Priya Parker, the author of “The Art of Gathering,” shares her advice for orchestrating more meaningful gatherings and why that matters for our civic life, as well as our social lives.

Difficult conversations are not fun—but they provide valuable opportunities for growth, resilience, and connection.

Most boomers learned politeness through rules. Younger generations learned it through boundaries. Neither approach is inherently wrong. But when these two value systems collide, what’s intended as ...

Most founders don’t lose opportunities in the first conversation. They lose them afterward. The initial call goes well. There’s interest and positive signals. Maybe even a verbal “yes.” And then… ...

To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. Last weekend, I found myself at a neighborhood gathering, the kind where everyone mills around making polite ...

The current Apps SDK provides per-widget state, and allows developers to maintain cross-session and cross-conversation state on their own backend. However, there is no clean way to persist state for ...

The most considerate thing you can do at a party is disappear without making your exit everyone else's problem. I perfected the Irish goodbye during my years in luxury hospitality. You'd be at a staff ...

Sex, religion, politics—all increasingly fair game for polite conversation. But raise the topic of money and watch that dinner party screech to a halt. The authors of two new books on money matters ...

This holiday season, politics may become less fraught as people become disenchanted. Listen and offer to work together. PeopleImages Getty Images Never has the elephant seemed so apt as the symbol of ...

Reproductive health and money are two things you’re not supposed to talk about in polite conversation. But Empify founder and CEO Ashley M. Fox and Wisp CEO Monica Cepak built businesses that do ...

Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. The Common Crawl Foundation is little known outside of Silicon Valley. For more ...