For the first time, the United States has been classified as a “backsliding democracy” in a global assessment of democratic societies by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral ...

Merriam-Webster named "polarization" the word of the year in 2024. Hopefully, by identifying a problem, the country can begin to address it. However, the term itself is deeply problematic.

Fears of extreme polarization are repeated widely these days. Yet the process of polarization is one that can be understood and managed. Rather than wringing our hands and wondering what we did to ...

Greetings stargazers. Everything we know about things outside of our solar system is from the light we receive. I am using ...