The Troubling Practice of Turning Semi-Trailers Into Jails
Facing a shortage of space for inmates, Missouri's Greene County Jail opted to build an insta-prison in the parking lot. Is that OK?
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Ethics
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Do Cable News Networks Have an Obligation to Rebroadcast September 11th Footage?
MSNBC is discontinuing its annual tradition of replaying the network's breaking 9/11 coverage. Is that the best decision?
The Skewed Ethical Universe of the Terrorist
New research finds their moral reasoning resembles that of certain dementia victims.
Do Ethics Have a Place in Business Schools?
Research tends to show that business school tanks ethical and moral standards. But a generational shift is offering new hope.
You Are What You Read
How the literary genres you prefer reveal—or shape—your sense of what is ethical.
Trump Is Hiring Lobbyists and the Office of Government Ethics Is Being Kept in the Dark
In one case, an official working on energy regulation recently lobbied for oil and coal companies — but the White…
Trump’s Watered-Down Ethics Rules Let a Lobbyist Help Run an Agency He Lobbied
President Trump’s executive order on ethics also cites a section of the law that doesn’t even exist. By…
On Moral Issues, Liberals Ponder and Conservatives Pounce
New research suggests people on the left and right make ethical decisions in very different ways. By Tom…
The Murky Ethics of Driverless Cars
A new study explores a moral dilemma facing the creators of self-driving vehicles: In an accident, whose lives…
Hook, Line, and Thinker
New research suggests that fish are smarter and more sentient than we ever knew — presenting a fascinating, and urgent, ethical conundrum.