Articles tagged with politics

Asked what they would pay to guarantee representation in Congress by one party of another, a majority says not a red (or blue) cent.

New research suggests one reason our political discourse is so loud and angry: Planting seeds of doubt leads people to more vigorously advocate for their cherished beliefs.

Walking the streets of Mexico’s capital on the occasion of the nation’s 200th birthday, Kristian Beadle sees both chest-thumping and hand-wringing.

The ghost of Mao can certainly be divined in China’s current anti-vulgarity campaign, but he may have to take a back seat to capitalist-roaders Chiang Kai-shek and Lee Kuan Yew.

A conservative thinker argues encouraging more federal government employees to work from home could save taxpayers money.

A short digression on the meaning of a word that apparently has no generally agreed-upon political definition.

As election systems technology in America is getting more advanced, is the real world catching up to the laboratory?

A nationalist refrain helps to win electoral gains in Europe.

How can we get more women in public office? For starters, get more to run.

Researchers fear that a lawsuit aimed at the developer of the “hockey stick” temperature map is actually a political salvo at science.

A look at who boycotts whom in the United States finds that those on the margins are the most likely to participate.

Bob Bennett’s fall in Utah adds evidence to research showing polarization truly is the worst it’s ever been in Washington, D.C.

The White House is using competition as a soft-power method to drive change from offices to schools to statehouses and beyond.

An analysis of 27 presidential debates finds a decline in the amount of abstract thought present during discussions of economics.

If I’m going to help pay your health care bills, you could at least try and eat better.

Despite the heavy breathing about the constitutionally mandated U.S. Census this year, participation rates are pretty high.

When did being a qualified eminent jurist of the president’s choosing become insufficient to make it to the U.S. Supreme Court?

Innovation, and not just drilling the same well deeper, could make energy in America as common, as, well, salt.

The Golden State’s political crisis has reawakened its reformist instinct.

Europe’s newly empowered Parliament’s first muscle flex involves privacy and tracking terrorist finances.

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox may be a conservative, but certainly not one recognizable in El Norte.

An American academic finds people can somewhat accurately predict your political affiliation by your looks alone.

Two organizations release state-by-state report cards in order to clarify what has become the Wild West of grassroots politics: citizen-led ballot initiatives.

Scholars assess whether the widely accepted notion that the current political polarization in the U.S. is due in part to ‘safe’ political districts is accurate.

An extraordinary, nonpartisan experiment in redistricting on the left coast.

Mudslinging may get results for campaigns, but new research suggests that these negatively tailored messages should not be delivered in person.

Political activists — even the angry ones, but not the daring ones — are happier than the average person.

New research suggests locating polling places in churches may affect how people vote on social-values issues.

Freakish snowstorms warm the hearts of both believers and skeptics of global warm … err … climate change.

Nazi revisionism in America revolves around the idea that anyone you don’t like gets to be a fascist.

Obama administration gains another first — most divided debut year since polling began.

The question of ‘net neutrality’ will impact how you visit Miller-McCune.com in the future, but it’s a hot topic of debate today.

New research suggests the contemplation of compassion can negate the power of threat to increase support for conservative values.

Your genes may determine whether you cling furiously to your political beliefs or cast them aside at a shift in the breeze.

Three books suggest America has slipped into a polarized state of undermined self-government. None convincingly suggests how we can slip back out.

Many scientists breathed easier as a new U.S. administration took charge, but not all of their hopes have yet been realized.

Researchers find that disappointed voters on Election Night 2008 experienced a dip in testosterone levels. How do they know? They measured the voters’ spit, of course.

The partisanization of just about everything in D.C. leaves a scientific advisory panel on bioethics moored in ideological shoals.

How can the American electorate be post-racial when even the shading of skin affects decision-making?

Since the First World already mucked up the climate, animal nature dictates that developing economies are piqued at having to clean up.

Trying to take the pulse of how much race matters, a study looking at prejudice and the president finds a persistent residue of racism in how health care reform is viewed.

Although political participation is increasing, there’s more evidence that the moderates have left the building.

So, the rather nerdy constitutional pursuit of counting everybody in the country once a decade has become a political issue like everything else.

Oscar Arias and Bill Clinton on the burning issues of Latin America, from unrest in Honduras to charcoal in Haiti.

The media are belatedly acknowledging a racial subtext to many anti-Obama protests, thanks to what one scholar calls the ‘drip’ factor.

Cost and carbon have chopped down the high hopes America’s Midwest had for growing the nation off climate-changing foreign oil.

The people behind the burgeoning field of serious games aim both to get people to care about solving world problems while learning that all answers have their consequences.

They are prized by pollsters, but are smaller in number and less influential than most think.

A new study finds people forced to decide between two unpalatable choices are judged harshly, no matter which option they pick.

The United States has dumped billions of dollars into Pakistan as it has sailed closer than ever to becoming a nuclear-armed failed state. Where do both nations go from here?

As U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits India, we look at its neighbor and enemy Pakistan, America’s oldest friend in the Subcontinent. The United States has dumped billions of dollars into Pakistan as it has sailed closer than ever to becoming a nuclear-armed failed state. Where does it go from here, our Ken Stier asks in the first of a two-part analysis.

Hyperbolic attack ads from advocacy groups have diminished the popular esteem of the U.S. Supreme Court in the past, so as the campaign to place Sonia Sotomayor fires up, a little restraint is in order.

New research suggests that as America has become more segregated by class, the power of place has exacerbated the participatory bias in American politics.

In extolling human rights, the U.S. has traditionally pursued the ones that don’t cost any money with greater vigor, even as its rhetoric suggests something different.

… Is in the eyes of the beholder, who, it turns out, sees what the beholder wants its eyes to see.

Sarah Palin’s attractiveness may indeed have affected the 2008 presidential race — by making voters less likely to support the GOP ticket.

A leading political scientist finds that intolerance of opposing political views is stronger among people with the strongest religious views.

The ‘Bradley Effect’ may be kaput, but the ‘Turban Effect’ is alive and kicking.

If you arrogantly proclaim, ‘We’re No. 1,’ it’s probably because you know darn well you’re not.

A documentary film warns that America’s fiscal policies are a looming disaster as Wall Street melts down in real time.

Can a new administration help the world forget the sins of its predecessor? Should it?