Can You Guess Someone’s Political Preferences by the Size of Their House?
The idea of the urban liberal and the rural conservative is not a new one, but it's shocking just how accurate that stereotype appears to be.
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Why Would Rudy Giuliani Say Something Like That?
Conservatives and liberals like to hear different things from their leaders.
Ideology Often Trumps Science, Especially Among Conservatives
Two carefully couched studies parse how our political views impact the way we respond to scientific findings.
Liberal Bloggers Are More Likely to Acknowledge Other Points of View
New scholarship finds major differences in the way liberal and conservative bloggers argue their positions.
The Radical Political Center That Somehow Never Rises
Is it even possible for our country to support a moderate political party?
There’s No Place Like My Ideologically Homogeneous Home
Driven by a deep-seated need to belong, Americans are increasingly segregating themselves into ideological enclaves. You're from Liberalville, I'm from Conservative Corners.
White or Black? Conservatives, Liberals See Faces Differently
New research finds people on the political right are quicker to classify a racially ambiguous face as black.
Explaining Liberals to Conservatives, and Vice-Versa
Psychologist Jonathan Haidt can tell you why you feel so righteous about your politics, but will you listen?
Conservatives’ Politics of Fear a Biological Response
Researchers looking at how we fixate on threats uncover more evidence of a biological component to the red-blue divide.
Reintroducing Paul Goodman, the ‘Public Intellectual’
A new documentary film, "Paul Goodman Changed My Life," tells the at-times risqué story of the seminal public intellectual of the American left whose impact evaporated after his death in 1972.