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Is understanding the current crisis in the Middle East simply a matter of determining who is right and who is wrong?

Without personally committing to treating others equitably, it becomes all too easy to claim our own rights at their expense.

When does moral outrage cross the line from useful to harmful? And how can we focus this emotion constructively?

Prejudging others based on their physical or other characteristics comes quite naturally. How can we overcome our racial and ethnic biases?

Has the world not gone terribly wrong in emphasizing monetary value over moral conviction, cash over right principles, assets over human worth?

For centuries, Africa has suffered at the hands of opportunists seeking to enrich themselves at the continent’s expense, with far-reaching results.

The importance of our relationship with nature is coming into increasingly sharp focus, with a little help from a scaly mammal.

Though it’s the world’s dominant economic system, capitalism’s excesses are drawing increasing criticism.

Avoiding another Hiroshima begins with you and me.

How and why do people convince themselves to view others as less than human? Vision reviews David Livingstone Smith’s On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It.

Vision reviews Vexed: Ethics Beyond Political Tribes, in which author James Mumford proposes a way out of the political trenches that today divide the world into “sides.”

What’s the origin of algorithms? And what might their nature tell us about our own nature?

Researchers and policy makers around the world struggle to lead human germ-line editing into the future.

Stanford neuroscientist William B. Hurlbut talks about his dealings with the Chinese researcher who created the world’s first gene-edited babies, and about the implications of that experiment.

We all live in a world of corruption, which sounds like unsupportable and irresponsible hyperbole until one realizes its extent.

Why does a crowd of witnesses so rarely intervene to help a person who is obviously in trouble? And what does it take to be the person who does?

Insight Video: Is it possible to be in politics without becoming tainted by political corruption?

The mining industry may seem an unlikely place to find practical examples of the Golden Rule in action.

Are we really as good as we like to think we are? For that matter, are other people as bad as we tend to think they are?