Should you feel guilty for killing the bugs in your house?
Insects may feel pain. Do you have a moral duty to protect them from harm?
I asked a billionaire about his environmental philanthropy. It didn’t go well.
High net-worth individuals like Jeff Bezos and Panthera co-founder Tom Kaplan use charity to support environmental causes, yet they are…
The pope takes on AI
Why the Catholic Church is concerned about Big Tech.
The most underrated sites at our national parks — according to a guy who’s seen them all
There are more than 400 National Park Service sites. Here are some of the hidden gems.
How to make the most important choice of your life
You have 80,000 hours in your career. How will you spend them?
Renewable energy just broke a 100-year-old streak
In 2025, renewables produced more of the world’s electricity than coal for the first time since 1919. Solar alone met…
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.
How clips ate the internet
Is all content doomed to be clipped now? The Verge’s Mia Sato explains.
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…