Nearly 200 residents representing the voting breakdown of a swing state found common ground on hot-button issues.

President Donald Trump canceled a visit to honor the war dead from World War II at a French cemetery. Senior staff later said ...

For nearly a century, fusion was legal and common in every state. It allowed new ideas, new leaders, and new parties to ...

Deep polarization is a fact of American political life in the 21st century, but our debates need not stay so overheated. What would dial it down? Giving Americans — left, ...

America’s political polarization is a threat to healthy democracy Politics always involve disagreement, but managing it may involve first learning how to counteract conformity by engaging in ...

When we talk politics today, our voices are loud and fractious, always passionate and often divisive. Our conversations are rarely rational debates; they either become therapy sessions with like-mi… ...

The sharp increase in political polarization in America over the past 50 years has been driven in part by how different generations think about politics. But the rise of younger generations to ...

Political polarization in the US has become a major issue, as Republicans and Democrats increasingly inhabit separate realities on topics as diverse as election results and infectious diseases.

While political differences are a function of any healthy democracy, polarization occurs when those differences begin to pull citizens apart from each other and the societal bonds they share.

Toxic polarization is poisoning American democracy. But I still have hope we can save it. I help lead an organization called Braver Angels, a bipartisan effort dedicated to political ...