A global study of 186 traditional societies found evidence supporting the theory that low-alcohol fermented beverages played a role in the evolution of political complexity, contributing to the ...

A wave of political corruption scandals has rocked institutions across America. In recent years, there have been several high-profile examples of elected officials monetizing their public service to ...

On Dec. 19, at 6 p.m., Elections Reform Now will present a webinar on "How to Reform the Political System to Combat Polarization and Extremism." In 2021, a group of the leading academics in the United ...

For decades, many voters grew accustomed to a certain set of norms that seemed to govern political systems like rules. But elite groups have lost the power they once had to enforce those norms, or ...

America is in the midst of a unique political moment. The United States House of Representatives has been without a speaker for more than two weeks, after a far-right group of just eight Republican ...

A version of this study was originally published on June 10. We previously used the term “racial conspiracy theories” as an editorial shorthand to describe a complex and mixed set of findings. By ...