A related trend noted in the broader political risk landscape is the growing realignment of countries away from traditional ...

But Mr. Trump is an effect of polarization as much as a cause. We’ve been growing apart politically for decades. Data from Gallup show wide and growing divergence across numerous issues between ...

This would directly decrease polarization,” says Alexandra Oprea, PhD, an assistant professor of philosophy in UB’s Philosophy, Politics and Economics program, and the paper’s first author. “We need ...

A major factor in that downshift has been the concurrent rise in the polarization between the two major political parties.

About 10 years ago, political scientist James Adams saw something troubling. New polls asked Americans whether they agreed or disagreed that people in the opposing political party weren’t simply wrong ...

Toxic polarization is poisoning America. Here's how you can help stop it this week. You have the opportunity this week to add your voice to the national conversation, meet people across the ...

Opinion What we learned about politics by talking about … wolves. The U.S. suffers from “affective polarization.” We saw it at the National Wolf Conversation.

FIRE 2020, 2021 surveys. At the other end of the scale, even right-leaning red state colleges such as BYU, Clemson or Texas A&M are at least 30 percent liberal and less than 50 percent conservative.

That word is “polarization.” A word that has been used incessantly to describe the fraught state of American politics and society is Merriam-Webster’s 2024 word of the year.