Over the past quarter century, few countries have commanded as much sustained attention from U.S. foreign policy officials as ...

As humans increasingly appear in orcas' marine neighborhoods, the whales could be interested in learning about us: our ...

Recent economic studies confirm, encouragingly, that a career in medicine tends to attract people of above-average altruism and conscientiousness, as well as ability.

When I say I'm raising my puppy to be a service dog and will give him away, people always ask me how I could do that? The ...

Realizing that, with President Trump just turning 79 and completing his second term at 82, he deserves credit for living his ...

‘Effective altruism’ isn’t as newfangled as it seems Times have changed since the days of Carnegie and Rockefeller, but much in philanthropy has remained the same ...

Altruism may exist in honey bees, which is inherited through their mothers: study A new study suggests not only that honey bees can be altruistic, but that it is a maternal genetic trait ...

A Facebook billionaire is using a government loophole to quietly place followers of the controversial “effective altruism” movement in key national security roles in the Biden administration ...

Altruism is not a government program. Compelled sacrifice is a very real possibility when the people have granted authority to a representative government, but there is no duty-bound obligation to ...

Another reason that it can be hard to be altruistic right now is because people’s basic needs aren’t being met. So people don ...

Had effective altruism’s “consequentialist” bent — crudely, the idea that the ends justify the means — driven Bankman-Fried to extreme risk in the service of some eventual greater good?

Effective altruism has captivated Silicon Valley personalities like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, but the philosophy's stature has taken a big hit.