The U.S. political system is often described as polarizing and difficult to follow. While Americans dominate the conversation ...

The Culture Cycle shows how people can make, unmake, and remake culture with a shared blueprint and use key social and ...

Civility protects the processes that give everyone a voice and a chance to participate. Disagreement, even when passionate or ...

The poll results identify five distinct types of independents, with big implications for American politics. As party loyalty fades and the definition of that elusive swing voter shifts, elections are ...

Experts on political violence said the factors shaping the current moment are clear — and similar to those that shaped past ...

After nearly five decades, Dan Balz is retiring from The Washington Post, where he covered 12 elections and eight presidencies as a political correspondent. On Washington Week With The Atlantic, ...

When host Garry Kasparov created the Renew Democracy Initiative in 2017, the founding manifesto warned that “the liberal-democratic order is under attack from within and without.” Eight years later, ...

Ms. Anderson, a contributing Opinion writer, is a Republican pollster and a moderator of Opinion’s series of focus groups. In a moment when partisan tensions feel as though they are reaching a ...

Congress faces midnight Wednesday deadline to avoid government shutdown as President Donald Trump meets with congressional ...

If White House officials want to debate whether political violence mostly comes from the left or the right, they might not ...