Marquette University Professor Dr. Julia Azari joined Point Taken's Steve Scaffidi and Kristin Brey to discuss the history of political polarization, ...

The United States government has been shut down for nearly a month, yet another indication that the political system has become deeply dysfunctional. But the shutdown is just another episode in a ...

Polarization in America might be reaching a fever pitch amid a rash of escalating threats and violent attacks directed at political figures across the country. A new survey released this month by the ...

Five years ago, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong did a bold thing. He banned political conversations at work. He made this decision because he knows what the job of a business leader is: to deliver for ...

Thirty years ago, when the verdict in the O.J. Simpson trial was announced on Oct. 3, half the nation exhaled in relief and the other half gasped in disbelief. I was there, a member of the defense ...

Pollsters, news anchors and newspaper columnists say America is polarized. The day before the 2024 presidential election, The New Yorker released an article titled “The Americans Prepping for a Second ...

People often blame social media algorithms that prioritize extreme content for increasing political polarization, but this effect has been difficult to prove. Only the platform owners have access to ...

Pessimism about the country’s future has risen in cities since last year, but rural America is more optimistic about what’s ahead for the U.S., according to a new survey from the American Communities ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One Sunday, Ryan Burge looked out over his Mount Vernon, Illinois, church as the pianist played the service’s prelude. The ...

Religion, in its various forms and beliefs, has always played a prominent role in American society, with a majority of the population identifying as Christian. However, in recent years, there has been ...