This Pew Research Center study goes beyond Americans’ partisan attachments and vote choices to explore the values and ...

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 ...

"Many residents feel abandoned by a political system that asks for their vote but rarely their voice." ...

We are weeks away from the U.S. presidential election—and every other lawn in my Berkeley neighborhood has been taken over by political yard signs for school board positions, our hotly contested ...

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2025/03/08: A protestor outside a Tesla showroom in Manhattan holds a sign that reads "Block fascism now". Protests outside Tesla businesses across the country ...

As dissatisfaction with the two-party system grows in the United States, the idea of an alternative, however unlikely, gains traction. Elon Musk’s recent call for an America Party may be unserious, ...

Political alienation is a profound sense of estrangement or disconnection from the political system and its processes. It manifests in various ways, including apathy, distrust, and a feeling of ...

You might be imagining someone who takes their time considering the candidates and their positions on the issues, who generally has faith in the political system, who sometimes votes for Republicans ...

This essay appears in our Fall 2025 issue under the headline “What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Political Violence.” Georges Sorel, writing in 1908, gave a very different account of violence ...