That Nashville Waffle House shooting — when four people were killed after a gunman opened fire with an assault weapon in 2018 — provides the framework for Jonathan Metzl's "What We've Become: Living ...

A new study shows that moral arguments appealing to care and fairness can persuade both liberals and conservatives in the United States. By contrast, arguments grounded in the "binding" moral ...

In A Nutshell Researchers tested two types of moral arguments on 375 Americans: one focused on preventing harm and ensuring ...

Abortion hasn’t played a big role in the presidential election this time around, despite the high stakes involved. Apparently both sides have decided it’s not in their interest to campaign on the ...

In recent months, the notion of making moral arguments in favor of a range of policy goals has been quite visible in the public conversation. This has made me think more carefully about the very ...

With an increasing number of states almost entirely banning abortion if the Supreme Court ends the Roe era, supporters of reproductive freedom and justice need to innovate politically and bring on ...

Does originalism need a moral defense? In his newly published Vaughan Lecture, Joel Alicea argues that it does: Justifying a constitutional methodology requires arguing that judges ought to employ ...

Not long ago, we lost a voice who spent his life insisting that it did. Alasdair MacIntyre, the Scottish philosopher who gave us "After Virtue," died May 21 at the age of 96. He spent decades ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. This reader thinks so: Whenever I hear anti-abortion rhetoric that ...

With an increasing number of states almost entirely banning abortion if the Supreme Court ends the Roe era, supporters of reproductive freedom and justice need to innovate politically and bring on ...