It seems like our country and the world today are rife with polarized opinions. Most of our communication happens digitally, and the lack of a physical presence makes it all too easy to angrily ...

MANHATTAN, KANSAS -- A look at the past may help ordinary people improve civility, according to Kansas State University's Timothy J. Shaffer, co-editor/author of the book, "A Crisis of Civility?: ...

Considering the examples above, each is enough to make you scream and wonder how we got to this place. However, taking them collectively becomes an even harder pill to swallow because they stem from ...

When someone in power praises the principle of free speech, it’s wise to be on the lookout for weasel words. The phrase “I favor constructive criticism,” is weaseling. So is, “You can express your ...

Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s weekly politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. And, just to make this as complicated as possible, let’s try to answer those questions as they pertain ...

Respect and civility are not just social mores in Japan—they’re built into the structure of the language(Tadamasa Taniguchi/ Getty Images) Something those ‘most ...

My contribution to my family’s Thanksgiving dinner this year in Minnesota was to bring wine. I brought Michigan wine, explaining that this was the same wine that then President Gerald Ford served at a ...

(MENAFN- EIN Presswire) Newsweek and the Stubblefield Institute for Civil Political Communications accepting nominations for national Civility Awards. “We are pleased that Newsweek has chosen to ...

In a recent letter to The Advocate published Sept. 9, a writer wrongfully claimed that anyone who voted for our current president condones racism, misogyny and extreme hatred, and is “partly ...

“Why Civility?” That’s the topic of an essay contest and kids’ drawing contest that we’re launching as part of the Community Civility Counts campaign unveiled last week in Gary. The campaign, a ...