The public sees a number of specific problems with American politics. Partisan fighting, the high cost of political campaigns, and the outsize influence of special interests and lobbyists are each ...

America’s long-standing political conflicts increasingly carry an economic cost that is rarely discussed. Research on economic policy uncertainty suggests that sustained political instability can ...

If you aren’t too distracted by the unprecedented events in America’s political system recently, you might have noticed that even more shocking developments have overtaken established and ...

Amid Trump’s Iran war, which has spiked global energy prices and sent the price of fuel in the U.S. soaring, pride in America ...

Does politics stress you out? Did the last election cause you to lose sleep, lose your temper or lose a friend? If so, you weren’t alone. For the better part of two decades, the American Psychological ...

It is easy — indeed, too easy — to see the damage that the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns did to America’s young people. I say “too easy” because, as the most recent estimates from Stanford ...

Historically, Black political power has not come easily in the United States. The institution of slavery and systems of racial inequality – from Black Codes to Jim Crow – restricted the civil and ...