Peter Singer

A Cana­di­an’s fight for the right to die could pro­vide an in­ter­na­tion­al prece­dent in the case for as­sist­ed sui­cide.

We should think of the size of the hu­man pop­u­la­tion not just in terms of num­bers, but also in terms of its mass.

There’s a need to find a way to max­imise the tru­ly amaz­ing po­ten­tial of the in­ter­net, while prop­er­ly re­ward­ing cre­ators.

A ban on bat­tery cages for hens that was adopt­ed in 1999 has fi­nal­ly been im­ple­ment­ed through­out the Eu­ro­pean Union.

‘Cig­a­rettes, not guns or bombs, are the dead­liest ar­ti­facts in the his­to­ry of civil­i­sa­tion.’

In an ef­fort to in­crease hap­pi­ness among its peo­ple, Bhutan stud­ies, quan­ti­fies, and de­fines what it means to be hap­py.

Two movies re­leased this month promise to shed a dif­fer­ent light on the is­sue of our re­la­tion­ship with the great apes.

Re­duc­ing the suf­fer­ing of all crea­tures is tru­ly a mark of a civilised so­ci­ety.

A new book tries to ex­plain how it may be pos­si­ble to view moral judge­ments as ob­jec­tive truths.

Fol­low­ing the loss of life caused by Japan’s tsuna­mi, a small non­prof­it or­gan­i­sa­tion is plan­ning ahead in In­done­sia.