It's a tournament — as well as a party — billed as Friday Night Fights. There are plenty of rules in a sword fight. But there's one rule that applies after the fighters have put down their ...

At the Pittsburgh Sword Fighters club, members are asked to leave their politics at the door, a rule that has led to closer ...

Over the last few years and through this year's contentious campaign season, which was rooted in America's deep divisions, there has been a coarsening in the way people talk to each other.