We synthesize a burgeoning literature investigating why people believe and share false or
highly misleading news online. Contrary to a common narrative whereby politics drives …

Healthy democratic polities feature competing visions of a good society but also require
some level of cooperation and institutional trust. Democracy is at risk when citizens become …

Affective polarization has become a defining feature of twenty-first-century US politics, but
we do not know how it relates to citizens' policy opinions. Answering this question has …

The COVID-19 pandemic went hand in hand with what some have called a “(mis) infodemic”
about the virus on social media. Drawing on partisan motivated reasoning and partisan …

Despite a scientific consensus, citizens are divided when it comes to climate change—often
along political lines. Democrats or liberals tend to believe that human activity is a primary …

Democracies assume accurate knowledge by the populace, but the human attraction to fake
and untrustworthy news poses a serious problem for healthy democratic functioning. We …

A sizable literature tracing back to Richard Hofstadter's The Paranoid Style (1964) argues
that Republicans and conservatives are more likely to believe conspiracy theories than …

Exclusionary attitudes—prejudice toward outgroups and opposition to policies that promote
their well-being—are presenting challenges to democratic societies worldwide. Drawing on …

Both liberals and conservatives accuse their political opponents of partisan bias, but is there
empirical evidence that one side of the political aisle is indeed more biased than the other …

Segregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data
from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and …