In his 1936 work How to Win Friends and Influence People, now one of the bestselling books of all time, Dale Carnegie wrote: “I have come to the conclusion that there is only one way under high heaven ...

To bridge divides, we need to change the way we approach divisive conversations. That means arguing better, not less. Dr. Robert S. Harvey still has trouble processing how the situation escalated so ...

Less than a decade ago, the analysis of human discourse to identify the ways in which evidence is adduced to support conclusions — a process now known as argument mining 2 — was firmly beyond the ...

"I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side," said GK Chesterton. "I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side." Arguments are attempts to persuade by ...

The most important factor that drove me and my childhood friend Becca apart, politically, is that we went our separate ways, socially. I went to a liberal university in a city; she went to a ...

Earlier this year, a pair of researchers discovered a startling fact: Since the 2016 election, Thanksgiving dinners have gotten almost an hour shorter. Why? Because of political differences. In the ...

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with author Sarah Manguso, whose new book of aphorisms, 300 Arguments, tackles motherhood, love, and suicide. Sarah Manguso's new book is only 90 pages long, and the ...