most. First reported by the Wall Street Journal, this new, ...

Genevieve L. Wojcik is an associate professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,Baltimore, Maryland, USA. In 1924, motivated by the rising eugenics movement, the ...

As the various pursuits of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. generate pushback from the scientific Left, they draw out distinctions between the two camps’ aims, either to alter ...

Nearing the end of his first term, on September 18, 2020, Pres. Donald Trump invoked the “racehorse theory” at a campaign rally in Bemidji, MN, to claim that he and his followers had genetically ...

That’s one motto of industrial eugenicist Noor Siddiqui, whose company believes babies should be made in a lab so that her company can investigate their genes, and the lab can then set aside or ...