President Donald Trump's address to Congress on March 4 was one of many examples of how political leaders of both parties no longer model civil discourse. The acrimony on both sides made clear just ...

The Rock County Board on Thursday night approved a resolution that condemns political violence and intimidation and called on ...

What he does, in theory, is simple: Timothy Shaffer, a national leader in his field and UD’s inaugural Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Chair of Civil Discourse and director of the SNF Ithaca ...

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 ...

Recently, the University of Delaware Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration honored Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) with the Biden School Civility in ...

Elementary school students in Delaware will now have improved mental health services thanks to bipartisan collaboration that took place in drafting and passing into law House Bill 100, which creates ...

Duke is equipping students to respect differing viewpoints in a variety of ways. This Duke Today series examines the decline in civil discourse and Duke’s efforts to improve campus dialogue. If the ...

How do college students openly and calmly address controversial subjects — a problem especially since the Israel-Hamas War’s polarization on campuses? Universities need practical approaches to prepare ...

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 ...

The vision for William & Mary’s new Democracy Initiative is succinct: “W&M aspires to be a place where respectful dialogue takes place on challenging topics.” The initiative’s vision, outlined by a ...