Cristian Mungiu's Norway-set drama about political polarization, Fjord, has won the Palme d'Or, handing the Cannes Film Festival's top honour for the second time to Mungiu, the Romanian director of 4 ...

Lots of well-meaning folks in and beyond both major political parties have quietly hoped that the poisonous atmosphere of ...

Polarization is often created by political elites aiming to gain popularity, but it can also be caused by social conflicts ...

The decline of civic education hit bottom about a decade ago and is at last on the rebound. This fact brings me hope.

The health of liberal democracies has been the focus of interest for political science for some time, against a global ...

As Israel heads toward another election, the country’s deepest divides may no longer be external enemies – but itself ...

The real source of our confirmation conflict is not the length of judicial service. It is judicial power, constitutional ...

A word that has been used incessantly to describe the fraught state of American politics and society is Merriam-Webster’s 2024 word of the year. That word is “polarization.” Defined as a “division ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From left, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, Vice President Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg, former President Donald ...