To cultivate hope, people need three things, Zaki said: They first need to be able to envision a better future, either ...

All politicians are venal and corrupt, so supporting one over the other is pointless. The media always lies; never believe anything you hear on the news. Putin has infiltrated social media so ...

A conversation about increasing trust in the workplace and society. Around the world, we’ve become increasingly cynical about other people, public institutions, and corporations. In Edelman’s 2022 ...

Is cynicism the glue that keeps Russia's regime from falling apart? Alexei Levinson introduces a new series on openDemocracy Russia. Cynicism is a tried and tested way of manipulating public opinion.

P erhaps it’s time to reassess the virtues of cynicism — that deep and abiding suspicion of all things organized. The rise of Donald Trump was, at least in part, founded on this suspicion, on the ...

We all know someone — maybe it’s a friend, a co-worker, a family member — who always manages to be the voice of doom. The person who always knows that something is pointless or won’t succeed. If no ...

About 30 years ago, former MIT professor Ed Schein proposed a model of organizational culture with three specific levels: artifacts, espoused values and assumptions. By espoused values, he had in mind ...

Cynicism is all around us; it’s contagious, and it can permeate an entire generation’s thinking quickly. Young people today are faced with mental health, physical health, social, democracy and climate ...

The Cold War lasted 45 agonizing years. Daily life in the Soviet Union was a mixture of dread and horror—children taught to report their parents’ whispered doubts, families queuing for hours for bread ...

Very few Americans are allowing themselves to feel anything about Afghanistan anymore. A triple bombing in Kabul left 80 people, many of them schoolgirls, dead last week. In photographs, you see the ...