Our typology sorts the public into nine groups based on their political and cultural values, not their party – painting a ...

The political landscape of two decades ago seems almost unrecognizable now. Back then, opposing wars and the surveillance state was so completely coded as left-wing that Republicans regularly ...

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Political discord runs deep in the United States, with ideological divides often amplified by partisan media, social platforms and emotionally charged rhetoric. To better understand these tensions, it ...

To the editor: Measuring views on a left-right political spectrum might be expedient for casual conversations, but views are not one dimensional (“L.A. Times Insights,” March 3). Neither are people.

Americans express roughly equal levels of concern about left-wing and right-wing extremism and violence, according to a new The Economist/YouGov poll. At the same time, overwhelming majorities believe ...

A study conducted by cognitive neuroscience researchers at Brown found that the brains of individuals on the extremes of the political spectrum process information more similarly to each other than to ...

The political landscape of two decades ago seems almost unrecognizable now. Back then, opposing wars and the surveillance state was so completely coded as left-wing that Republicans regularly ...