This is the mind’s game behind polarization in humans: our opinions are often less about truth and more about identity.

When we try to understand someone else's opinions in their most reasonable form, we are immediately engaged in a more ...

Curiosity is one way around politics at the Thanksgiving dinner table. But if a full-blown political argument comes at you anyway, you’ll be ready. Here are the facts on four raging political debates ...

Political polarization has become an unavoidable part of modern life, and increasingly, it is spilling into the workplace. Politics has a way of creating strong opinions — like office coffee. Everyone ...

Democrats are sharpening their political arguments against their opposition as the president’s major policy bill moves through Congress. By Carl Hulse Reporting from the Capitol Congressional ...