Western New Mexico University's Board of Regents approved the severance package for Joseph Shepard after a state audit highlighted $364,000 in "wasteful" and "improper" spending.
The House Ethics Committee's findings, combined with Gaetz's lack of relevant experience, again raise the question of why Donald Trump picked him for attorney general.
Trump's pick for attorney general is manifestly unqualified for the job, even without considering the salacious details of the ethics charges against him.
The nominee for attorney general passes the Trump loyalty test, but he lacks relevant experience and has repeatedly demonstrated poor judgment.
Season 2, Episode 5 Podcasts
How restrictions on telemedicine are forcing doctors to choose between following the law and obeying their ethical obligations.
The proposals include term limits for Supreme Court justices, a binding ethics code, and a constitutional amendment limiting the president's' immunity from prosecution. All 3 are potentially good ideas. But devil is in details.
Dennis Pratt and Gene Epstein debate the efficacy of ethical and consequentialist arguments for libertarianism.
State Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Parker cited the Bible to explain why.
Ethics allegations have been raised against Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Sonia Sotomayor. Both sides have retreated into whataboutism.
Asked about people in general, respondents perceive moral decline. But when asked about specific acts or people in their personal worlds, the data tell a different story.
Plus: RIP Daniel Ellsberg, the Pioneers of Capitalism, and more...
The thinker's views of human sympathy, beneficence, justice, and the division of labor still resonate.
The botched pursuit of the Russiagate story illustrates how the media shed credibility.
Plus: Supreme Court won't consider right of fetus to bring lawsuit, Biden's bid to reclassify gig workers, and more...
Total human neurons outweigh all farmed animals by a factor of 30–1.
The future of techno-animism in a world filled with machine intelligence.
The New York Times and The Washington Post shamed the recipient of a pig heart transplant for committing a crime 35 years ago.
Opposed by LGBT and pro-choice advocacy groups, the measure allows doctors to refuse to perform treatments on moral grounds
The book, which garnered a $4 million deal and touted Cuomo's purported pandemic-handling competence, may have gotten the governor into hot water.
In new studies, many people "reported that morally good beliefs require less evidence to be justified, and that, in some circumstances, a morally good belief can be justified even in the absence of sufficient evidence."
Volunteers would earn cash for the risks they take on our behalf.
We need to leave ourselves room for making good when we inevitably convict the wrong people.
A fierce, but friendly, antagonist in various bioethical controversies
Plus: Oakland decriminalizes mushrooms, and the ethics of "doxxing"
A parade of nearly comical ethics scandals is overwhelming his record as a deregulator.
What's immoral is telling people they can't get paid for it.
Smaller government has the possibility to be more honest government.
A amendment from Democrats says no state money can go to defending the law in court.
Being equally diseased, disabled, and dead is only fair, says New York magazine.
Porn performers are accusing Rashida Jones and other Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On producers of a host of unethical and exploitative practices.
Everyone should be highly skeptical of state-sponsored eugenics.
The incoming president's business entanglements are going to be a problem.
What algorithms will actually save the most lives in the long run?
There's a norm, people! A norm!
The weekend reactions are both a reminder and a preview of how Clinton handles a scandal.
Over the past century, the prospects and circumstances of most of humanity have spectacularly improved
Donald Trump and the $6 million in contributions to veterans groups.
Merely labeling an attitude as moral increases its strength, reports new study
My fellow Americans should not get to vote on what enhancements I might want
Why a ban on the development of lethal autonomous weapons now is premature.
Lawmakers could get immunity from crimes if they ask for "informal opinions" first.
Not all "female genital mutilation" is destructive, they say, with some procedures no more problematic than male circumcision.
Taleb's anti-GMO precautionary nonsense is unethical and harms poor people
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