Tasked with overseeing the transition of a post- Nicolás Maduro Venezuela, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has stepped into ...

When Donald Trump picked J.D. Vance as his vice presidential running mate back in July, the predictable scrutiny a vice presidential nominee typically gets quickly devolved into a very online ...

A new study lays blame on Americans in this age group for fueling political polarization on social media. The study from the AI platform Socialprofiler reveals that it’s older generations who are ...

Spend any time scrolling through social media or news sites and it feels like America is a nation in constant argument. Offhand remarks often spark fierce screaming matches. Partisanship is up, Gallup ...

When former kindergarten teacher and TikTok creator Arielle Fodor joined the recent fundraising Zoom call for presidential candidate Kamala Harris, “White Women: Answer The Call,” she assumed her ...

Many of us fondly recall a world before social media. We engaged with TV and print ads that were nonpolarizing ways to “Just do it,” “Share a Coke” or answer “Where’s the beef?” The internet and ...

Online memes are influencing politics, sometimes fueling misinformation and shaping what young people learn. Political memes ...

With the 2024 U.S. presidential election in full swing, this digital frontier poses an unprecedented threat to the integrity of American democracy. Welcome to the unregulated Wild West of online ...

Internet political engagement began with hope. It brought people together with common interests. It offered a forum for engagement and argument, even persuasion. Then something went wrong. Expression, ...

The Pew-Knight Initiative supports new research on how Americans absorb civic information, form beliefs and identities, and engage in their communities. Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan, ...

In November, a chasm opened in the middle of one of the most popular online reading spaces. It started after the election, as political chatter bled into BookTok. On one side of the app, readers ...

A unique online game of political skill is engaging players and users not just from across America but from all over the world — who are learning about the American political system, including the ...