The recent incident at the Cincinnati-area home of Vice President JD Vance is drawing attention to the challenges of ...

Political systems become polarized when internal unity within groups strengthens and the divide between them deepens. As polarization intensifies, societal tensions can grow, making it difficult to ...

We are living in a time of increased division. From politics to public health, conversations that could bring people together via common values are driving people further apart. So how can we shift ...

We develop a nonperturbative approach to the bulk polarization of crystalline electric insulators in d≥1 dimensions. Formally, we define polarization via the response to background fluxes of both ...

Many state delegations are already under single-party control. New maps could tighten the partisan grip while decreasing the importance of general elections. By Carl Hulse Reporting from Washington ...

1 Institute of Future Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang, Shaanxi, China 2 Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada Cell polarity is a fundamental ...

This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy. As is an annual tradition, Merriam-Webster has announced its "Word of the Year." In a fitting well-being check on America, ...

What do you do when you really can't do much because, as the ER nurse said, "you busted your arm up but good"? Word-nerdy stuff. It takes much less of a toll on me, who is still pretty cranky from ...

A word that has been used incessantly to describe the fraught state of American politics and society is Merriam-Webster’s 2024 word of the year. That word is “polarization.” Defined as a “division ...

(The Center Square) – There are four main demographic groups which define American polarization and may help explain the results of the 2024 General Election, according to decades worth of election ...