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A letter from July 29 indicated that the social issues of gay marriage and abortion are examples of a downward, sliding scale of morality by giving, in their words, “laughable and outlandish” examples ...

Artificial intelligence is at a turning point. We are at a decision point where we must consider the implications of AI, or else risk creating a world where AI makes choices that impact all of us ...

Political philosophers have long recognized the paradoxical connection between increased safety and greater perceptions of evil. The "Tocqueville paradox," named after the nineteenth-century French ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Majority of Kenyans on social media have found fault with a Bill sponsored by Garissa Town ...

Thank heaven for little girls. So sang French actor Maurice Chevalier in a famous song celebrating “their little eyes so helpless and appealing” and the fact that “they grow up in the most delightful ...

Majority of Kenyans on social media have found fault with a Bill sponsored by Garissa Town MP Aden Duale that seeks to criminalise the publication of pornographic material by amending the Computer ...

Whether it was a riot at a petrol station in Königsdorf, an attack on a taxi driver in Essenbach or an attack on a pregnant woman in Marktredwitz, Münchberg near Hof, courageous people were once again ...