The political landscape of two decades ago seems almost unrecognizable now. Back then, opposing wars and the surveillance state was so completely coded as left-wing that Republicans regularly ...

This week's featured article is "How the Political Spectrum Turned Inside Out" by Jesse Walker. This audio was generated using AI trained on the voice of Katherine Mangu-Ward.

Labels can be a useful signpost to the audience to help understanding of politics in the UK and around the world. While still widely used, the existence of a clear left-right political spectrum is not ...

Political discord runs deep in the United States, with ideological divides often amplified by partisan media, social platforms and emotionally charged rhetoric. To better understand these tensions, it ...

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A study conducted by cognitive neuroscience researchers at Brown found that the brains of individuals on the extremes of the political spectrum process information more similarly to each other than to ...

When most of us think about politics, we think of different views as sitting on a spectrum. Left wing is at one end, right wing at the other. We all, therefore, sit somewhere on this straight line in ...

A new study has identified a common brain circuit for intensity of political involvement across the political spectrum. Researchers from Mass General Brigham assessed data from 124 male military ...

A Pew Research Center poll in 2023 found that 65% of Americans were exhausted and 55% were angry about the state of our political system. And that was before the 2024 election! Even though the ...

Earlier this month, executives at the major holding companies told analysts that they’ve seen no significant pullbacks in spending by clients due to heightened macroeconomic concerns fueled by Trump’s ...

Americans express roughly equal levels of concern about left-wing and right-wing extremism and violence, according to a new The Economist/YouGov poll. At the same time, overwhelming majorities believe ...

The political landscape of two decades ago seems almost unrecognizable now. Back then, opposing wars and the surveillance state was so completely coded as left-wing that Republicans regularly ...