Research suggests that an overload of false information has led many of us to become cynical, leading us to be skeptical of ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Did you ever notice how emotions flow through society from person to person, from group to group, because of the effects of emotional contagion? Emotions have run high in the past few years. They ...

Kerala 2.0, reviewed by Shashi Tharoor, former senior bureaucrats lay out an unflinching reform agenda for Kerala—challenging policy inertia, economic stagnation and political orthodoxy with insider ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...