About the author: Edward Price is Principal at Ergo, a global intelligence, consulting, and forecasting firm. A former British trade official, he also teaches at New York University’s Center for ...

The ideological divide between opposing political groups has been drastically increasing in various countries worldwide. This phenomenon, known as political polarization, can lead to greater social ...

NEW YORK, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Fitch downgraded the U.S. credit rating due to fiscal concerns, a deterioration in U.S governance, as well as political polarization reflected partly by the Jan. 6 ...

Phase diagram of the model (top) and four example trajectories. The four different regions of the phase diagram (defined by the ratio of in-group love to out-group hate and the ratio of group sizes) ...

If you think you’ve noticed that American politics has become more polarized in the past decade or so, you’re not alone. Researchers have shown that politicians, the news media, and ordinary citizens ...