Three Moral Issues of Health Care
With an issue like health, deeply personal but of great public concern, the faith community has a unique and important role to play: to define and raise the moral issues that lay just beneath the policy debate.
With an issue like health, deeply personal but of great public concern, the faith community has a unique and important role to play: to define and raise the moral issues that lay just beneath the policy debate.
Robert Teitelman | Posted 07.24.2009 | Business
The real-life goal of management is to create wealth. The only MBA oath that makes sense should resemble that of doctors: do no harm.
Jim Lichtman | Posted 07.12.2009 | Entertainment
Manny Ramirez is gone, suspended for 50 regular season games for testing positive for a banned substance, but should he be allowed to play in this year's All-Star Game?
Tom Morris | Posted 07.06.2009 | Business
The core commitments of business ethics aren't complicated in principle. But their application in the real world demands nuance, sophistication, hard thought, wisdom, skill, and consistency.
Shahid Buttar | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics
The false national consensus that national security should trump constitutional protections for liberty and privacy exemplifies such collusion today.
Tom Morris | Posted 06.25.2009 | Media
I was invited to help the people in my Twitter stream appreciate and honor the spirit of this Memorial Day by commenting briefly on the concept of service.
Melanie Sloan | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics
How many more stories must appear before Rep. Murtha is forced from his perch as chairman of Defense Appropriations and denied further opportunity to feather his own nest?
Brian Whetten | Posted 06.13.2009 | Business
If we wish to create meaningful ethical reform in business, it requires teaching students practical, concrete, psychological tools.
Craig Newmark | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics
Bob Bauer's work is of major importance, reminding us that lobbying often is in the public interest or is just about someone getting a fair shake for their clients.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.04.2009 | Politics
The two most successful modern presidential campaign gurus sparred on Monday night on topics ranging from the quality of each other's books to the siz...
Jim Lichtman | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics
When it comes to responsibility and openness, how is Mr. Obama doing? Is he working to restore the trust and confidence of the American people?
Reproductive Justice | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics
Any gay student at Grandfield High School has been taught a dubious lesson. They have learned they better keep quiet until they are old enough to leave town.
Robert Rose | Posted 05.26.2009 | Style
What is truly important in human life consists precisely of those things which cannot be measured; love, decency, joy, all the great virtues and passions.
Tom Morris | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics
How can there be a general ethos of solid and pervasive moral standards once more? We need good laws, and effective regulation. We need to restore an overall moral culture of accountability.
Chip Berlet | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics
==Panel: Conference on World Affairs in Boulder== "Ethics in Government: LOL" I have a lawyer friend with a consulting business teaching government ...
Christine Hassler | Posted 05.08.2009 | Living
This question hit me last week after I side-swiped a parked car while pulling into my driveway. I actually didn't realize what I had done until I got ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics
Calculated Risk has some great highlights of Bill Moyers interview with University of Missouri professor William K. Black that are worth reading. Her...
Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 04.27.2009 | Living
How can it be that emotional trauma is so profoundly context-dependent and, at the same time, is built into our existence itself?
Jim Lichtman | Posted 04.20.2009 | Politics
If ever there was a need for ethical values it is now... more than ever.
Dave Astor | Posted 04.19.2009 | Comedy
The message for petty thieves: all the zeros in $165,000,000 add up to two (as in two-tier justice).
Kay Koplovitz | Posted 04.17.2009 | Business
I say let's require ethics courses in B-schools. For my money, late is better than never. It's time we said, Gordon Gekko's need not apply.
Paul Snyder | Posted 04.13.2009 | Entertainment
There has been a lot of press about audiences seeing the movie more than once, but that would really only reward aesthetes and those who found the basic plot incomprehensible the first time.
Michael Eisen | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics
This conflation of science and scientists is offensive and ignorant. In my experience, no one has thought about the moral side of scientific issues more deeply than scientists.
Michael Rugnetta | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics
We no longer have the luxury of debating the profound but ultimately unanswerable questions surrounding the dignity of the embryo. The research is proceeding whether we like it or not.
Leighann Lord | Posted 03.26.2009 | Comedy
Presidents Lincoln and Obama notwithstanding, aren't we supposed to grade Illinois politicians on a curve? They get an asterisk next to their names like steroid-filled baseball players.
Jim Wallis | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics