This is what happens when you defund Ebola prevention
One of the worst ever Ebola outbreaks is underway. Blame foreign aid cuts.
The shocking death toll of cars in poor countries
Road deaths are one of the world’s biggest public health crises — and the burden falls overwhelmingly on low- and…
How to make the most important choice of your life
You have 80,000 hours in your career. How will you spend them?
Why we need a Memorial Day for civilian victims of war
America mourns its war dead on Memorial Day — but not the civilians killed by American weapons in Iran, Gaza,…
You can do everything right and things can still go wrong. “Moral luck” is a way to live with that.
Philosophers Bernard Williams and Susan Wolf offer a helpful way to think about harm and self-blame, including in parenting.
Climate change’s worst-case scenario is officially canceled
Climate scientists just retired the worst-case scenario that drove 15 years of “uninhabitable Earth” coverage. The future left is still…
What we see when we look into the eyes of a bird
Science fiction novelist Ray Nayler, author of Mountain in the Sea, talks about his novel Palaces of the Crow and…
This animal kills 100,000 people a year. Why can’t we stop it?
For comparison, sharks kill about six.
No one likes how animals are treated on factory farms. But no one wants to stop eating them.
The paradox at the heart of American meat consumption and animal welfare, explained.
An HIV-free generation is closer than you think
Foreign aid cuts are endangering the possibility of an HIV-free generation.