A news media that wants to serve the public should focus coverage on issues and candidate qualifications.

Pharmaceutical company Mylan's choice to hike the costs of EpiPens has brought widespread debate on prescription drug prices.

The contradictions inherent in the Olympics make it difficult to reject or embrace completely.

On the Brock Turner case and the moral reasoning needed to understand the perspectives involved.

Couching racial differences in understanding alone does little to foster common ground. Here's how hip-hop could change that.

Donald Trump benefitted from an electoral system that struggles with crowded candidate fields. Instant Runoff Voting could change that.

Should public health experts use genetically modified mosquitoes to prevent a Zika epidemic?

Are politicians wrong to appropriate music for their own purposes? Your answer probably depends on how you read literature.

This post originally appeared September 29, 2015. In Part One of this two-part post on the moral importance of providing children with diverse books, I concluded that white authors need … Continue reading "Diversity in Children’s Books: A White Author’s Quandary (Part II)"

Fighting a wave of explicit online content, sites like Facebook grapple with the ethics of automated content moderation.

NASA's latest probe entered Jupiter's orbit late on July 4th, furthering debates on the value of space exploration.

This post originally appeared September 22, 2015. For the first time in census history, the majority of children living in the United States are now children of color. But the … Continue reading "Diversity in Children’s Books: A White Author’s Quandary (Part I)"

Reflecting on the recent Orlando mass shooting, and the role social media plays in both passing gun control legislation and sensationalizing tragedies.

The popular augmented reality app underscores tensions between the individual, technology and the public space.

Recent Supreme Court decisions have sparked controversy and set precedent for the ongoing abortion debate in America.

Recently in the United States, bathroom usage rights for transgender people have come to the political fore. As a part of Title IX protections against gender discrimination in federally funded … Continue reading "A Libertarian Perspective On Gendered Bathroom Segregation"

What skills does high office actually require?

Investigating the case of Julianne Snow, a five-year-old girl who chose to refuse medical treatment to a degenerative neurological disease known as Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. Do children have the capacity to consent to dying?

In 2000, nearly 415 million people used the Internet. By July 1, 2016, that number is estimated to grow to nearly 3.425 billion. That is about 46% of the world’s … Continue reading "Should You Have the Right to Be Forgotten?"

This is the second in a series on American History and the Ethics of Memory. This post originally appeared on September 15, 2015. Warner Madison doesn’t trust the police. He … Continue reading "Long Distance Information, Give Me Memphis, Tennessee"

This post originally appeared June 16, 2015. My last post discussed the bifurcated incentivization structure of capitalism: owners profit while workers become disempowered by working harder. In this post, I want … Continue reading "(How) Does Capitalism Incentivize? Part II"

This post originally appeared June 9, 2015. In my youth my parents would defend capitalism by saying that it incentivized work in contrast to communism. If you thought you could … Continue reading "(How) Does Capitalism Incentivize? Part I"