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Despite their high confidence overall, almost half of surveyed election officials worried about the cost of running elections.
Why would a young Republican back solar but reject a carbon tax? Twenty years of survey data shows climate opinion is more complex than party labels suggest.
Republicans hold both chambers and publicly back the president’s signature bill that would curtail mail-in voting and enforce strict voter ID laws. Here, a public policy and politics scholar explains why it still isn’t law.
Partisan debates are less heated at the local level, providing lessons that might help calm the waters nationally.
Although she’s the world’s reigning pop star, attitudes toward Swift are split markedly along both partisan and gender lines.
Why does health care reform keep failing despite decades of attention and expanding costs? A scholar of Congress has some answers.
Eileen Higgins won a hard-fought election to become Miami’s new mayor. Now for the hard part – governing the city.
Message discipline is an increasing feature of Canadian politics. Canadians across the country should pay attention to what just happened in Alberta, where teachers were ordered back to work.
The public’s frustration with ‘politics as usual’ has led more political newcomers to win office. But amateurs are more likely to view bipartisanship as a concession, not a tool for advancing policy.
For now, the Canadian polarization story is one of caution, not crisis. Our political differences are real, but haven’t yet deeply divided us.
Tim Berners-Lee, the man who gave us the world wide web, dreamt the technology would unite us. But something went really wrong with the rise of social media.
Anger at the other side, as represented by the political party opposing yours, is a powerful motivator to engage in protests.
Trying to change someone’s mind can seem futile. But there are approaches to political discourse that still matter, even if they don’t instantly win someone over.
Partisan bias doesn’t stop with voters. When Republicans hold the White House, Republican economists consistently overshoot on growth forecasts.
President George Washington warned in his 1796 Farewell Address about dangers that lay ahead for the US – warnings that seem startlingly contemporary and relevant 229 years later.
Gerrymandering has existed since the United States’ earliest days, but now technology and political trends are supercharging it.
Studies link public broadcasting to higher voter turnout, better factual knowledge and lower susceptibility to extremist rhetoric. Those contributions to democracy may be diminished by Congress’ cuts.
A combination of factors, including Democrats and Republicans feeling more and more animosity for the other side, led to the roughing up of Sen. Alex Padilla at a press conference.
What do audiences really think about impartiality in news presenting?
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