#polarization-in-america

#polarization-in-america

Ashley St. Clair stated, 'So last week, I told you guys that all of MAGA is paid and they coordinate their messaging in lockstep via group chats.' She emphasized the improbability of many influencers independently arriving at the same conclusion regarding Trump needing a ballroom after the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

Musically, Jackson was in a class all his own. He remains, even in death, one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with 13 number one singles and countless awards.

Jefferson's words on equality are often seen as self-evident, yet they fail to encompass enslaved individuals, women, and other marginalized groups, revealing a significant contradiction.

On the morning of the Unite the Right rally, I lumbered down the staircase of a Catskills Airbnb rented for a bachelor party to learn that only hours before, a gang of white nationalists stormed the University of Virginia campus wielding Tiki torches and chanting, 'Jews will not replace us.'

With Hitler in LA, Leon Lewis hid the spy codes but once I figured it out, I realized, Oh my God, I've got a historian's dream here, which is an unknown story that's really important.

The survey by Strength in Numbers/Verasight found that 55% of respondents supported impeaching President Trump, with only 37% opposed and 8% unsure, indicating a net +18 support for impeachment.

The Roman republic did not survive him. The second Trump administration has revealed American Caesarism in nearly full bloom, governing by executive orders and emergency decrees.

Dare, or the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program, was created in 1983 by the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles County school district. From the start, the program was a success. Its stated goal was "to equip elementary-school children with skills for resisting peer pressure to experiment with tobacco, drugs and alcohol." The initiative was embraced by police departments and politicians, and within just a few years the Dare curriculum had spread to more than three-quarters of the country's school districts.

Faiz Shakir, executive director of More Perfect Union, stated, 'We're hoping that an economic populist movement for the next generation will start through More Perfect Union on campuses.' This reflects the organization's goal to mobilize students around economic issues.

Researchers at the University of Cambridge's Political Psychology Lab tracked shifts in Americans' views across nearly four decades and found that divisions were broadly stable through the 1990s and early 2000s, before rising steadily from 2008 onward. Using more than 35,000 responses from the American National Election Studies between 1988 and 2024, they estimate that issue polarization has increased 64% since the late 1980s, with almost all of that change occurring after 2008.

A record high of adults—80 percent—believes that Americans are divided on the most important values. National pride, trust in government, and confidence in institutions are near record lows. The Princeton University historian Sean Wilentz says the United States hasn't been this divided since the Civil War. Nearly half of Americans think another civil war is likely in their lifetime.