A recent study found that 70 percent of people were overconfident about their knowledge of politics and when told about the falsehoods they held, refused to change their mind. As statewide primaries ...

As statewide primaries continue through the summer, many Americans are beginning to think about which candidates they will support in the 2022 general election. This decision-making process is fraught ...

I have been thinking a lot these days about politics and knowledge, the way knowledge or being knowledgeable gets defined in the political moment—in the moment, but affected by a thick web of ...

North Americans spend an average of two hours and six minutes daily interacting with various social media platforms, according to the online database Broadband Search. Globally, Facebook's 1.9 billion ...

The results of a new study published in Digital Journalism suggest that exposure to alternative media sites — which are often extremist in nature and say they exist to correct perceptions being ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Amidst an unprecedented election year and a news cycle that includes multiple overlapping crises, new research from the MIT Sloan School of Management ...

A new consensus unites college administrators with many of their faculty members, especially in the humanities: Scholarship today must be socially engaged. This demand, and the morally charged ...

As a political scientist, I’ve long believed political competition to be the keystone of representative democracy. Yet in the 2024 election cycle, I’m consciously limiting my time, attention and ...

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2020 DEC 21 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsRx Policy and Law Daily-- New research on political science is the subject of a new report. According to news reporting originating ...

Ian Anson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

As statewide primaries continue through the summer, many Americans are beginning to think about which candidates they will support in the 2022 general election. This decision-making process is fraught ...