Ethics

The Supreme Court Justice talks with David Remnick about the decline in public trust and questions about the Court’s ethics code, and how Justices get along in a very partisan era.

Washington finally rediscovers how to give a grifting congressman the boot.

A year after OpenAI released ChatGPT, the chatbot is surprisingly good at parroting human values. It may be as ethical as it’s going to get.

Under the Court’s new rules, the Justices appear not to have made any mistakes.

The Court’s system of self-policing is in question as revelations about Thomas’s gifts lead the Senate to escalate its investigation into Supreme Court ethics.

In “I Have Some Questions for You,” Rebecca Makkai depicts the charms of the murder podcast while evading its flaws.

Once you start to think in this way, you quickly realize that even the simplest kidnapping entails traversing an ethical minefield.

Behind closed doors, Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife is working with many groups directly involved in controversial cases before the Court.

With more and more students becoming dorm-room C.E.O.s, three professors cooked up an ethics class for the coding set.

The Maryland lawmaker on yet another unprecedented moment in our history. Plus, Atul Gawande on pandemic recovery, and the actor Daniel Kaluuya on “Judas and the Black Messiah.”

At artificial-intelligence conferences, researchers are increasingly alarmed by what they see.

Mark Zuckerberg has outsourced crucial decisions about content moderation to a new body called the Oversight Board. Now it must decide whether Donald Trump can ever get back on the platform.

The soon-to-retire executive editor defends the idea of journalistic objectivity. “It’s not neutrality, it’s not both-sides-ism, it’s not so-called balance,” he says.

Trump’s departure will prompt cries of relief in many parts of the country, but there is now vital work to be done.

Ultima IV was a pioneer in forcing players to grapple with morality.

A bioethics expert reflects on the importance of institutions talking through the implications of their decisions.

Three years ago, the congressman Mark Meadows sold land in Colorado to a Christian nonprofit. Why didn’t he disclose the sale?

The e-mail startup isn’t the only company learning that a product can be powerful and elegant without being good.

The philosopher’s Instagram has become both an experiment in visualizing ethics and a counterpoint to status-conscious social media.