Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Charlie Kirk debates with students at the Cambridge Union at the University of Cambridge on May 19, 2025. Nordin Catic/Getty ...

The Daily Trojan Editorial Board supports independent and vigorous civic dialogue. We believe that in elections as important and uncertain as the 2026 California gubernatorial rac ...

Michigan State University launched its Presidential Speaker Series with a wide‑ranging and candid conversation on the role of higher education in sustaining democracy and civil discourse. Held at the ...

Public discourse campaigns often promote social responsibility, but do such discussions also impact our market behavior? Economists at the University of Zurich have published a new study that shows ...

“To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.” — Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz. A few weeks ago when I was speaking at a Santa Barbara County Association of Governments (SBCAG) board meeting, I ...

The Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship (PACES) is pleased to announce that Associate Professor Benjamin Teitelbaum will serve as the new faculty director for strategic events and ...

Join this event to hear David Kretschmer discuss the public discourse on religious veiling and Western Muslims’ ...

How people talk about issues can be just as important as what they say, the journal’s editors write. That is why “we should be alarmed by the superficial and manipulative nature of American public ...

Some folks have the TV on all the time, while some of us keep our noses stuck in a book. Still, there exists a stretch of middle ground where some do both. I admit to having scrounged enough passwords ...