The simple yard sign is often the first visual cue that election season has truly arrived, marking our shared civic space with political identity. These little cardboard squares and plastic stakes ...

A series of three experiments found that when people evaluate arguments on political topics, their prior beliefs about that topic are more important than the actual quality of those arguments. People ...

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 ...