Why Being Anti-Science Is Now Part Of Many Rural Americans’ Identity
Societal Distrust And why that will make communication around the next crisis so much more challenging. Even before this pandemic,...
Polarization
Politics Podcast: Americans Aren’t As Polarized As The News Makes It Seem
FiveThirtyEight Republicans and Democrats disagree on all manner of things. Surveys suggest they often don’t even like each other, and...
Americans Feel Burnt Out — Personally And Politically
Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. Like a decent chunk of American workers currently, I’ve been feeling the effects...
Americans Feel Burnt Out
Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. Like a decent chunk of American workers currently, I’ve been feeling the effects...
Why The Republican Party Isn’t Concerned With Popularity
After Mitt Romney lost the 2012 presidential election, the Republican National Committee published what became known as the “GOP autopsy...
Why weren’t we polarized in the past?
There’s a lot of recent discussion about how the country has become increasingly polarized. One way of getting at the...
Why Bipartisanship In The Senate Is Dying
Congress is in full-on chaos mode right now, with the future of infrastructure, government funding, the debt limit and voting...
Changing How Primaries Work Probably Won’t Make Politics Less Divisive
Republican candidates around the country are trying to win over former President Donald Trump’s supporters before the 2022 midterm elections,...
Why The Two-Party System Is Wrecking American Democracy
As the “Big Lie” of a stolen election continues to dominate the Republican Party, GOP-controlled states enact restrictive voting laws...
Why The Two-Party System Is Effing Up U.S. Democracy
As the “Big Lie” of a stolen election continues to dominate the Republican Party, GOP-controlled states enact restrictive voting laws...
