When it comes to civic engagement turning into tangible action, look no further than the people of Freeman, their response to the odor being produced by the rendering plant southeast of town, and what ...

Abstract: In discourse, the elementary text spans are semantically connected by coherence relations. Discourse markers linguistically realize the coherence relations in the surface form. On the other ...

On the first day of every semester, I open each of my classes with a line that has never lost its punch: “Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.” That’s Daniel Patrick ...

Forty-four percent of students feel comfortable expressing their opinions on campus without fear of negative consequences. At the same time, students overwhelmingly support efforts to increase civil ...

President Donald Trump's address to Congress on March 4 was one of many examples of how political leaders of both parties no longer model civil discourse. The acrimony on both sides made clear just ...

Public policy professor Stephen Buckley on the media's role in polarization, public conversation It would be incomplete these days to teach about democracy, ideology and the polarization gripping the ...

Lawyers for San Diego County are scheduled to appear in court Friday morning to ask a judge to extend and expand a temporary restraining order that was granted earlier this month. The legal action — ...

As Malibu’s mayor, I am dedicated to upholding the values of our community, ensuring that our town remains a safe, prosperous, and vibrant place to live and raise a family. Recently, I was falsely ...

Perhaps it is not surprising that inviting people to reconsider the merits of disliked speech features generates a bit of controversy. After all, we are nothing if not wedded to our firm beliefs about ...