Civil discourse is preferable to the alternatives of coerced silence and violence. Coerced silence means that one side has exercised power to end conversation—to say, in effect, there is no point in ...

Civil discourse refers broadly to discussions in which people genuinely try to understand one another, experts said. Some expert tips for engaging in civil discourse include setting clear expectations ...

Amid concerns about academic freedom and rising political polarization on college campuses across the country, leaders at Duke and other universities have adopted new rhetoric to prioritize ...

Happy Friday, and welcome to another roundup of the week’s news about the judiciary. This week, the group Speak Up for Justice held another remote event for lawyers about the rule of law, where former ...

Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of Civil Discourse, a column in which columnists Helen Nguyen and Aidan Quealy share their perspectives on a political story or event covered by The ...

The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set news policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com Lindsey Galvao, a ...

In a world marked by nearly ubiquitous technology use, rapid information flows, and shifting norms of communication, cultivating civil discourse in schools has never been more important. Civil ...

The Civil Discourse Fellows program — run by Ohio State’s Center for Ethics and Human Values — held a forum titled “Is a Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Still Viable?” Friday at ...

The past election has only further invigorated a national discussion on the ways in which higher education shapes civil and political discourse writ large. At a superficial level, reporters and ...