Local governments provide proof that polarization is not inevitable

When it comes to national politics, Americans are fiercely divided across a range of issues, including gun control, election ...

How more polarized church is harming, helping Protestant groups | Q&A

Ryan Burge's new book, "The Vanishing Church," complicates common notions about declining church membership and the effect of ...
The New RepublicOpinion

How Polarization Tore a Hole in America’s Mainline Churches

American Catholicism has plenty of progressive touchstones, from Dorothy Day’s Catholic Workers movement to Cesar Chavez’s ...

US political polarization started a lot earlier than you might expect

Contrary to popular belief, the country began to split along political lines while Donald Trump was still a reality TV star, ...
Los Angeles Times

Is polarization a problem, or just a reality because the far right has lost its mind?

What’s so bad about polarization? I see the divides between factions of Americans as a troubling problem that we should all be striving to address. But lately I keep running into smart people who ...
The National Interest

Why Polarization in the Military Is a Growing Concern for Democracies

The first and perhaps the most serious such consequence is the decline of public trust in the military. When people perceive the military as representing one particular ideological view, especially ...
National Catholic Register

Polarization in the Church: How Can It Be Overcome?

In his recent homily commemorating the beginning of the Second Vatican Council in 1962, Pope Francis regretted the “polarization” of some Catholics in the wake of the Council. “How many times did they ...