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- May 31, 2023. New York Times. The Politics of Delusion Have Taken Hold.
- April 19, 2023. Penn Today. What do our ancestral family ties say about our political beliefs?
- March 22, 2023. New York Times. The Unsettling Truth about Trump’s First Great Victory.
- March 17, 2023. Charles Koch Foundation News. ICYMI: CFK Partners Researching Ways to Improve Political Discourse.
- March 1, 2023. Nature. How to tackle political polarization — the researchers trying to bridge divides.
- February 23, 2023. Stand Together. Partisan Animosity is a Threat to Democracy. This New Research Lab Aims to Fix it.
- February 15, 2023. Washington Post. Biden’s empathy shapes policy, but some voters don’t feel it.
- February 8, 2023. New York Times. Meet the People Working on Getting us to Hate Each Other Less.
- February 1, 2023. Penn Today. Is Social Media Good or Bad for Social Unity?
- January 11, 2023. Stateline. Shared Power Used to be the Norm in Statehouses. Now It’s Nearly Extinct.
- December 7, 2022. New York Times. Trump Is Unraveling Before Our Eyes, but Will It Matter?
- November 19, 2022. The Hill. We study political polarization. The midterm election results make us hopeful.
- November 17, 2022. The New Yorker. When Election Deniers Concede
- November 16, 2022. New York Times. The Red Wave Didn’t Just Vanish
- November 9, 2022. Mercury News. Perhaps only Republicans can rescue American democracy
- October 26, 2022. New York Times. The Left-Right Divide Might Help Democrats Avoid a Total Wipeout
- August 31, 2022. Maybe Partisan Polarization Is Not Undermining Democracy?
- August 2, 2022. Washington Post. Liz Cheney is extremely conservative. That won’t win over conservatives.
- June 22, 2022. The Hill. How many endorse political violence?
- June 15, 2022. New York Times. We’re Staring at Our Phones, Full of Rage for ‘the Other Side’
- May 25, 2022. New York Times. We Can’t Even Agree on What Is Tearing Us Apart
- March 30, 2022. Jacksonville Journal-Courier. Confirmation hearings a disaster; Democrats just don’t know it
- March 23, 2022. New York Times. Democrats Are Making Life Too Easy for Republicans
- January 31, 2022. NPR. 1 in 4 Americans say violence against the government is sometimes OK.
- January 29, 2022. The Guardian. No, America is not on the brink of a civil war.
- October 6, 2021. RealClearPolitics. What if ‘Polarization’ Isn’t the Big Problem?
- September 29, 2021. New York Times. How Much Does How Much We Hate Each Other Matter?
- September 21, 2021. Washington Examiner. High school debate can save America.
- September 20, 2021. The New Republic. The Case for Partisanship.
- September 16, 2021. Yahoo! News. Republicans and Democrats vastly overestimate how much the other side supports political violence, paper finds.
- August 4, 2021. New York Times. Biden’s Honeymoon Is Over, and He Knows It.
- June 30, 2021. Vox. The cost of bipartisanship.
- May 19, 2021. New York Times. How the Storming of the Capitol Became a ‘Normal Tourist Visit.’
- June 12, 2021. Newsday. Bipartisanship faces difficult test with big infrastructure bill.
- March 31, 2021. The Hill. Biden’s smart bipartisan message.
- February 10, 2021. Mashable. Politics on dating apps are thornier than ever now that Trump is gone.
- December 22, 2020. Washington Post. How Google is hurting local news.
- December 2, 2020. New York Times. Honestly, This Was a Weird Election.
- October 14, 2020. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. How Will Indian Americans Vote? Results From the 2020 Indian American Attitudes Survey.
- October 1, 2020. USA Today. Election forecasts helped elect Trump in 2016. It could happen again in 2020.
- October 7, 2020. New York Times. If Trump Loses the Election, What Happens to Trumpism?
- September 20, 2020. Psychology Today. How to Counter the Forces Driving Political Polarization.
- September 16, 2020. New York Times. Whose America Is It?
- August 19, 2020. New York Times. Trump vs. Biden Is an American History Rerun.
- July/August 2020. Foreign Affairs. Divided We Fall: What Is Tearing America Apart?
- July 29, 2020. New York Times. Trump Is Trying to Bend Reality to His Will.
- July 9, 2020. Washington Post. Our study found little evidence that Twitter is biased against conservative opinion leaders.
