Relationships are precarious, man-on-a-wire exercise in push/pull dynamics. You have to compromise to be in a relationship. You cannot be in a relationship strictly on your own terms, it takes two to ...

Compromise is a major strategy for conflict resolution and is essential for any working relationship—whether in our personal lives, the workplace, in our communities or as citizens. But it’s clearly ...

Have you ever noticed that, when you hear about a seemingly happy couple breaking up, it's often because they couldn't figure out how to compromise on something big? It might be that one partner ...

Geoff Nunberg, the linguist contributor on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, is the author of the book The Years of Talking Dangerously. Sometimes people avoid even saying the word. Not long after the ...

Source: Stock photo ID:498786229 Upload date:June 23, 2014 The United States of America almost did not happen. In 1787, as our country's "founders" debated for months over what the US should be, it ...

As defined by Merriam-Webster, a compromise is a “settlement of differences by consent reached by mutual concessions.” Compromising is an ever-present buzzword that floats around everywhere from ...

Professor, Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, Tufts University At a time when political division is heightened and the parties in Washington are deeply polarized, it is worth asking whether there ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” ...

As often as it is with politics, so it may be with corporate governance. The recent chaos surrounding the election of the Speaker of the House of Representatives offers a colorful but useful tutorial ...

Two House Republicans and two House Democrats proposed a compromise on Monday to end the impasse over enhanced Obamacare subsidies expiring at the end of the year, which, if accepted, could hasten the ...