Articles are written by scholars who are experts on issues of public interest, assisted by editors who help unlock the knowledge. The Conversation was founded in 2011 and has newsrooms in the United ...

But could it also work on a sub-national level — in a city or state — and try to make a dent, however small, in the local news crisis? That’s the idea behind The Conversation Local, an initiative that ...

Think about the last time you told a story to a friend. You probably adjusted it halfway through. You saw their eyebrows lift. You noticed them lean in, or glance away. You clarified a detail. You ...

You know the feeling. You’re at a party, doing your best to chat up the room, when suddenly the conversation falls off a cliff. You’ve asked all the small-talk staples: what they do, where they’re ...

It can be difficult to leave a conversation that has lost steam. But here are 12 phrases brilliant people use to politely end a conversation with anyone.

Conversation is civilized speech. It is more purposeful than chatter; more humane than gossip; more intimate than debate. But it is an elusive ideal. In our verbal exchanges we often flip from one ...

What happens when we become too dependent on our mobile phones? According to MIT sociologist Sherry Turkle, author of the new book Reclaiming Conversation, we lose our ability to have deeper, more ...

We need to start an important conversation about all of the important conversations we need to have. Our backlog of important conversations seems to be growing at a much faster rate than these actual ...

When conversation becomes a competition to impress each other, both partners end up feeling the opposite—unimpressed and ...

“Approach the subject early. It’s like a path through the woods. An established path is easier to follow versus bushwhacking through the first time. Discussing before cognitive concerns come up can ...