In the presentation titled "Political Division in America: Has Culture Eclipsed Economics?" Fiorina argued that people are not divided as the media represent them

It's been an education, my four decades in Washington journalism: an anniversary that prompts this personal reflection. . . .

State Senator Bill Brady, the Republican gubernatorial nominee-in-waiting, recently proposed five amendments to the Illinois Constitution. . . .

Erick Erickson poses a direct question to me at RedState.com this morning. . . .

Inclement political weather rocked President Obama and his party this summer...

Are the “culture wars” of the last two decades a bogus conflict?

Although a seemingly simple concept, the issue of polarization has long frustrated political scientists. A superficial examination of the American political scene suggests an intensely polarized electorate, divided along partisan and ideological lines.

For all the florid journalistic commentary about voter polarization, extensive empirical studies have shown that the American electorate is no more polarized today than it was in the 1970s. What's changed is that the parties have sorted: Democrats have become more homogeneously liberal, Republicans more homogeneously conservative.

Recurrent failures in the U.S. government’s executive and legislative branches to agree on spending during Barack Obama’s presidency resulted in a downgraded credit rating and a government shutdown.