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 ...

Eugenics -- the discredited "science" that justified customizing people to service the goals of the state by making them bigger, better, whiter, you name it -- is back. In fact, it's playing at a ...

In the heyday of eugenics, too many Christians lost their moral and theological bearings. Christianity affirms God’s image in all people. This makes it an awkward fit with the notion that some image ...

Spring 1924 was the high water mark for the Eugenics Record Office, a Cold Spring Harbor research facility whose staff hoped to use selective breeding to engineer the human race. The work is now ...

Although eugenics might seem like a distant and grim topic associated with the British in the 19th century and later the Nazis, progressive race science was also present in interwar Estonia. Eugenics, ...

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Eugenics is a concept often associated with the horrors of Nazi Germany. But, as disability rights activist Adam Pearson explores in a new documentary series, the ideology had its roots in 19th ...