Between 2008 and 2020, the United States experienced a relentless increase in “Separation”—the researchers’ metric for the distance between the average opinion of the two groups. By 2024, the degree ...

Divisions within the US population on social and political issues have increased by 64% since 1988, with almost all this coming after 2008, according to a study tracking polarization from the end of ...

Latin American leaders have gathered for a development forum, calling for regional unity amid increasing political ...

Barry Eichengreen, American economist who holds the title of George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, photographed on March 28 ...

The ideological divide between opposing political groups has been drastically increasing in various countries worldwide. This phenomenon, known as political polarization, can lead to greater social ...

Now shift to the South Side, where gentrification shapes politics differently. The South Side Flats evolved from a blue-collar neighborhood into a place with many renters and younger residents. People ...

Immigration. Abortion. Guns. Name a third-rail conversation topic and chances are Xiaowen Xu is talking about it – and she knows you are, too. Xu, an assistant professor of psychological sciences at ...

Utah Governor Spencer J. Cox and Representative Jake D. Auchincloss ’10 (D-Mass.) blamed social media for contributing to the ...

A new analysis of 471 U.S. counties has found that, for everyday travel, people from counties with particularly strong ...

Picture this: A team meeting derails because two colleagues snipe at each other. The root cause: They’re on opposite sides of every issue that hits the headlines. It doesn’t matter that you’ve banned ...