Political scientists seeing parallels between China and the U.S.

Last month, more than 1,200 American political scientists signed a letter protesting what they see as the undermining of checks and balances in the U.S. system by the Trump administration. Emily ... Read More

Today’s Politics May Be Bad for Your Health - WSJ

Today’s Politics May Be Bad for Your Health Citizens in a new study blame U.S. politics for stress, depression, lost sleep and other physical and mental problems By ... Read More

GOP views of major U.S. institutions take sharp negative turn, survey suggests

Republicans' view of major U.S. institutions including banks, large corporations and tech companies turned increasingly negative within the past two years, a new survey released Friday suggests. Read More

Political Scene: Just How Undemocratic Are We? - The New Yorker

Earlier this month, a study by the political scientists Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page found that wealthy Americans exercise such a disproportionate degree of influence on government policy that ... Read More

Opinion | Political Scientists Want to Know Why We Hate One Another This Much (Published 2024) - The New York Times

Shanto Iyengar, a Stanford political scientist whose 2012 paper, “Affect, Not Ideology: A Social Identity Perspective on Polarization” (written with Gaurav Sood and Yphtach Lelkes), is a ... Read More

What’s the One Book That Explains American Politics Today?

It makes an implicit case that the moment some in Congress today seem to be waiting for—one where a universal consensus can be established, and reforming the system carries no political risk ... Read More

Trump Meets Every Criteria for an Authoritarian Leader, Harvard Political Scientists Warn - Newsweek

President Donald Trump met all the warning signs for an authoritarian leader during the 2016 presidential campaign, two Harvard political scientists write in their new book, "How Democracy Dies." ... Read More

Examining how U.S. politics became intertwined with personal identity | PBS News

America's divisions often go beyond disputes over policy, regularly spilling into clashes over identity and culture and pitting friends and family against one another. Judy Woodruff explores how ... Read More

Admit It, Political Scientists: Politics Really Is More Broken Than Ever

Scholars restrain themselves out of fear of being seen as partisans, but what's happening now is different, and false equivalence is no virtue. Read More

Trump’s Re-election Defines a New Era of American Politics

The Obama-Romney race in 2012 was the last in a familiar pattern in U.S. politics, which has since become defined by Donald Trump’s conservative populism. By Nate Cohn The 2012 Obama-Romney race ... Read More

Here's Just How Little Confidence Americans Have In Political Institutions

A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds that Congress, the political parties and the media rank among the least-trusted U.S. institutions in the age of President Trump. Read More