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Topic: Eugenics

Sydney Sweeney attends the premiere of "Eden" during the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival at Roy Thomson Hall on September 07, 2024 in Toronto, Ontario. (Emma McIntyre/WireImage/Getty Images)

Sydney Sweeney, registered Republican

Alex Galbraith
Sydney Sweeney has been the face of many recent beauty ads. Her latest campaign brings controversy over who gets to be the face to define beauty. (Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Images)

"Great jeans?" or "great genes?"

CK Smith
Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, pumps his fist as he finishes speaking at a campaign rally at the Ed Fry Arena September 23, 2024 in Indiana, Pennsylvania. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

The origins of Trump's "genes" obsession

Joel Edward Goza
U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) | Glenn Close ("Mamaw") in "Hillbilly Elegy" (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Lacey Terrell/NETFLIX)

The real crisis in "Hillbilly Elegy"

Mesha Maren
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Rebecca Romijn as Una in "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" (Michael Gibson/Paramount+)

Star Trek boldly goes to a bigotry trial

Melanie McFarland
Theodore Roosevelt (Getty Images/John Parrot/Stocktrek Images)

Teddy Roosevelt's massive racism

Matthew Rozsa
(L-R) Nick Bostrom Philosopher at the Future of Humanity Institute in Oxford, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Sir Francis Galton the father of Eugenics (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

"Longtermism" is everywhere — and toxic

Émile P. Torres
Makena Ann Hullinger as Nanobah and Deanna Allison as Emma Leaphorn in "Dark Winds" (Michael Moriatis/Stalwart Productions/AMC)

The radical act of Dark Winds' women

Melanie McFarland
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#FreeBritney activists protest outside Courthouse in Los Angeles during Conservatorship Hearing on April 27, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)

Eugenics legacy in conservatorships

Michaela Kathleen Curran - The Conversation
Britney Spears (Getty Images/Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)

Spears highlights the dark side of IUDs

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Preparatory to their filing a $500,000 damage suit against the girl's mother, Mrs. Maryon Hewitt McCarter, two California physicians, and a psychiatrist, Miss Ann Cooper Hewitt, (right), and her attorney, Russel P. Tyler, are shown making final depositions. The charges claimed her mother and the doctors conspired to perform an operation rendering her sterile. (Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

The forced sterilization of an heiress

Audrey Clare Farley
Pure America by Elizabeth Catte (Photo illustration by Salon/Josh Howard/Belt Publishing)

How eugenics still haunts us

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Isla Johnston and Bill Camp in "The Queen's Gambit" (Netflix)

Where do gifted children like Beth go?

Jennifer Crane - The Conversation
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks on the South Lawn of the White House on July 16, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Trump's obsession with "good genes"

Heather Digby Parton
The Austrian-born Bernard Hollander favored a quantitative approach to phrenological diagnosis, and is shown here methodically measuring his own skull. His meticulous view of the critical role of cranial measurement mirrored Galton’s in its obsessive assessment of statistical averages. Image: Wellcome Collection. Bernard Hollander: Cranial Measurement (1902) (<a href="https://wellcomecollection.org/works/sqjvypsb">Wellcome Collection</a>. Bernard Hollander: Cranial Measurement (1902))

On the lasting legacy of eugenics

Jessica Helfand - MIT Press Reader
Bret Stephens (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

NYT recuts Bret Stephens for "racism"

Igor Derysh
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Group Of Dogs With Owners At Obedience Class (Getty/Highwaystarz-Photography)

How breeding is changing dogs' brains

Nicole Karlis
Meghan McCain on "The View" (ABC News/The View)

Whoopi fact-checks McCain on eugenics

Travis Gettys - Raw Story
Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas (AP/Salon)

Clarence Thomas: Birth control is next

Amanda Marcotte
Donald Trump; Elizabeth Warren (AP/Salon)

Trump and Warren: An unhealthy obsession

Amanda Marcotte
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Eugenics at work in Tennessee

Nick Lingerfelt - Salon Young Americans
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How genetics undermines racism

Adam Rutherford
Adolf Hitler (AP)

Hitler and American racism

Chauncey DeVega
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Debunking sexist pseudoscience

Keith A. Spencer
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