Donald Trump’s Decades-Long Obsession With Eugenics

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Many people were shocked to read allegations last year by Donald Trump’s nephew, Fred Trump III, about his uncle: Fred, whose son William has intellectual and developmental disabilities, reported that the elder Trump said during his first presidential term that people like William should “just die.” That is shocking—but it’s not surprising. The comment falls […]
Julia Métraux

Can Bacteria Serve as “Microscopic Miners” of the Metals We Need?

6 days 16 hours ago
This story was originally published on the author’s substack, Field Notes From Alexander C. Kaufman, to which you can subscribe here. Five years after President Donald Trump signaled his support for extracting metals from the moon, his new administration is seeking to satisfy the United States’ hunger for critical minerals by encouraging mining under the polar ice caps, amid warzones, and at […]
Alexander C. Kaufman