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 ...

Social media and the blogosphere have been awash for weeks with outrage that university chancellors and presidents are urging their faculty and students to conduct campus debates in a civil manner.

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?: ...

In today's America, incivility is on prominent display: in the schools, where bullying is pervasive; in the workplace, where an increasing number are more stressed out by co-workers than their jobs; ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...