Morris Fiorina, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Wendt Family Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, discusses the cycle of overreach and backlash in our politics.

With ideological extremism on the rise in Congress, President Barack Obama argued during his State of the Union that America must reform its elections.

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

Since the early years of this century, political commentators have told the American public that the country is coming apart. Although survey data indicates that majorities of the American public believe such claims, a sober look at the data reveals a more complex picture.

While the political parties duke it out over divisive social issues, the majority of Americans remain steadfastly in the middle. . . .

The average American citizen, contrary to myth, is neither very angry, nor very far to the left or the right, nor inclined to treat anyone with different opinions as a mortal enemy...

The notions of a politically discordant and ideologically polarized American public that dominate American news media outlets are flawed and unfounded, a visiting political science professor said Thursday in a Tempe campus lecture. . . .

Congressional leaders quickly recognized that enacting an expensive plan to steady the financial industry shortly before an election depended upon convincing voters it was needed to save the economy rather than bail out Wall Street high-fliers...

The Washington Post's Jon Cohen, the Hoover Institution's Mo Fiorina, and Roll Call's Mort Kondracke discuss what the media misunderstands about US politics, the truth about political polarization, and how members of the two major parties increasingly inhabit totally different worlds. Click here to read Fiorina's piece on the disconnect between political science and political reporting in a special election edition of The Forum.