Americans are almost equally split on whether the Ten Commandments should be displayed in public school classrooms. But Republicans, White evangelicals and older Americans are more supportive than ...

The feminist insight that personal life is political is complicated by neoliberalism, which casts political problems as ...

Most American voters believe the United States is too politically divided to solve problems, according to a poll by The New York Times and Siena University released Thursday. The poll found that 64 ...

Most U.S. adults who go to religious services say they’ve recently heard from their clergy about at least one political or social issue.

Historian Heather Cox Richardson told KPBS earlier this year that the people who insist Americans are polarized are those who benefit from the division. She said the vast majority of Americans can ...

Ochlocracy. Now, there’s a classic $10 word common from the American founding era that should make a comeback. (But probably won’t). Jonathan Turley’s new book, Rage and the Republic, is fundamentally ...

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 ...

Political attitudes and opinions can and do shift, sometimes drastically. Recent psychological research from Washington University in St. Louis offers insight into how emotional responses to threats ...

Matthew Dallek is a historian and a professor at George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management. Robert Dallek is a presidential historian. Assassination attempts are ruptures ...

A Pew Research Center report found that most Americans who regularly attend religious services hear about political or social issues from their clergy. The May 27 report, “What Political Issues Do ...