More local officials than ever say in a new survey that political polarization is having a negative impact nationally, with those in larger communities seeing greater local effects — findings that ...

Politicians and policy experts like to talk about the root causes of crime, homelessness, poverty, rising prices, and other problems. If they want to understand the root cause of political ...

Immigration. Abortion. Guns. Name a third-rail conversation topic and chances are Xiaowen Xu is talking about it – and she knows you are, too. Xu, an assistant professor of psychological sciences at ...

Researchers at TU Wien are developing a model that interprets opinions not as diametrically opposed poles, but as overlapping ...

Keep up with everything happening in The Commons by signing up for the Chronicle’s Philanthropy Today newsletter or our weekly Commons LinkedIn newsletter. Protests are becoming a routine part of ...

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 ...

A New Year should bring hope, yet it also confronts us with an urgent challenge: the widening political divide that threatens our sense of national community. Recent polling makes clear that ...

The other day, I took my children to the barbershop, one we’ve been going to for years. Not much has changed in that barbershop over the years—at least, not until last week. While the baseball posters ...