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Alex Pearlman

Alex Pearlman is a bioethicist and journalist who writes about the intersection of human rights and emerging technologies.

An illustration of small pieces of DNA at precise areas along a DNA strand

The first genome edited babies are here. What happens next?

Commentary

Commentary: The world’s first genome edited babies were inevitable and even predictable, despite an apparent disregard for all global scientific and ethical norms.

Efforts underway to educate young reporters in Haiti

Politics

‘We need to tell them the history of Haiti’

Politics

The league of extraordinary worldly women

Conflict

Panel: Next generation of women needs to step it up on the corporate ladder

Conflict

Storify: Machismo and the threat to Latin American women

Conflict

A Women in the World panel on the trafficking and systematic murder of women and girls in Latin America was graphic and heart-wrenching, but it inspired a lively social media debate. We Storified the best tweets from that panel at #wiw12.

For female war photographers, a tribute to hard work

Politics

Marie Colvin was one of the best war reporters anyone had ever met, and one of very few women who head into combat. At this year’s Women in the World summit, photographer Lynsey Addario led a tribute to the late journalist.

Why you should care about Hungary’s rabid right

Conflict

The far-right Jobbik party is making waves across Europe as it continues to gain momentum in the polls with racist rhetoric and calls for Hungary to leave the EU.

UN announcement on Manning a year late

Conflict

Bradley Manning has been formally charged and has been removed from Quantico. But while he was there, a new report finds, he was subjected to torture.

Burma reforms don’t reach Kachin region

Conflict

While many have looked with hope at the small steps taken by Burma toward democratic reform, the northern Kachin region faces atrocities committed by the military.

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