Polarization in the Colorado Legislature and elsewhere comes from geographic sorting and winner-takes-all elections. There is ...

The survey findings, shared exclusively with NBC News, also point to which local institutions help reduce political strife.

A word that has been used incessantly to describe the fraught state of American politics and society is Merriam-Webster’s 2024 word of the year. That word is “polarization.” Defined as a “division ...

For the first time, the United States has been classified as a “backsliding democracy” in a global assessment of democratic societies by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral ...

The ideological divide between opposing political groups has been drastically increasing in various countries worldwide. This phenomenon, known as political polarization, can lead to greater social ...

Political outrage is taking a toll on Americans’ health. A doctor explains how hyperpolarized media drives stress, anxiety and division—and what it means for you.

Polarization is the splitting of a whole into opposing parts. Source: Dids / Pexels What is Polarization? Polarization is defined as “the act of dividing something, especially something that contains ...

Much like an overexploited ecosystem, the increasingly polarized political landscape in the United States — and much of the world — is experiencing a catastrophic loss of diversity that threatens the ...

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