Artificial intelligence might not seem like an obvious focus for a new pope taking over the world’s largest Christian church. AI is developing faster than most people can keep track. The church ...

In the age of MAGA, ideological lines that once distinguished left from right have blurred. Republicans who said they were willing to die for the market now support a president who tells the ...

Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. Maximilian Kolbe was a Polish priest and Franciscan friar who was arrested by the Gestapo in 1941 ...

The world is full of highly intelligent, impressively accomplished and status-aware people whose greatest ambitions seem to start and stop with themselves. For Rutger Bregman, those people represent ...

Co-written by Tyler VanderWeele and Jennifer Wortham. Our moral understanding of right and wrong, and good and evil, is fundamental to who we are. Such understanding guides our actions and evaluations ...

Democrats are fighting tooth and nail to stop Texas lawmakers' plan to redraw the state's congressional map, but critics, including one prominent member of their own party, say they don't exactly hold ...

Preface -- Prologue : Why does a philosopher study dolphins? -- 1. Dolphins : the philosophical questions -- 2. The anatomy and physiology of living in the water -- 3. Do dolphins think and feel? -- 4 ...

Many people who dedicate their lives to creating healthier and safer communities—educators, healthcare workers, social workers, community organizers, advocates, and volunteers—carry extraordinary ...