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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The hour I spent with the 26-year-old having job troubles felt like 10 hours. “Jack’s” dad had asked me to talk with his son as a favor. “He can’t find the right job. He’s had a run of bad luck. Can ...

Cynicism can feel like self-protection, yet Elizabeth Strout’s fiction quietly dismantles it. Her novels practise attention, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...