"Long Island and the Legacy of Eugenics" tells how testimony from a Cold Spring Harbor-based facility once guided both the ...

We’ve entered the era of smartphones and eugenics. “They’re eating cats, they’re eating dogs,” Trump had exclaimed ...

In 1883 a British biologist named Francis Galton combined the roots of the Greek words for "good" and "origin" to create the term "eugenics" for an applied science based on genetics and breeding.

While a “soft” version of poverty as individual failure might have attributed poverty to laziness or immoral behavior, eugenics introduced a “harder” version of a biologically determined ...

The eugenics movement of the early 1900s ultimately went horribly wrong despite its noble aims. What can we learn from this movement's outcomes in order to avoid the repetition of these mistakes?

Anita Say Chan, an associate professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has authored a new book that identifies how the eugenics movement ...

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 ...

The headline and corresponding article, published Wednesday evening, are actually obfuscating a far darker reality: Trump’s ...

Television viewers are familiar with the “Law and Order” promo: stories “ripped from the headlines.” “No Perfect Mothers” is, in its way, one of these, but the headlines are from 1927.

Through a selection of policies that the far-right will cheer on, Trump's second term looks set to be devastating for ...

The judiciary has made clear it holds the state accountable for inhumane acts committed under the old eugenics law in urging it to confront past wrongs and break away from discriminatory policies ...

The UK government is under intense pressure to sack Sabisky for his comments about eugenics, the widely discredited attempt to link intelligence t0 racial characteristics. The Downing Street ...