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Sep 26, 2025 · The poll results identify five distinct types of independents, with big implications for American politics.

Jul 3, 2025 · He has strong thoughts about encouraging more American women to have babies, but thinks the addition of people to the country through illegal immigration is an existential threat to the US.

Jul 11, 2025 · I talked to John Kenneth White, a professor emeritus of politics at Catholic University and the author of several books on American political parties, why they’re formed and where they’re headed.

Sep 20, 2024 · The idea that Republicans are red and Democrats are blue may, today, feel embedded in the symbolism, branding and vernacular — think “blue” states and “red” states — of US politics.

Sep 19, 2023 · Americans’ outlook on national politics is best summarized as “dismal,” according to a wide-ranging new Pew Research Center report released Tuesday.

Nov 3, 2020 · But it was Nast’s insight to present American politics as one big, messy menagerie – a circus, much like the one Barnum & Bailey had debuted in New York three years earlier.

Jun 29, 2025 · Those fault lines are key to understanding American politics. Highly engaged Americans were more averse to sending in troops to the demonstrations in Los Angeles, according to other polls …

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Jun 1, 2025 · Beyond Americans’ shifting views of government, the survey also finds ebbing belief in the achievability of the American Dream.