Meaningful communication and comprehension must become the new baseline for governance, civic life and institutional trust.

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Whether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens. Caring for others, ...

The way indigenous peoples around the world responded to the global COVID-19 pandemic has proven their resilience in overcoming challenges by drawing on their traditional knowledge and practices. At ...

Welcome to this seminar on the Social Contract in Times of Crises. We live in turbulent times. Just as countries were recovering from the pandemic, a sharp rise in food and energy prices is taking ...

Many theories of the social contract and natural rights were developed between the 17th and 18th centuries. The most famous among the theorists behind them include Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, ...

After weeks of chainsawing the federal government with no regard for the destruction of vital departments or the damaging effects on everyone from American farmers to veterans, Elon Musk recently ...

After I gave a speech about Gen-Z in the workplace, a human resources director in the audience asked if we could chat briefly. She explained that their Gen-Z employees would not stop asking for—even ...

To the editor: U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Milan Smith Jr. is right that people living unhoused in Los Angeles are indicative of a breakdown in the social contract, but not for the reasons ...

The Los Angeles fires have put the state’s breach of the basic social contract on full, horrific display. The citizens upheld their end of the deal: they paid taxes and complied with the law in ...