Uninformed comments on autism are resonant of dangerous ideas about eugenics

May 31, 2025

By: The Conversation

The dark parallels between 1920s America and today’s political climate

March 10, 2025

By: The Conversation

How Trump’s racist talk of immigrant ‘bad genes’ echoes some of the last century’s darkest ideas about eugenics

October 30, 2024

By: The Conversation

A new ‘race science’ network is linked to a history of eugenics that never fully left academia

October 25, 2024

By: The Conversation

Yes, calling someone ‘mentally disabled’ causes real harm

October 3, 2024

By: The Conversation

Eugen Sandow was the posterboy of physical culture: his 1904 visit to South Africa reinforced racist ideas

June 29, 2024

By: The Conversation

Backlash to transgender health care isn’t new − but the faulty science used to justify it has changed to meet the times

February 3, 2024

By: The Conversation

In the worst of America’s Jim Crow era, Black intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois found inspiration and hope in national parks

December 17, 2023

By: The Conversation

White men have controlled women’s reproductive rights throughout American history – the post-Dobbs era is no different

September 3, 2023

By: The Conversation

What is voluntary sterilization? A health communication expert unpacks how a legacy of forced sterilization shapes doctor-patient conversations today

December 10, 2022

By: The Conversation