Wedding planning involves major conversations about finances – but certainly not the couple’s last.
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A researcher explains how couples can create a sense of ‘our money’ while keeping a sense of financial autonomy.
People in Beirut light candles in solidarity with Palestinians in Rafah on May 27, 2024.
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Why has the ICC indictment of Israeli and Hamas leaders drawn so much fire? Understanding the notion of moral equivalence might help explain why.
Al-Ghazali’s book ‘Alchemy of Happiness,’ held in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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In religious traditions, patience is more than waiting, or even more than enduring a hardship. But what does patience look like? And when should we not exercise patience?
A tourist on National Elephant Day in Thailand.
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Even self-proclaimed ethical tourism programs can widen economic gaps and harm communities they claim to protect. Here are a few steps you can take as an ethical tourist.
Protecting the planet for future children might mean having fewer children.
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You can donate to environmental charities and even purchase carbon offsets, but not having an additional child typically has a much greater impact.
Brain-computer interfaces have the potential to transform some people’s lives, but they raise a host of ethical issues, too.
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Brain-computer interface devices have the potential to boost users’ autonomy, especially for people who experience paralysis. But that comes with risks, as well.
Only one of these guys deserves to be in timeout.
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Questions about how to ethically train different kinds of pets depend on the nature of those animals’ inner lives and their abilities to learn.
Palestinians tend to the wounded after an Israeli strike hit a building next to Al-Aqsa Hospital in the Gaza Strip on Jan. 10, 2024.
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Just-war theory insists that civilians are not legitimate targets. However, civilian immunity does not provide blanket protection from harm.
The scene in the Bureij refugee camp following an Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip on Nov. 14, 2023.
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Proportionality requires that lives of civilians on both sides of a conflict must be treated with the same degree of respect.
Rep. George Santos on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 24, 2023.
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A political philosopher writes that voters may put up with some degree of deception from politicians, but they may not accept being lied to unnecessarily.
Social media is often used during times of conflict to spread fake news.
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A human rights scholar explains how social media users can take charge of what content comes into their feed and reduce the risk of receiving misinformation.
Medical students look at cadaver parts being used for demonstration.
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Most states permit government officials to donate unclaimed bodies to medical schools, with no legal requirement for prior approval from the deceased or their next of kin.
Freed U.S. nationals released in a prisoner swap deal between the U.S. and Iran disembark from an airplane at Fort Belvoir, Va., on Sept. 19, 2023.
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States sometimes choose to pay for the release of their citizens held hostage abroad – but there could be profound, long-term costs involved.
Some conservative commentators have labeled roles in the recent ‘Barbie’ movie as examples of ‘toxic feminity.’
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Examining the understandings of what ‘toxic femininity’ means to people can reveal insights about gender, power and the impact of language on health.
Technicians working to destroy the United States’ chemical weapons stockpile at the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot on June 8, 2023, in Pueblo, Colo.
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When it comes to chemical weapons, American condemnation, even if hypocritical, is still valuable.
The handling and disposition of human bodies raises all sorts of ethical and legal questions.
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The short answer: It’s complicated – and depends, in part, where you live.
Purchasing property as a primary home is considered more ethical than acquiring property for investment.
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A scholar who examines the impact of property ownership explains why purchasing a home comes with many moral obligations.
Which is it?
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A philosopher unpacks the ‘ethics of belief’ for an age awash in bad information.
Prisoners at a yard at the Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln, Neb.
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A scholar who has studied imprisonment explains why the promise of sentence reductions in return for organ donation raises ethical issues about whether inmates can ever consent freely.
Video footage of the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols may be key to any criminal trial.
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Jurors can perceive events in a video in different ways – one of which depends on how the evidence is presented in court, a media scholar explains.