POINT: Politicians and policy experts like to talk about the “root causes” of crime, homelessness, poverty, rising prices and ...

The survey findings, shared exclusively with NBC News, also point to which local institutions help reduce political strife.

This report takes stock of the dimensions and impacts of polarization in education based on a survey of teachers and K-12 ...

FILE - From left, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg, Republican presidential nominee former President ...

Think polarization is new to American politics? Harvard research reveals counties with the highest slave populations in 1860 ...

Polarization is the splitting of a whole into opposing parts. Source: Dids / Pexels What is Polarization? Polarization is defined as “the act of dividing something, especially something that contains ...

Joseph Morris, chair of Mercyhurst University’s Department of Political Science, is worried about political polarization. It’s “the greatest threat to the future of our experiment with democracy,” he ...

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 ...

(AP) — The results of the 2024 U.S. presidential election rattled the country and sent shockwaves across the world — or were cause for celebration, depending on who you ask. Is it any surprise then ...