A recent study found that 70 percent of people were overconfident about their knowledge of politics and when told about the falsehoods they held, refused to change their mind. As statewide primaries ...

As statewide primaries continue through the summer, many Americans are beginning to think about which candidates they will support in the 2022 general election. This decision-making process is fraught ...

North Americans spend an average of two hours and six minutes daily interacting with various social media platforms, according to the online database Broadband Search. Globally, Facebook's 1.9 billion ...

The president has redefined politics in 2025. But the Epstein files show he cannot resist the voice of the quiet middle.

In text messages from 2017, Jeffrey Epstein seemingly represented himself as positioned to pass information from the Trump ...

The Law of Entropy holds that any system has within it natural tendencies toward disintegration, randomness and atrophy that will ultimately destroy the system unless counteracted by a reinforcement ...

The results of a new study published in Digital Journalism suggest that exposure to alternative media sites — which are often extremist in nature and say they exist to correct perceptions being ...

As a political scientist, I’ve long believed political competition to be the keystone of representative democracy. Yet in the 2024 election cycle, I’m consciously limiting my time, attention and ...

In the Oval Office, President Donald Trump leaned toward New York’s mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, and said, “We have to get Con Edison to start lowering the rates.” Mamdani didn’t hedge. “Absolutely,” ...