More information: Buddhika Nettasinghe et al, How out-group animosity can shape partisan divisions: A model of affective polarization, PNAS Nexus (2025). DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf082 ...

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Nothing throws America’s divisions into stark relief quite like having Donald Trump in the White House. But Mr. Trump is an effect of polarization as much as a cause. We’ve been growing apart ...

Matchmakers in Washington, D.C. speak about how political polarization in dating has worsened in the nation's capital under President Trump, DOGE cuts.

Sphere Entertainment later reported an operating loss of $142.9 million for the first quarter of 2025 – a number that was actually slightly better than the same time period in 2024.

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We don’t know how polarization might affect longer-term engagement by the nonprofit sector. Indeed, some of these organizations have stepped up their advocacy efforts over the past five years, and ...

A word that has been used incessantly to describe the fraught state of American politics and society is Merriam-Webster’s 2024 word of the year. That word is “polarization.” ...

“Polarization was widely used to describe America in 2024,” says Greg Barlow, Merriam-Webster’s president, in the announcement. “Ironically, it’s a concept that is shared by both sides ...

According to Merriam-Webster, polarization and the verb polarize date back to the early 1800s. It was used when describing light waves. The physical definition of polarize, to cause to vibrate in ...

Despite having access to more information than ever before, Americans’ trust in the news has been declining in recent years. Nearly three-quarters of them say the media is making political ...