Tag: Political Polarization

Trevor Tovsen, center, with the University of Minnesota Duluth College Republicans, says the Pledge of Allegiance, during the Conservative Political Action Conference, at National Harbor, Md., Friday, Feb. 23, 2018.

Red Alert Politics

Students pick issue groups over political party groups on campus

Brendan Pringle · October 30, 2018 4:56 pm

Sharon Canner, 75, and her husband Steve Canner, 81, of Reston, Va., hold up letters spelling "VOTE" during a protest of the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court with the group Herndon Reston Indivisible, Saturday, Oct. 6, 2018, outside of the White House in Washington.

Noemie Emery: Democrats strive to disassociate themselves

Noemie Emery · October 30, 2018 4:00 am

In this Nov. 27, 2015, file photo, Rhiannon Leonard interviews her boss, Gary Himes in Weverton, Md., for StoryCorps' Great Thanksgiving Listen oral history project. The event calls for high school students to record a conversation with an elder over the holiday weekend using the StoryCorps app.

Conversation and storytelling to bridge the partisan divide

Salena Zito · October 29, 2018 6:11 pm

Carly Fiorina speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, in Oxon Hill, Md.

Beltway Confidential

Carly Fiorina: Who I’ll vote for this November

Carly Fiorina · October 29, 2018 4:00 am

New York City police officers, and members of the bomb squad, clear the scene after a report of a possible suspicious package in New York.

Incivility isn’t incitement

Washington Examiner · October 26, 2018 9:08 pm

President Trump speaks during a Make America Great Again rally at the Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Beltway Confidential

Political rhetoric needs to change even if Trump isn't to blame for pipe bomb mailings

Philip Klein · October 26, 2018 4:39 pm

In this Wednesday June 27, 2018 file photo, a Democratic party activist dressed as Rosie the Riveter attends a protest by Philadelphia Council AFL-CIO in Philadelphia.

Red Alert Politics

Should universities give credit for partisan campaigns or events?

Brendan Pringle · October 17, 2018 8:17 pm

A heated exchange between a Clinton supporter and a Trump supporter.

Dissecting the myth of America’s ‘radical center’

Kristen Soltis Anderson · October 16, 2018 10:51 pm

FILE- In this Dec. 17, 2008 file photo, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) headquarters in Washington is shown. Regulators are expected to vote Wednesday July 23, 2014 to end a longtime staple of the investment industry _ the fixed $1 share price for money-market mutual funds _ at least for some money funds used by big investors.

How liberals’ feud with conservatives ensnared corporate boardrooms

Joe Williams · October 9, 2018 4:00 am

Friday is the 45th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. It also marks the 44th anniversary of the March for Life protesting that decision. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

How abortion polarized America

Michael Barone · September 26, 2018 9:52 pm

An 1804 portrait of first lady Dolley Madison by artist Gilbert Stuart.

Dolley Madison’s legacy is more than fluff — just ask Liz Joyner

William Mattox · September 17, 2018 2:40 pm

"Conservatives Accuse Facebook of Political Bias," read the Times' headline on the issue. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Beltway Confidential

Want to preserve free speech? Create a culture that demands it

Erin Dunne · August 29, 2018 8:15 pm