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 ...
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 ...
“A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy.” - James Madison I remember my mother recounting how, as a child, she would ...
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 ...
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 ...
As a guy who taught high school civics back in the last century, I have some admittedly old-fashioned notions about civics instruction. For instance, it may sound archaic to some, but I still think ...
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 ...