Last year may have felt like more of the same, but Americans have reason to hope that our political culture can change. Hope ...

The Pew-Knight Initiative supports new research on how Americans absorb civic information, form beliefs and identities, and engage in their communities. Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan, ...

According to national surveys conducted in 2017 and 2020 by Kevin B. Smith, a professor of political science at the ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand how Americans view the state of U.S. politics today, and to explore in depth how the public thinks about the quality of their political ...

Mercieca is a professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at Texas A&M University and the author of Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump. “We’re going to ...

"And that's what we found. It's not like politics makes bastards of the left or the right, or the young or the old, or the rich or the poor. Politics seems to make bastards of us all." More ...

Are we all political animals? Aristotle thought so. Politics, he believed, was the art of the possible, but extremes of wealth could harm democracies.

Tired of real politics? Try the silver screen instead. By Jess Bidgood As 2024 draws to a close, you might be tired of watching politicians act as if they are the stars of an epic film. So, as the ...

Source: “The Temptation of Christ” (Public Domain, Artist Unknown), meme created by Megha Arora . Politics often seems like cheerleading. The metaphor is apt, for cheerleading is about signaling and ...

One in a series of occasional articles highlighting the philosophies and techniques of innovative teachers. NEW YORK Attending lectures, scouring newspapers, writing essays, debating issues: Those are ...