October 3, 2019

21st-Century Child-Buying: Sperm Donation and the Commodification of Babies

The burgeoning fertility industry treats procreation like a business and human beings like products. The Washington Post recently featured the story of Danielle Rizzo, a gay woman who conceived two children by purchasing sperm from a donor only to...

September 30, 2013

Keeping the Poor Poor (Until They're Not)

Government data indicate that the U.S. remains far from winning the longest war in its history: the war on poverty. The latest line of argument from defenders of the welfare system is that we are measuring poverty inaccurately; counting welfare as ...