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?: ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly attributed the state's successes to civility in her State of the State address. Top Republican leaders believe they have improved civility and working relationships within the ...

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 ...

Have you ever behaved rudely, discourteously, inconsiderately, or ungraciously with others? Why? Chances are it’s not because you are a rude and disrespectful person. Likely you behaved with ...

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 ...