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Recent political discussions often focus on working-class voters moving away from the Democratic Party, but a new analysis ...

For a host of candidates running for office up and down the ballot in this year’s midterms, politics is a family business.

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, ...

If you think there’s a lot of money in politics now,” Marc Andreessen said in 2000, “you haven’t seen anything yet.” His firm ...

Thanks to his years as a political commentator and program host on Fox News, Jesse Watters is one of President-elect Donald Trump’s most-recognized boosters. Finally, that became too much for his ...

The violence at the White House Correspondents' Assn. dinner on Saturday underscores how dangerous this political moment is in the United States.

Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand how Americans view the state of U.S. politics today, and to explore in depth how the public thinks about the quality of their political ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. One of the main challenges with de-emphasizing political speech, critics say, is that defining what qualifies as political is ...