Students trained in civil dialogue through UVA’s Civic Cornerstone Fellowship offer practical tips for navigating difficult ...

Plato never wrote "The Republic." Ancient editors added a subtitle clarifying the work's true focus: individual psychology ...

It’s useful to think of our engagement with algorithms as a social contract. Political theorists have long used the social contract as a device to explain why individuals submit to the authority of a ...

By Ella Anderson, Psy.D., Maria J. Palmeri, Ph.D., and Robert M. Gordon, Psy.D.

Black children in America deserve the freedom of a full, complete, enjoyable, and unencumbered childhood, and political education can help them understand the systems shaping their lives and empower ...

The invention of the modern self. How did the idea of the individual come into being? In that classic of Western cinema, Monty Python’s Life of Brian, the title character addresses a crowd in ...

If California politics were a circus, Katie Porter would be the clown who sets the tent on fire, then berates the audience for watching. Once touted as the Democrats’ “suburban supermom,” she’s now ...

For decades, Americans’ trust in one another has been on the decline, according to the most recent General Social Survey. A major factor in that downshift has been the concurrent rise in the ...

“Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion” goes a familiar proverb. The same is true of political parties that come into office promising to put an end to sleaze. The Labour Party put cleaning up British ...

The New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz joins Tyler Foggatt for the latest installment of “How Bad Is It?,” a monthly series on the health of American democracy. Their guest is David D. Kirkpatrick ...

1 Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland 2 Swiss Center of Expertise in the Social Sciences (FORS), Lausanne, Switzerland Face-to-face surveys have ...

For decades, Americans’ trust in one another has been on the decline, according to the most recent General Social Survey. A major factor in that downshift has been the concurrent rise in the ...