Political Polarization

U.S. adults explain – in their own words – what they think cancel culture means.

The share of adults who are “basically content” with the federal government has risen to the highest point since 2004, driven by Democrats.

Here are some key findings about Americans’ attitudes about gun violence and gun policy from recent surveys.

An 85% majority of Democrats say everything possible should be done to make voting easy; 28% of Republicans say this.

Republicans and Democrats offer starkly different assessments of Donald Trump’s presidential legacy, a new survey finds.

Democrats are far more likely than Republicans to say prosecuting those who broke in on Jan. 6 is very important and that penalties for them will likely be less severe than they should be.

A majority of Republicans say the GOP should not be accepting of Republican officials who openly criticize Donald Trump.

Americans inhabited different information environments, with wide gaps in how they viewed the election and COVID-19.

Only six states now have U.S. senators of different parties – the smallest number of split delegations in more than a century.

Donald Trump's four-year tenure in the White House revealed extraordinary fissures in American society but left little doubt that he is a figure unlike any other in the nation’s history.