Sixty-one percent of Americans say the U.S. should be a moral leader, but only 39% believe it currently is—down from 60% in ...

Commissioned by NPR in partnership with Ipsos, the poll also highlights sharp partisan divides on key foreign policy issues.

Digital disruption and the climate crisis are often framed as economic or social challenges. But they force crucial moral ...

In this final installment of the series, we’ll first look at the philosophical problem with vague laws and then undertake a ...

New research conducted in Portugal offers insight into the psychological roots of political ideology. The findings suggest ...

Note: This article contains mention of violence, including violence against children. We’re publishing this piece alongside an essay by former Navy SEAL and emergency physician Daniel Barkhuff, “How ...

1 Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Technical University Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany 2 Department of Special Education, University of Education Winneba, Winneba, Ghana Introduction: Moral ...

For most of the last few centuries, advances in scientific understanding have seemed to undermine arguments for the existence of God. Physical phenomena ascribed to a deity have been discovered to ...

When my two sons, now young adults, were in elementary school, on some days my wife and I were sure they were lying with completely straight faces when we interrogated them about the status of ...

Credit: Getty Images Although it is not a formal psychiatric diagnosis, moral injury can have deep effects on the mental health of veterans. Moral injury – a distinct condition from post-traumatic ...

It started with an innocent mistake. Texas entrepreneur Chris Bentley had founded a company to buy drilling rights for oil and gas. He realized that a batch of letters he’d sent to landowners, ...

For thousands of years, the view that only rulers conferred rights or privileges on everyone else was taken for granted in traditional societies around the world. In the ancient empires of Babylonia, ...