For many, religious beliefs play a significant role in shaping political views and voting behavior. Shepherd's background as a Jehovah's Witness led her to abstain from voting, as the faith encourages ...

In the months leading up to the 2024 U.S. presidential election, a team of researchers at MIT CSAIL, MIT Sloan, MIT LIDS, set out to answer a question no one had fully explored: how do large language ...

Follow live news and President Donald Trump and Democratic leaders are blaming one another for the federal shutdown.

Last week, President Donald Trump released his version of the letter given to naturalized Americans — and it must be said that his welcome letter is not that welcoming. He is, symbolically and ...

A string of alleged cattle robberies unlocks a long and winding mystery about a family dynasty that rules one of the wealthiest counties in the country ...

Politics, especially culture-war politics, now provides many fundamentalists and evangelicals with a sense of community and a common enemy.

Misinformation and disinformation. Two pesky little blighters that are causing serious problems in all kinds of really unhelpful places right now – including, according to a new study, romantic ...

Reporters still trek through politically competitive neighborhoods to interview voters. But quantitative political journalism has become increasingly predominant.

As lawmakers are scrutinized for what they say in public, should those standards be applied to social media likes and reposts?

Recent research found that Black respondents’ sense of linked fate with other Black people (i.e., Black linked fate) is not influenced by their skin tone, but their sense of shared fate with others ...