Voting against a despised candidate rather than voting for a favored one has increased considerably in the U.S. over the past few decades. Political scientists captured this in their 2017 headline ...

Credit ratings agency Fitch Ratings on Wednesday said it has placed the United States’ "AAA" rating on negative watch, pointing to increased political partisanship over the debt limit as the deadline ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON — Today’s lesson is in the phenomenon known as “negative partisanship.” Don’t turn away from this column thinking you ...

When it comes to attitudes and behaviors among members of American political parties, the conventional wisdom is that hate is stronger than love. Americans’ perception of negative partisanship — that ...

Civility and compromise don't work against antidemocratic bullies. The left wins by rousing its own base, rather than grasping at the middle. With the 2022 midterm elections in the books, and Donald ...

While rooting against the other team may be harmless in sports, it is far more caustic for our politics. Credit: Shutterstock On Saturday, 17 million people tuned in to watch Michigan absolutely stomp ...

Democratic President Lyndon Johnson is reported to have said that then-Republican Rep. Gerald Ford “is so dumb that he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time.” The media sanitized the word that ...