Political outlaws & heroes So how did our early day political parties begin? There was division between Free Soilers, who opposed slavery, and Copperheads, who wanted early peace with the Confe… ...

In his 1963 book The Deadlock of Democracy, political historian James MacGregor Burns offered a novel suggestion. Then as now, most academics agreed that America’s party system was an unusually ...

The Gallup poll's findings are a stark illustration of how many — but not all — Americans have felt less of a sense of pride ...

Here are 7 key findings on polarization in America today: The share of Americans who express consistently conservative or consistently liberal opinions has doubled over the past two decades, from 10% ...

How the U.S. and Europe should respond—or even if they should treat Islamist parties as distinctive in the first place—has been a contentious question since at least the early 1990s.

One explanation is America’s two-party system, which makes it easier to form strong political identities than in countries with several major parties, where holding views that cross party lines ...

Most of the noteworthy duels in this era were centered on politics. “Judges, governors, legislators and rival candidates for office blazed away at each other,” Barbara Holland observed.

The Decay of America’s Political Parties The uncertain process of Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the 2024 race showed how little power parties wield. Irving Haberman/IH Images/Getty Images.

How early voting and vote-by-mail have changed voting patterns The pandemic led to a historic rise in early voting, as 70% of the electorate cast ballots before Election Day in 2020. In 2022, it ...