- July 8, 2020. New York Times. How Could Human Nature Have Become This Politicized?
- June 23, 2020. The World. When police reform hasn’t worked: Part II
- April 15, 2020. Washington Post. Will the coronavirus make conservatives love government spending?
- March 13, 2020. Newsweek. The Pollsters Got It Wrong When Trump Took on Hillary in 2016. Can You Trust Them This Time?
- March 2, 2020. Chicago Booth Review. Could anything unite the United States?
- February 29, 2020. Slate. Could Nate Silver and FiveThirtyEight Have Lowered 2016’s Voter Turnout? A New Paper Says Yes.
- February 28, 2020. Washington Post. Did Trump win in 2016 because people are bad at probability?
- February 14, 2020. MIT Technology Review. Pollsters got it wrong in the 2016 election. Now they want another shot.
- November 26, 2019. The State Press. Students can tolerate opposing political ideas without embracing them.
- November 6, 2019. New York Times. Is Politics a War of Ideas or of Us Against Them?
- November 6, 2019. Washington Post. Kentucky’s urban-rural split looked like the 2016 presidential race, not the 2015 gubernatorial one.
- September 17, 2019. Washington Post. Twitter got somewhat more civil when tweets doubled in length. Here’s how we know.
- March 13, 2019. New York Times. No Hate Left Behind.
- November 22, 2018. Foundation for Economic Education. Politics Is Destroying Civil Society—But Gratitude Can Save Us.
- July 26, 2018. New York Times. In Our ‘Winner-Take-Most’ Economy, the Wealth Is Not Spreading.
- July 15, 2018. New York Magazine. How Social Science Might Be Misunderstanding Conservatives.
- June 25, 2018. The New Yorker. The Rise of McPolitics.
- May 31, 2018. New York Times. How Liberals Got Lost on the Story of Missing Children at the Border.
- May 10, 2018. New York Times. Which Side Are You On?
- April 19, 2018. Columbia Journalism Review. WeChatting American Politics: Misinformation, Polarization, and Immigrant Chinese Media.
- March 22, 2018. How election forecasts confuse Americans — and may lead them not to vote at all.
- February 6, 2018. Pew Research Center. Use of election forecasts in campaign coverage can confuse voters and may lower turnout.
- October 26, 2017. New York Times. The Party of Lincoln Is Now the Party of Trump.
- October 20, 2017. Wall Street Journal. Can Evangelicals and Academics Talk to Each Other?
- October 17, 2017. Baltimore Sun. GOP hog-tied by a divided Senate.
- July 17, 2017. Financial Times. Online vitriol and death threats – a way of life for MPs.
- June 15, 2017 New York Times. How We Became Bitter Political Enemies.
- March 22, 2017. New York Times. Why People Continue to Believe Objectively False Things.
- January 13, 2017. Fortune. What’s Driving Fake News Is an Increase in Political Tribalism.
- January 11, 2017. New York Times. The Real Story About Fake News Is Partisanship.
- August 31, 2017. Stanford News. Americans’ partisan identities are stronger than race and ethnicity, Stanford scholar finds.
- November 7, 2016. Scientific American. The Hyper-Polarization of America.
- August 11, 2016. What The Yankees-Red Sox Rivalry Can Teach Us About Political Polarization.
- February 16, 2016. Next Avenue. When Your Friends Don’t Share Your Politics.
- December 7, 2015. Vox. Political identity is fair game for hatred: how Republicans and Democrats discriminate.
- February 13, 2015. Vox. Republicans and Democrats judge each other more than whites judge blacks.
- January 28, 2015. New York Times. How Did Politics Get So Personal?
- December 15, 2014. In These Times. We Can’t All Just Get Along.
- November 1, 2014. Vox. Gamergate and the politicization of absolutely everything.
- October 30, 2014. New York Magazine. Confessions of a ‘Partyist’: Yes, I Judge Your Politics.
- October 27, 2014. New York Times. Why Partyism Is Wrong.
- October 15, 2014. NPR. What Is Really Tearing America Apart.
- October 8, 2014. Stanford Report. Political animosity exceeds racial hostility, new Stanford research shows.
- September 23, 2014. Vox. Here’s how many Republicans don’t want their kids to marry Democrats
- September 24, 2012. Stanford Report. When it comes to policy, moderate politicians keep their mouths shut, says Stanford political scientist.