Between a presidential election and a worldwide pandemic, 2020 was one of the most tense years in recent memory, but there was plenty of comic relief as the public laughed either with or at political ...

Once upon a time, back in the glory days of Old Nashville, our fair city had a single-term mayor so beset by scandal and ...

Is Facebook exacerbating America's political divide? Are viral posts, algorithmically ranked feeds, and partisan echo chambers driving us apart? Do conservatives and liberals exist in ideological ...

Author Rich Rubino has finally found a place for his bottomless well of all things political, within the 500 pages of his latest book, “The Great American Political Trivia Challenge.” You might think ...

In early 2019, a Twitter thread started by comedian Patton Oswalt went viral. What set this exchange apart from everyday online squabbling wasn’t Oswalt’s original post condemning then-president ...

We’ve been told for years that Americans are irreconcilably polarized. Neighbors, family members, and friends have grown apart based on political differences. Party affiliation signals whether you are ...

At their best, documentaries illuminate the world around us and can even result in policy changes, unjustly-imprisoned people being freed, and help spark political movements. With a heated ...

Meta has come under fire in recent days from social media users startled to discover they’ve been automatically enrolled in a relatively new setting that reduces “political content” on Instagram and ...

Americans largely agree political violence is never justified, but a new poll shows liberals are more likely than conservatives to say violence can be warranted in order to achieve political goals. In ...

Much like an overexploited ecosystem, the increasingly polarized political landscape in the United States — and much of the world — is experiencing a catastrophic loss of diversity that threatens the ...