On Monday, Planned Parenthood removed the name of Margaret Sanger from its health clinic in Manhattan. By way of explanation, the organization cited its founder’s “harmful connections to the eugenics ...

Last month, Caltech announced that the names of six men with historical ties to the university would be removed from all “campus buildings, assets, and honors.” This unnaming came as the institution ...

In the world of pseudo-science, eugenics holds a dark position in history thanks to its being a social philosophy based on improving society via the manipulation of a population’s genetic stock. Its ...

Photo: This family was awarded Honorable Mention, Large Family Class, as part of a eugenics exhibit at a Kansas fair in 1923. The term eugenics comes from the Greek roots for "good" and "generation" ...

More than 50 House lawmakers have sponsored a resolution that would formally apologize for their predecessors’ roles in the Vermont eugenics movement. The apology is a necessary step toward atoning ...

Nearly 100 years ago, Congress passed a restrictive law that cut the overall number of immigrants coming to the United States and put severe limits on those who were let in. Journalist Daniel Okrent ...

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Nora Sullivan is a Washington, D.C.-based writer and communications director at Movement Funding. She holds a master’s degree in public affairs from University College Dublin. Even for those who ...

Scientists need to get used to the idea that they have responsibilities that go beyond the laboratory, or beyond their latest research paper, say Professors Hadley Horch and Barry Logan. A number of ...

Fox Business anchor Dagen McDowell bizarrely claimed Tuesday that the government providing universal health care to all Americans was comparable to the Eugenics movement, which led to the "forced ...

In today’s public discourse, the use of terms like “animals” and “apes” to refer to members of historically marginalized racial and ethnic groups strikes a painful chord. In a related manner (though ...