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 ...

Most U.S. adults who go to religious services say they’ve recently heard from their clergy about at least one political or social issue.

Most American voters believe the United States is too politically divided to solve problems, according to a poll by The New York Times and Siena University released Thursday. The poll found that 64 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...