Imagine a college rally where a controversial speaker is shut down by angry protesters. In the scuffle, someone in the audience gets hit with a sign. If you heard this story, how would you react?

The first thing to remember in the wake of a high-profile act of political violence, according to one of Lancaster County’s top experts in measuring public opinion, is that what people see online does ...

A study conducted by cognitive neuroscience researchers at Brown found that the brains of individuals on the extremes of the political spectrum process information more similarly to each other than to ...

There has been condemnation from unionist and republican quarters of a video that ostensibly depicts a new, right-wing armed ...

It's a given that if one party to a disagreement keeps breaking the rules in order to harm opponents, the other participants will eventually sink to the challenge and adopt—or escalate—out-of-bounds ...

At a recent protest in Midtown Manhattan—one of many against Donald Trump's administration—a pair of masked women stood quietly in front of the stone lions that loom over the New York Public Library, ...

Political violence has intensified across the nation within the past 15 years as extremists have plotted or carried out the assassinations of several lawmakers and their families. Attacks have ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Importantly, we do not yet—and may never—know the motive, or constellation of ...

Some politicians called for prayers, while some others immediately cast blame. By Richard Fausset The shooting of Charlie Kirk on Wednesday at Utah Valley University prompted an outpouring of reaction ...

The collapse of traditional party systems is a familiar crisis across many contemporary democracies. Italian political scientist Piero Ignazi, writing in “The Crisis of Parties and the Rise of New ...

From Monica Lewinsky to Anthony Weiner, check out the show's real-life scandals. Nov. 12, 2013— -- intro: From start to finish, each episode of the hit ABC television show "Scandal" is a ...