The Amber Guyger case treads familiar ground regarding the legitimacy of "Stand Your Ground" laws invoking proportionality, necessity, and self-defense. How do events like this challenge traditional justifications?

Seeking out moral advice from, and offering moral advice to, strangers in a public forum is nothing new. What has changed are the qualifications to claim moral expertise.

Continued political inactivity to confront the growing climate crisis may mean that participation in demonstration is not simply permissible, but may be morally obligatory.

The memeification of climate change protest shows us once again how comedy and tragedy are related. But there may be consequences to fighting the ongoing climate emergency with humor in a transitory medium.

Environmental ethics butts up against religious convictions: should climate change realities alter our beliefs about how to honor the dead?

Gillis's recent dismissal from SNL raises questions about free speech and the boundaries of offensive content.

A recent case highlights the conflict between paternalism and autonomy in the medical field. In what sense might one's decision to pursue an experimental treatment not be one's own?

A criminal record is an enormous obstacle to obtaining employment or housing. The strategy we choose for addressing this problem says a lot about our attitude toward the prospects of rehabilitation.

Does the transcript exonerate the president as his supporters have claimed? And what's the big deal if it doesn't?

Recent deregulation in the slaughterhouse will effectively mean no one is watching the watchmen. What does true oversight require?

The conflict regarding the Djap Wurrung trees in western Victoria presents an opportunity to redress longstanding injustice.

How should we understand the relation between law and morality? And what might this answer mean for human rights?

The recent SpaceIL mishap prompts reflection on the unregulated nature of space. Why should we be concerned?

The recent theft of a seven-million dollar golden toilet named America is chock-full of symbolism.

When corporations express ideological positions can we truly separate what it is to be a patron from what it is to be a supporter?

Brand-building is taking on the guise of genuine openness. What's the harm? How should we respond when vulnerability obscures more than it reveals?

Are fines an appropriate punishment when the wealthy attempt to purchase social, political, and economic advantage at others' expense?

A California law aims to address implicit bias, but recent research suggests that current training has little ability to change behavior.

Do we have an obligation to abstain from child-bearing given the growing climate crisis?

Is morality to be found in abstracted and universalizable concepts and theories, or in the subjective, situatedness of characters rooted in their earthly contexts? What can literature tell us about our moral universe?

Our forensic methods aren't as objective as we assume, and the role prejudice is allowed to play undermines the legitimacy of our criminal justice system.

Disagreement about our moral duties and obligations is inevitable. But this does not show that morality is a matter of opinion or that ethics is subjective.

The increasing trend of subjective reporting in journalism blurs the distinction between fact and opinion and threatens to undermine the political process.

What is the moral and legal value of contractual promises of non-disclosure? Is it ever ethical to break our word?