Merriam-Webster has announced 'polarization' as its 'Word of the Year.' We all must stand together to fight division and ...

By securing one completely safe Democrat seat in a heavily Republican state, Utah mapmakers pushed the remaining districts ...

The survey findings, shared exclusively with NBC News, also point to which local institutions help reduce political strife.

From the column: "The state ... takes sides in all disagreements. As a result, polarization increases, and increases again and again." ...

For the first time, the United States has been classified as a “backsliding democracy” in a global assessment of democratic societies by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral ...

Somerset, Massachusetts / / December 6, 2025 / CRF Publishing LLC Key Takeaways: American political polarization follows predictable historical cycles, with today’s divisions resembling the Civil War ...

The first and perhaps the most serious such consequence is the decline of public trust in the military. When people perceive the military as representing one particular ideological view, especially ...

Since the beginning of human history, people have made decisions in groups. In modern societies, they do so in companies, law firms, school boards, labor unions, religious organizations, governments, ...

How can the partisan divide be bridged when conservatives and liberals consume the same political content, yet interpret it through their own biased lens? Researchers from UC Berkeley, Stanford ...

Political polarization is having far-reaching impacts on American life, harming consumer welfare and creating challenges for people ranging from elected officials and policymakers to corporate ...