For decades, Americans’ trust in one another has been on the decline, according to the most recent General Social Survey. A ...

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 ...

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 ...

We can't call out guns, but we can call out polarization. But from my point of view, the problem is guns. The problem is anti-trans laws. The problem is white supremacy.

What’s so bad about polarization? I see the divides between factions of Americans as a troubling problem that we should all be striving to address. But lately I keep running into smart people ...

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.

New report outlines the deep political polarization’s slow and steady march. Urban-rural division has grown dramatically over the past 25 years, according to data from the Cook Political Report.

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.