History shows that, if left untreated, extreme political and social divisions are a mortal threat to democracy.

Republican Amber Hulse, a newly elected South Dakota state senator, and Nick Jacobson, a Democratic candidate who lost his ...

Political polarization oscillates back and forth depending on various social and political factors, both domestic and international. Since the mid-2000s, the Democratic and Republican parties have ...

Nearly half of people from both political parties agreed. The responses didn’t surprise him. Adams studies political polarization measured by how people feel about others in their own and opposition ...

Partisanship and polarization are necessary evils in politics. On the one hand, without partisanship there is no debate and no freedom of choice. On the other, extreme polarization has historically ...

Polarization is not a new phenomenon, but no one can deny its particular salience to the present political moment. The gender gap is a significant component for young people as men and women drift ...

American political polarization in an international context In their 2020 book, "American Affective Polarization in Comparative Perspective," Adams and his co-authors Noam Gidron, from the Hebrew ...