More than any president before him, Barack Obama pledged to change the political culture that has fueled the influence of lobbyists. But ...

Alice C. Linsley A difficult aspect of ethical thinking is obtaining critical distance from our own beliefs and recognizing the possib...

Erika Christakis, a house parent at Harvard and an academic, thinks there is nothing wrong with pornography so long as one can find an “...

The Mercury News website reports that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a file today (February 9, 2012) that it kept on Ap...

MercatorNet has a "creative commons" republication policy - nearly all of our articles may be reproduced so long as the original...

US researchers violated ethical boundaries when they deliberately infected Guatemalan prisoners, mental health patients and prostitutes wit...

Last year at this time the Catholic Church was licking its wounds after its biggest public relations shellacking in many years. Newspaper c...

London burns after riots Why should anyone be surprised at the rioters when we've been saying for decades there is no right or ...

Matthew O'Brien and Robert C. Koons A notion of “social practice” should guide the way we think about morality and politics. The fi...

Nobody is perfect. Anybody can be weak when the opportunity presents itself. Even habitual offenders against prevailing mores can be treate...

Rollen Frederick Stewart in many ways personifies the disconnect between religious piety and true Christian discipleship.  His may be an ext...

"Schools need to teach about orgasms" says NEA to UN By Lauren Funk NEW YORK, March 3 (C-FAM) Graphic sex education for youth ...

“You can’t legislate morality” has become a common turn of phrase. The truth, however, is that every law and regulation that is proposed, pa...

Ron Robins It is strange that many Western charities still invest their funds in companies whose activities create the very difficulties t...

Alice C. Linsley "As in the Heavens, so on Earth": that is something that tribal peoples understand, but it is lost wisdom to th...

More Americans are poor, but fewer of them are suffering the effects of crime, an intriguing fact for social scientists. The US Census Bur...

The massive rally on the mall of Washington over the weekend has the media in a tangle. It was larger and more peaceful and more positive an...

By Ron Robins, Founder & Analyst - Investing for the Soul The rising price of gold stands as the ethical barometer of the mismanagemen...

By Ron Robins, MBA How did the developed world economies come to be in such a mess? It seems that revisions to key US statistics over the ...

A national review of bioethics laws in France still has not reached a resolution. The current law dates back to 2004 and the government cond...