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How Paid Sick Leave Became a Major Issue for the Left

Mandatory paid sick leave is a government policy position that requires businesses of a certain size to give their employees a certain amount of time off. It has also sparked a fight that's made and broken political careers.

Randy LoBasso

Social Justice

Americans Are Fleeing Religion and Republicans Are to Blame

The retreat from religious affiliation is, essentially, a retreat from the political right.

Lisa Wade

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The Extreme Political Polarization of the Average American Voter

Today’s America is highly polarized, but the voting booth is even more so.

Lisa Wade

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How Republican Women Are Losing Out in the Polarization of Politics

As both of our political parties move to the ideological extremes, Republican women, who, unlike their Democratic counterparts, tend to be more moderate than the men in their party, are being left behind.

Lisa Wade

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Different Parties, Different Cultures

Fearing bias, and because the differences are difficult to measure with reliability, most—but not all—political scientists shy away from describing the cultural differences between Democrats and Republicans.

Seth Masket

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What the Decline of Partisanship Would Look Like

Our current Republican-Democrat divide is so durable because it lines up with the conservative-liberal divide. To undermine that would require a major shift in today's ideological coalitions.

Seth Masket

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Can the United States Government Ever Be Trusted?

For the first time ever, the American National Election Study has allowed respondents in its annual survey of trust in government to answer "never." Here's how that simple addition changed results.

Jay Livingston

Economics

We All Know That Inequality Is Growing, but What Should We Do About It?

How you answer that question probably has a lot more to do with your ideology than your income.

Lisa Wade

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The Big Problem With Online Dating: It’s Making the Country More Politically Polarized

People who use dating sites are choosing matches based on criteria that are highly correlated with political preferences, and social scientists fear that will go a long way toward making us less tolerant citizens.

Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz

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How Anthony Weiner Isn’t Like Bill Clinton

On why the Democratic base was (eventually) able to forgive President Clinton for his infidelity, but probably won't give the New York City mayoral hopeful the same pass.

Seth Masket