Between 2008 and 2020, the United States experienced a relentless increase in “Separation”—the researchers’ metric for the distance between the average opinion of the two groups. By 2024, the degree ...

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A growing sense of political division, paired with declining confidence in governing institutions, is shaping how Americans view their democracy.

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I recently walked into my politics class at Sarah Lawrence College prepared to discuss civic protest. The prompt was ...

On January 6, Israeli and Syrian leaders met in Paris for US-sponsored talks which saw Syria’s Islamist president Ahmed ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2026.250149, discusses a quarter-wave geometric-phase route ...

Our columnist argues the politicalization of certain events makes it difficult to have productive classroom discussions. Students must approach dialect with an open mind for the sake of their ...

It is a familiar conundrum by now. Yet in the opening weeks of 2026 — as President Trump kidnapped a foreign leader, threatened to invade an ally and looked on as federal agents detained and killed ...

The choices we make are often a reflection of our own bias. It’s important to explore both sides of an issue and be grateful ...