Between 2008 and 2020, the United States experienced a relentless increase in “Separation”—the researchers’ metric for the distance between the average opinion of the two groups. By 2024, the degree ...

In the late 1980s, a set of military ears listening for submarines instead picked up something far stranger: a solitary, ...

Almost all the rise in US polarisation over political issues since the late 1980s occurred from 2008 onwards, a new study ...

Divisions within the US population on social and political issues have increased by 64% since 1988, with almost all this coming after 2008, according ...

The political left and right are roughly equal in size, which sets the United States apart from most other countries.

Data-driven AI systems increasingly influence our choices, raising concerns about autonomy, fairness, and accountability. Achieving algorithmic autonomy requires new infrastructures, motivation ...

Divisions within the US population on social and political issues have increased by 64% since 1988, with almost all this coming after 2008, according to a study tracking polarization from the end of ...

Almost all the rise in US polarisation over political issues since the eighties occurred from 2008 onwards, a new study suggests. Far more Americans now adopt party and ideological labels in line with ...

Private investigation has always been a data problem in disguise. Investigators collect fragments, test timelines, and ...

A couple of weeks ago, LeBron quoted Jay-Z’s track “December 4th,” reciting the lines “If you can’t respect that, your whole perspective is whack. Maybe you’ll love me when I fade to black.” After ...

It was November 2023, in a staff break room at South Idaho Correctional Institution, when prison guard Blas Covarrubias ...