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

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

Why do many working-class voters back Trump over progressives? A new book offers a data-driven answer—and a way forward for ...

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

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… ...

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 ...

Observation of political polarization is not merely anecdotal; studies repeatedly bear this out. Now, some researchers say the partisan rift in the United States has become so extreme that the ...

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.