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 ...

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 ...

The New York Times has taken the mainstream media’s sanewashing of Donald Trump to the next level, this time with an innocuous-sounding headline: “Trump’s Remarks on Migrants Illustrate His Obsession ...

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 ...

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 ...

Caltech announced Friday that it would remove the name of its founding president and first Nobel laureate, Robert A. Millikan, from campus buildings because he supported eugenics — joining ...

Theodore Dru Alison “Theo” Cockerell was one of the early 20th-century’s best-known entomologists. Widely considered the foremost expert on bees, he was a prolific writer and researcher, and professor ...

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 ...