Tag: life

Broken child welfare policies have undermined political systems and destroyed the planetary ecosystem.

Do we need, some observers of our fraying social fabric suggest, more people in public life noble enough to champion basic ethical norms?

Humanity must find ways to make itself more humane and less human.

Even for an old man like me, it’s a terrifying thing to watch humanity make a decision, however inchoate, to essentially commit suicide.

"She was mighty fine."

Have we been living in a futuristic science fiction novel through the most bizarre American century yet? Tom Engelhardt discusses the demobilization of the American people and the spectacle of the 2016 elections.

Just because animals are cognitively different from us, why is it people's belief that they have lesser moral value? Using them is the ultimate problem—it does not matter how well we treat them.