This latter note may seem like a minor quibble, but it points to a broader phenomenon: the subtle creep of race science into ...

Jordan Lasker, known online as Crémieux, is taking a victory lap after he was mentioned by The New York Times.

A new book, Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics & American Economics in the Progressive Era by Princeton scholar Thomas Leonard highlights the history of this morally indefensible progressive policy.

Years before Nazis preached about a master race, millions of Americans tried to breed a better, and whiter, race. A new PBS film looks at “The Eugenics Crusade” that caused leaders to ...

Eugenics was the pseudoscience aimed at "improving" the human race. In its extreme, racist form, this meant wiping away all human beings deemed "unfit," preserving only those who conformed to a ...

In the 1930s, these ideas came to form the bedrock of Nazi race doctrine. Eugenics was a key component of Nazism and shaped both formal fascist ideology and how the Nazi regime treated its victims.

Critical race theory is a continuation of eugenics that continues to put emphasis on race over individual abilities. Included in race are the Jewish people as a whole from an anti-Semitic viewpoint.

Eugenics, which took hold in the United States in the early 20th century, was presented as a scientific solution to alcoholism, poverty, criminality, sexual promiscuity, "feeblemindedness." ...

Some U.S. physicians appear to be embracing "political eugenics" with calls to normalize preferred health care for Black and Latino patients to allegedly address structural inequities, DePaul ...

What Margaret Sanger Really Said About Eugenics and Race. 5 minute read. circa 1915: Studio headshot portrait of American social reformer Margaret Sanger, founder of the birth control movement.