by jpitney | Jan 5, 2026 | Polarization, Public Opinion
Arthur Brooks at The Atlantic: Achieving ideological diversity in the workplace is especially tricky because, in aggregate, people’s resistance to accepting political differences is growing. According to the polling firm YouGov, back in 2016, only 10 percent of both...
by jpitney | Dec 21, 2025 | Civility, Polarization
On her “Reasonably Optimistic” podcast, Megan McArdle recently interviewed Colorado governor Jared Polis. ( The Dreier Roundtable gave him its Civility Award this past year.) At 31:20, the governor discusses civility and his friendship with Utah’s...
by jpitney | Oct 25, 2025 | Civility, Polarization, Violence
A Pew Research Center survey of 3,445 U.S. adults conducted Sept. 22-28 finds that, overall: 85% say politically motivated violence is increasing. This includes nearly identical shares of Republicans and Republican leaners (86%) and Democrats and Democratic leaners...
by jpitney | Jul 19, 2025 | Polarization, Public Opinion
Megan Brenan at Gallup: Americans’ average confidence in major U.S. institutions is unchanged since last year, with a near-record-low 28% of U.S. adults expressing “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in nine institutions...
by jpitney | Jul 16, 2025 | Bipartisanship, Federalist, Madison, Polarization
Jay Cost at AEI: There are many reasons for the dramatic rise in partisanship at the end of the 1820s, mainly related to economic diversification and rapid democratization. The number of voters had more than doubled between the elections of 1800 and 1820, and while an...
by jpitney | Jul 7, 2025 | Civility, Polarization, Reagan
Fred Ryan at The Dispatch: When I first joined the White House, I was young and driven, eager to help the president capitalize on his political mandate. So were many of my colleagues. But Reagan taught us a crucial lesson that’s in short supply today: In a healthy...
