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 ...

We have just celebrated 247 years of American independence — though it’s no secret that the United States has suffered an erosion of democratic norms and institutions in recent years. This is ...

It’s beyond dispute: Donald Trump won’t go down in history as a model of civility. Examples of his bad manners abound. When he gave his first inaugural speech, the president craftily avoided any nod ...

During his inauguration address on Jan. 21, 2021, Joe Biden pledged to end the country’s “uncivil war,” which had been raging during the four years of Trump’s presidency. Especially when it came to ...

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 ...

Newsweek and the Stubblefield Institute for Civil Political Communications announced today the two organizations will collaborate this year around a nationwide search for people who are leading by ...

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 ...

There’s no mistaking the fact that we are in the middle of a hot general election season that only seems to be getting hotter. When it comes to civility, we can see a lot of bad examples from those ...

Maurizio Valsania does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...