There are those who question the idea of debt forgiveness and call it unfair to those who never took out student debt or already paid it off. As an ethicist who studies the morality of debt, I see merit in the question: Should student debt be canceled? 

The Trump administration is continuing its efforts to keep Central American asylum seekers away from the United States’ border.

There is no doubt that young people in South Africa face a myriad of problems: high unemployment, poor educational outcomes, various forms of poverty, and less than ideal mental and physical health, including high rates of HIV.

As the crisis over the water in Flint, Michigan, rolls on, we’re learning more and more about the irresponsibility and callousness of officials and politicians in charge.

Why are many people – including the militiamen occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon – angry that the federal government owns almost half of the land in the American West? We consulted two experts on public lands and natural resources about the longstanding controversies over federal control of public lands.

The seizure of a Malheur National Wildlife Refuge building in southeastern Oregon by armed and self-styled “constitutionalists” was disturbing. To many it is viewed as a dangerous escalation in a long, admittedly heated and passionate but rarely violent, discussion of federal or public land management in the western United States.

These days it’s not unusual for someone on the way to work to receive a text message from her employer saying she’s not needed right then.