When politics comes up in small group chats, people often adjust their stated opinions to match the dominant viewpoint. New research using AI-simulated conversations reveals that social pressure can ...

The principle of intellectual charity is fundamental to constructive political conversations. This principle states that, in any discussion, we should accept the best version of an opponent’s ideas, ...

Becca Kearl is on a mission to help people engage in political conversations even when they don't agree. She is the executive director of Living Room Conversations, a nonprofit that tries to help ...

You probably don’t need poll numbers to convince you that Americans are increasingly hesitant to have conversations about politics. But there are plenty of surveys out there that confirm your belief.

A nonfiction examination of how social media conversations, misinformation, and algorithms contribute to political division in the United States. LAKE TAHOE, CA ...

We like to put the theater in Political Theater every so often. George Orwell, Ukrainian artists, the Christmas Adventurers Club. Movies don’t have to be overtly political to say something about ...

Political published writing retains an "important and complex role" in the national conversation—despite huge social and technological changes this century, a new book shows. "Writing Politics in ...

This is the fourth in a series of posts describing how we can have more successful political conversations, in both our civic and personal lives. When we make a sustained effort to regard our ...