Nearly nine-in-ten U.S. adults say marijuana should be legal either for medical or recreational use. Just 11% say the drug should not be legal at all. A growing share of U.S. adults say religion is ...

The feminist insight that personal life is political is complicated by neoliberalism, which casts political problems as ...

Historian Heather Cox Richardson told KPBS earlier this year that the people who insist Americans are polarized are those who benefit from the division. She said the vast majority of Americans can ...

Ochlocracy. Now, there’s a classic $10 word common from the American founding era that should make a comeback. (But probably won’t). Jonathan Turley’s new book, Rage and the Republic, is fundamentally ...

This Pew Research Center report examines what Americans say they hear from their clergy about current social and political issues. It is based on adults who say they attend religious services at least ...

Matthew Dallek is a historian and a professor at George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management. Robert Dallek is a presidential historian. Assassination attempts are ruptures ...

Divisions within the US population on social and political issues have increased by 64% since 1988, with almost all this coming after 2008, according to a study tracking polarization from the end of ...

Political attitudes and opinions can and do shift, sometimes drastically. Recent psychological research from Washington University in St. Louis offers insight into how emotional responses to threats ...

Here are some of the activist’s stances on climate change, immigration, gun control and other issues. By Ashley Ahn and Maxine Joselow As one of the most influential right-wing activists in the United ...