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Although there was much talk of returning to “normal” in 2022, COVID-19 continued to afflict people around the world, wreaking havoc on health-care systems…

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Lawmakers on the Emergency Board approve $10 million more for legal representation of indigent criminal defendants.

The website of The Philosophers Magazine.

A few years ago, Adam Azari was frustrated over how little he could do to alleviate suffering in the world with his modest income as a writer and caretaker for

Two brothers will walk 24 hours straight for charity on Dec. 20 to benefit the Fistula Foundation, a nonprofit focused on fighting obstetric fistula. Obstetric fistula is a hole between the birth cana...

The money comes from the Emergency Board, which meets between sessions of the full Legislature to be able to act quickly.

What’s to love about the Effective Altruism movement (beyond the fact that it is a bunch of people who are committed to working to make things better for others) is that it thinks about everybody worldwide equally when looking for problems to solve. What’s to love a little less is that, when it comes to solutions, it often looks to the individual working through donations rather than through policy and institutional change (Alex Trembath makes a similar point here).

Effective altruism has gained a wide following. In the fall of FTX, some critics see a need for rethinking how to put generosity into practice.