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- Rethinking the Purpose of the Land Acknowledgment
Land acknowledgement can serve its purpose of revealing truth and initiating healing when the meaning of land, from an Indigenous perspective, is clear.
Everyday men and women put their lives on the line to protect the freedom we often take for granted. Yet when their service ends, they can return home with moral injury, the unseen psychological and spiritual burdens they are left to carry alone in silence.
- An AI Ethics Case Study
Assessing the creation of a posthumous AI and the complexities of consent.
- Register and Join Us for a Series of Four Webinars
Upcoming webinars will address four themes from the recent encyclical: AI and education, AI and labor, AI and consciousness, and disarming AI.
How does media representation of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) women affect their democratic participation? More specifically, what are the mechanisms by which representation either enables or forecloses participation, and how can the negative cycle be broken?
- A new report zooms in on complexity in California.
When information scarcity and water scarcity meet, oversimplifications are likely to lead to worse outcomes for both opponents and proponents of data center development.
There are 12 million Americans who are caring for loved ones suffering from dementia. Caring for a loved one with dementia is ethically complex because the caregiver is left to balance between their own needs and the wishes of the loved one they are caring for.
What happens when corporate money enters the political sphere? The stakes are especially high today as debates about money's influence on democracy dominate headlines and shape public policy.
The Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization returned abortion policy to the states, creating a patchwork of total bans and gestational limits. Extremes in abortion policy raise serious ethical concerns, but a partial framework with clear gestational limits and essential exceptions offers a more balanced approach that better supports justice and the common good.
Rebranded as “prediction markets”—platforms where people trade on the likelihood of future events—this form of betting has moved beyond sports into elections, climate disasters, and geopolitical conflicts.