Business Kenneth Boyd | 2 Sep 2019 Jay-Z and the NFL: Hypocrisy or Suite Participation? What, if any, obligation does Jay-Z, as a high-profile advocate for social justice and a recognizable brand, have to not condone or distract from the NFL's many public relation problems?
Business Rachel Robison-Greene | 21 Aug 2019 What’s In a Name? The Morality in “Meat” Recent legal challenges to the use of 'meat' and 'milk' labels for alternatives (from Tofurky to soymilk and even in vitro meat) lack legal weight and moral reason.
Corporate Responsibility and Human Rights: DNA Data Collection in Xinjiang A coercive data collection campaign in China raises questions about corporate complicity. What obligation, if any, do companies have when their goods are being used to cause harm or violate others' rights? 16 Aug 2019 | Luka Ignac
The California Housing Crisis and Collective Action California's housing shortage touches on everything: privilege, fairness, class conflict, and free-riders. 2 Aug 2019 | Tucker Sechrest
Plant-Based Meat Substitutes, Sensational Reporting, and Information Literacy The media's treatment of recent plant-based meat rollouts fails to give the significant moral gains their due. 16 Jul 2019 | Rachel Robison-Greene
Farmworker Abuse and Agricultural Exceptionalism Farmwork has been treated much differently than other forms of labor. Is this difference justified or is it time for change? 9 Jul 2019 | A.G. Holdier
Do Women’s Soccer Players Deserve Equal Pay for Equal Play? In assessing the different sides of the debate there are a number of relevant factors at play from relative commercial value to social message and even historical injustice. 3 Jul 2019 | Alfred Archer
Sephora and Diversity Training Diversity training is being used more and more often in the wake of incidents of racial bias. Is it more than a mea culpa? 12 Jun 2019 | Kenneth Boyd
Does Care Require Personhood? The Ethics of Robot Caregiving Emerging healthcare technologies like Rudy, Addison, and PARO should prompt us to reassess the healthcare industry and to contemplate the difference between service and care. 7 Jun 2019 | Rachel Robison-Greene
Establishing Liability in Artificial Intelligence Algorithms are capable of causing harm, but it isn't easy to identify who should be held accountable when they do. 3 Jun 2019 | Meredith McFadden
Kylie Jenner and the Possibility of Being "Self-Made" What can a controversy over the "self-made" title tell us about privilege and inequality? 10 May 2019 | Meredith McFadden
The Ethics of Brand Humanization Corporations' push to attract a marketing-resistant demographic is producing some troubling effects. 29 Apr 2019 | Beatrice Harvey
Airplane Crashes and the Diffusion of Responsibility How can we evaluate moral responsibility in cases like the Boeing airplane crashes? 16 Apr 2019 | Andrew Bobker
Permalancing and What it Means for Work “Full-time freelancing” is becoming the norm for more and more American workers. What does this trend mean? 2 Apr 2019 | Kenneth Boyd
What is Rentier Capitalism? How ethical is economic rent implemented broadly in the context of capitalism? 12 Mar 2019 | Amy Elyse Gordon
Should Pointless Jobs Exist? Both Marxists and capitalists predicted we'd have to do less work in the 21st century, so why do so many "pointless" jobs exist? 27 Nov 2018 | Amy Elyse Gordon
Who Can Help? Who Should? Being a Billionaire in a Suffering Society Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' decision to donate money to finance preschools and battle homelessness might be good. But is it enough? 28 Sep 2018 | Meredith McFadden
Is Google Obligated to Stay out of China? Google has long held out from entering the Chinese market, but profits may change their minds. 17 Sep 2018 | Kenneth Boyd
Marine Education in a World Without SeaWorld Since SeaWorld's bad press, education-based theme parks have been in decline. Is all ecological education headed the same way? 12 Sep 2018 | Hira Ahmad
To Tip or Not to Tip: D.C.'s Ballot Initiative 77 In the nation's capitol, tip wage versus minimum wage was a point of contention, as Ballot Initiative 77 passed by a narrow margin. 2 Jul 2018 | Kiara Goodwine
Opinion: Non-Disclosure Agreements and the Ethics of Paying for Silence Scandals involving powerful men like Donald Trump and Harvey Weinstein have trained the spotlight on the controversial non-disclosure agreement. 21 Mar 2018 | Jean Kazez
The Limited Value of Taxing University Endowments What are the broader implications of increasing taxes on private universities' endowments? 14 Nov 2017 | Nathaniel Reed
