Merriam-Webster has announced 'polarization' as its 'Word of the Year.' We all must stand together to fight division and ...

The dictionary publisher said Americans from competing tribes looked up the definition to better understand divided politics at home and worldwide. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief If you’ve been ...

Well-Being in a Polarized WorldProminent historians claim that this is the most polarized Americans have been since the Civil War. That’s a scary thought, with a heavily armed population. What saves ...

Earlier in October, The Washington Post refused to endorse a candidate in the 2024 Presidential Election. The public was outraged that the paper, whose motto is “Democracy dies in darkness,” would not ...

Waltham, Mass. — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dean Baquet, the pioneering former executive editor of The New York Times, will headline “The Media in a Divided America,” a timely event that will ...

The American lifestyle is far from a picture of health — this is no secret. Social media posts joke about the American diet, while research studies reprimand our sleep habits. We may have been ...

This week, Co-hosts Brandon Rottinghaus and Jeronimo Cortina discuss how the United States is more polarized than ever, why polarization is at an all-time high, the connection between partisan ...

People aren’t talking to each other anymore. Instead, they’re communicating in information echo chambers, interacting with people just like them and only hearing opinions they already agree with. As ...

In the digital age, we find ourselves increasingly divided, not just by our beliefs and values, but by the very technologies designed to connect us. The sophisticated algorithms that power our social ...

Driving the polarization that characterizes our times is the conflation of conviction and certainty. If I believe it, it’s certain! Conviction is the strong belief that a behavior, idea, or ideology ...