polarization

How many rich moderates would join the MAGA far right if redistribution policies threatened their wealth?

The debate over abortion is an important part of the story of polarization in American politics, but it is not its genesis.

Conservatives and liberals both cite the nation’s charter, but they’re not talking about the same parts of it.

In times of moral crisis, everyone picks a side — even those proclaiming neutrality.

Predictions of society coming undone reflect deep anxieties over the divisions roiling the country, but these professed fears about our future actually provide hope.

We may not be in the midst of a war today, but the progress of democracy in this country is still tied to the rights of its most vulnerable citizens.

And anyway, agreement between the two parties has often masked serious problems.

We may not like it, but when it comes to U.S. politics, polarization may very well be part of the solution.

Civil War historian David Blight reflects on America’s Disunion – then and now.

Political polarization in the U.S. mirrors its spatial divide.

Polarization in Congress began in the 1970s, and its only been getting worse since.

The prominence of politicos-turned-pundits is a product of cable news' turn to opinion commentary as a cheap and easy way to meet the needs of 24/7 coverage.

Kevin Phillips help set the Republican Party on the path that led it to Trump.

A scholarly roundtable on Samuel Moyn's new book.

To judge from the Concord collection, the public forum of antebellum America was no model of democratic deliberation.

A new book identifies the 1968 Democratic convention as the moment when broad public regard for the news media gave way to widespread distrust, and American divisiveness took off.

A new book makes the case for a more pragmatic anti-policing movement—one that seeks to build working-class solidarity across racial lines.

How our inability to change America’s most important document is deforming our politics and government.

The senator from Massachusetts and the birth of the Republican Party.

The promise of US federalism is that states will be “laboratories of democracy." The reality is that states are more often laboratories of authoritarianism.