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Survey research tries to sort out the typical partisan reactions to a loss from an erosion of trust that may be more lasting.

Treating politics like a fantasy game, online donors shower contributions on long-shot candidates. But money is no substitute for grassroots organizing.

The United States suffered a dramatic and well-documented increase in drug-related deaths from 2000 to 2018, primarily driven by prescription and non-prescription opioids, and concentrated in white and working-class areas.

Acknowledging human behavior, Madison said that if we are to live in the free society envisioned in the Constitution, then people will use that freedom to advocate on behalf of their own self-interest.

A few months ago, the three of us began exploring public opinion about federalism and the role of ideology in shaping whether people tended to prefer that the federal government or state and local governments address political issues.

It worked for him before, but will the rising racial liberalism of white Democrats counter the rising racial conservatism of white Republicans? Is that even the right way to frame the question?

As President Trump’s response to the coronavirus has careened from denial to incoherence, some of the blame for his baffling contradictions has been apportioned to his media sidekick, Fox Cable News.

The 2019 Distinguished Africanist shares the lessons she learned throughout her incredible career.

Are we living in a ‘golden age’ of political conspiracy theories? James Tilley asks what belief in them tells us about voters and politicians.