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Differences in beliefs may not be what drives people apart. A belief that someone else is wrong may be the stronger force.

A community - bystanders, law enforcement, colleagues and family - is likely to deny an atrocity when acknowledging it requires action.

Despite their high confidence overall, almost half of surveyed election officials worried about the cost of running elections.

To manipulate voter perception, political action committees are adopting names that signal the opposite political goals from what those groups intend. And research shows the strategy is working.

Progressive Abdul El-Sayed will face Republican nominee Mike Rogers this November.

State constitutions play a growing role in American politics. But turning to such documents to recognize rights and liberties is not a new project - nor is it an entirely liberal one.

The recently shuttered immigrant detention facility continued a long tradition of using alligators in ways that have reinforced demeaning racial stereotypes.

Nearly all county jails across Colorado's Front Range allow prisoners to visit with their loved ones only virtually.

Class-war rhetoric from Democratic candidates jams working-class voters into a prefabricated progressive agenda, an expert on rural and working-class communities argues.

A State Department report on this alleged problem is new, but its claims about alleged communist machinations being behind activist movements in the US are old.