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 ...

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 ...

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 ...