An apology can repair, or further damage, a relationship. In his The Devil's Dictionary, the satirist Ambrose Bierce defines "apologize" as "To lay the foundation for a future offense." What was ...

Few years have been as full of public apologies as 2017. Wait, let me restate that. Few years have been as full of public apologies, yet rife with non-apologies, as 2017. The #MeToo campaign, along ...

Apologizing is often considered an ethical obligation, a responsibility, or simply the right thing to do. But we have gotten so accustomed to hearing, and giving, perfunctory apologies born out of a ...