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Bill Boch / Getty Republicans Don’t Understand Democrats—And Democrats Don’t Understand Republicans
A new study shows Americans have little understanding of their political adversaries—and education doesn’t help.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Sanders’s Speech About Socialism Was Deeply Unserious
In the senator’s view, the threat of autocracy comes exclusively from the right.
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Hannah Mckay / Reuters What to Make of the European Elections
Right-wing populism is still growing—and has already established itself as a fixture on the political stage.
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Leonhard Foeger / Reuters A Russia Scandal Even Populists Couldn’t Stomach
In a sting video, the head of Austria’s far-right Freedom Party is seen soliciting illegal donations from a Russian billionaire.
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Henry Nicholls / Reuters How Authoritarians Manipulate Elections
From Russia to Venezuela, the strongmen who have destroyed democratic institutions won high office at the ballot box.
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Sergio Perez / Reuters Spain’s Past Is Lost
The center-left won the election, but the far right received a significant share of the vote.
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J. David Ake / Reuters The Problem Isn’t Twitter. It’s That You Care About Twitter.
Political leaders believe that the views they encounter online are representative of the “general public.” They’re not.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Why the College Scandal Touched a Nonpartisan Nerve
We disagree on just about everything, but we all seem to believe that there are some things money shouldn’t buy.
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Miguel Schincariol / AFP / Getty What Populists Do to Democracies
According to our research, populist governments have deepened corruption, eroded individual rights, and inflicted serious damage on democratic institutions.
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Zach Gibson / AFP / Getty Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture
Youth isn’t a good proxy for support of political correctness, and race isn’t either.
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Mike Nayna What an Audacious Hoax Reveals About Academia
Three scholars wrote 20 fake papers using fashionable jargon to argue for ridiculous conclusions.
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Matt Dorfman America Is Not a Democracy
How the United States lost the faith of its citizens—and what it can do to win them back
