When you're digging through the internet and reading essays, articles, or even having an argument with a person, it's often tough to immediately spot where the argument breaks down. Professor of ...

You and your partner consider yourselves pretty good communicators, but let’s face it—occasionally you both lose your tempers and sometimes, you wish you could have a professional mediator in the room ...

The Obama administration had four Supreme Court Justices quite plainly on its side Wednesday in the latest fight over the new health care law, but that may be all that it had because there was no way ...

Arguments are a part of life, and navigating them effectively can often feel like an art. One subtle yet powerful tool in winning an argument is the phrase "part of me." When used thoughtfully, this ...

Normally, in dealings with police, the fewer words the better. Especially for kids, "Yes" and "sir" are pretty much the useful limits of conversational vocabulary. But over the past few months, lots ...

Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi’s fond documentary “The 50 Year Argument” (airing Monday night on HBO) looks back on five decades of the venerable New York Review of Books, a twice-monthly journal ...

At 11 a.m. on Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hold one hour of oral argument on the constitutionality of the government’s ban on “indecency” on television and radio, in the case of Federal ...