Every time I fill up my car, buy groceries at a discount supermarket, duck into a convenience store for some little necessity or read the latest news on how America's war industries are making ...

As a graduate student and English instructor at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, I study the art of persuasion for a living and teach my students how to argue more productively about politics ...

The Harvard political scientist says the real problem is a weak culture of debate on campuses, not ideological diversity.

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For every generation of Americans there arises a critical and often unexpected challenge that demands thoughtful, effective, and cooperative action in the public interest. For Americans today, the ...

Our democracy is at a tipping point. We may have already passed the point of no return. The threat to our democracy obviously is Donald Trump and his administration. Why is this administration a ...

The first three months of the Trump administration were a mass-extinction level event for global democracy support and foreign aid. With astonishing speed, the administration decimated two ...

It's easy to despair with another government shutdown. But this hour, three speakers argue that simple upgrades are key to restoring faith in the... Move fast...and ...

The writer, a researcher at the University of Tennessee, teaches students how to argue more productively about politics. Attending neighborhood meetings is one way to interact with people of a ...

Is America a democracy? Reactionaries, such as the activist Charlie Kirk and Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, say it is not, never was, and shouldn’t be. They justify the antidemocratic features of the ...