It’s rarely been harder to disagree politically — but social science suggests ways to have constructive conversations across ideological divides.

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 ...

In A Nutshell The polarization surge was concentrated: American political polarization stayed relatively flat from 1988 to ...

Right-wingers think musicians got too political at the award ceremony. But experts in political science and public humanities ...

Cool people were generally seen as extrovert, hedonistic, powerful, adventurous, open and autonomous, according to the study ...

Don't be fooled by a graph. New research shows that a scientist's policy preferences can influence their results. Look past the model and find the ground truth.

The coming year could prove as unpredictable — and consequential — for US science as 2025 was. Although the US Congress sets the budget for science spending, the Trump administration has “aggressively ...

What is the Doomsday Clock, and what time will the announcement take place?

Almost all the rise in US polarisation over political issues since the eighties occurred from 2008 onwards, a new study suggests. Far more Americans now adopt party and ideological labels in line with ...

A study entitled, “What’s in a name? Democrat Party as multivocal communication,” delves into code words used by politicians. The study was published by Party Politics with a print version due out ...

In the latest example of the scare tactics favored by climate change alarmists, it was announced last month that 2025 “was ...

Bliss, a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley, typically gets up at 6 a.m. to make the drive to rural Lake County, where she’s ...