A recent study found that 70 percent of people were overconfident about their knowledge of politics and when told about the falsehoods they held, refused to change their mind. As statewide primaries ...

As statewide primaries continue through the summer, many Americans are beginning to think about which candidates they will support in the 2022 general election. This decision-making process is fraught ...

North Americans spend an average of two hours and six minutes daily interacting with various social media platforms, according to the online database Broadband Search. Globally, Facebook's 1.9 billion ...

As a political scientist, I’ve long believed political competition to be the keystone of representative democracy. Yet in the 2024 election cycle, I’m consciously limiting my time, attention and ...

The results of a new study published in Digital Journalism suggest that exposure to alternative media sites — which are often extremist in nature and say they exist to correct perceptions being ...

The president has redefined politics in 2025. But the Epstein files show he cannot resist the voice of the quiet middle.

Ken Burns has come in for some deserved criticism for pushing the line, in his new documentary on the American Revolution, that the Founding Fathers got their ideas about confederative government from ...

Representation matters, but Zohran Mamdani’s story is about what’s possible when people organize across differences for a ...

In the Oval Office, President Donald Trump leaned toward New York’s mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, and said, “We have to get Con Edison to start lowering the rates.” Mamdani didn’t hedge. “Absolutely,” ...

As statewide primaries continue through the summer, many Americans are beginning to think about which candidates they will support in the 2022 general election. This decision-making process is fraught ...