This idea of mistake-proofing has been around for 60 years within Japanese manufacturing, where it’s called poka-yoke. We can apply this idea to Christian morality, where it’s glaringly absent.

The scathing report, commissioned by the American Psychological Association, says the C.I.A. used prominent outside psychologists to quell internal objections. By James Risen.

Those pop-pop-pops you heard in Philly on July 4 may not have been fireworks. But there are ways to bring the murder rate and police brutality down at the same time.

Opening the Debate: Peter Singer. Responding: Daron Acemoglu, Angus Deaton, Jennifer Rubenstein, Larissa MacFarquhar, Leila Janah, Emma Saunders-Hastings, Rob Reich, Paul Brest, Iason Gabriel, András Miklós, Catherine Tumber. Reply: Peter Singer.

Many veterans are suffering from a condition similar to, but distinct from, PTSD: moral injury, in which the ethical transgressions of war can leave service members traumatized. By Maggie Puniewska.

They have big brains, complex social structures, rich emotional lives -- how can we still hold them captive?

Healthy people given the serotonin-enhancing antidepressant citalopram were willing to pay almost twice as much to prevent harm to themselves or others than those given placebo drugs in a moral decision-making experiment...

As the dreams of Silicon Valley fill our world, could the dowdy historian Arnold Toynbee help prevent a nightmare? By Ian Beacock.

The power of the “Holocaust” as a concept has all but obliterated other aspects of the crimes of the Nazis and the sufferings of their victims and driven the history of the concentration camps from cultural memory. By Richard J. Evans.

You don’t have to be a monster or a madman to dehumanise others. You just have to be an ordinary human being. By David Livingstone Smith. (2014)

Polled American men and women almost agreed on the issue of sex outside wedlock, but disagreed on the morality of pornography.

Even his conservative colleagues John Roberts and Samuel Alito thought this was odd.

The opposition in the effort to make sure that American interrogators never inflict severe pain or mental anguish on prisoners again

William Langewiesche dissects the murder of four Iraqi prisoners, the military's response, and how one warrior fought to become a better man.

America failed to stop prisoner abuse after 9/11–and failed to punish the abusers. Will we at least take this small step toward making future torture less likely? By Conor Friedersdorf.

The decision will prohibit most research on captive animals.

Death brings out the worst in the justices.

Was one of psychology’s most controversial studies about individual fallibility or broken institutions?

Experts Are Trying to Make Machines Be “Moral.” By Coby McDonald

Since Germany and Israel established diplomatic ties 50 years ago this month, the relationship has become a solid one. But historic guilt is no longer adequate to compel Germany to support Israel’s wrongheaded policies – especially when those policies are victimizing another group, the Palestinians.