If civil discourse is the key to a healthy democracy, we’re in big trouble. Civil discourse is another name for honest dialog in which people listen to one another carefully and seek common ground.

Kate Padgett Walsh co-organizes the Iowa High School Ethics Bowl competition. She is a professor of philosophy at Iowa State University. At a time when political conversations too often devolve into ...

During the second half of 2021, the Journalism and Media Ethics program at the Markkula Center initiated a set of virtual roundtable meetings around the term "News Distribution Ethics". We invited ...

When we talk about civil discourse, we often hear that term as a call to discuss controversial topics with a level of tact and grace that dignifies and respects our conversational counterpart. We ...