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The McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society is excited to highlight our graduating Honors Program students and the completion of their theses.

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Lethal autonomous weapons — characterized by their ability to select and engage targets without further human intervention once activated — are thought to have been first deployed in Libya in 2020…

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Although housing activists argue that housing is a human right, the current U.S. economic climate and the real estate market are putting that “right” increasingly out of reach, especially for…

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The Bay Area is the birthplace of the modern environmental conservation movement. The natural beauty of the region is, in large part, the direct legacy of the first generation of environmental…

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While physical borders are the most obvious sites of U.S. immigration policy issues, Ananya Karthik tackles the less visible technologies that help shape immigration enforcement. Her Ethics in…