Assignment Task:
Topic: Choose an issue in the news that you think has an important moral or ethical component and find a good article about this issue. This shouldn't be difficult to do, as there are numerous legal, political, racial, economic, environmental, and other kinds of contested issues that are constantly in the news, each of which may raise moral and ethical questions.
Make sure your article is from a reputable news source. The New York Times, the Boston Globe, or the Washington Post would be good choices, but you may choose another if you are confident on the quality of the source. In your bibliography, include a link to the article you chose in your paper.
In your paper, analyze the issue you have chosen and construct a moral or ethical argument about it using perspectives we have explored in our course. You may draw on any of the thinkers or authors we have looked at this semester to make your argument, and you may certainly rely on more than one.