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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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 ...

Is civility a good thing in institutions of higher education? At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, just a few years ago, students wore stickers over their mouths saying, “Civility = ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Our democracy depends on the ability of our elected leaders to work together and build consensus. Gary Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson, city leadership, Community Civility Counts and the Gary Area Chamber ...