Researchers at TU Wien are developing a model that interprets opinions not as diametrically opposed poles, but as overlapping ...

Why won't your family member speak to you? Social media algorithms may be driving the family estrangement epidemic. Here's ...

What’s so bad about polarization? I see the divides between factions of Americans as a troubling problem that we should all be striving to address. But lately I keep running into smart people who ...

In his recent homily commemorating the beginning of the Second Vatican Council in 1962, Pope Francis regretted the “polarization” of some Catholics in the wake of the Council. “How many times did they ...

A funny thing happened after July 21, when President Biden ended his campaign for reelection. It’s not merely that Kamala Harris emerged to take his place; it’s that her campaign had overcome the ...

With no signs of improvement, political polarization in the United States has reached a point where deal-breakers in dating have increased and are now split along partisan lines, especially under ...

For the first time, the United States has been classified as a “backsliding democracy” in a global assessment of democratic societies by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral ...

The first and perhaps the most serious such consequence is the decline of public trust in the military. When people perceive the military as representing one particular ideological view, especially ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jesse Pines is an expert in healthcare innovation and wellness. The media landscape is a constant battlefield these days. This ...

Associate Professor of Political Science, University at Albany, State University of New York The sharp increase in political polarization in America over the past 50 years has been driven in part by ...