Russia now says it must ‘de-Satanize’ Ukraine. What? Chonlawit Sirikupt - November 17, 2022 The Kremlin seems to be trolling for support among U.S. voters on the far right
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s supporters don’t care what critics think Victor Wu - November 16, 2022 If Trump picks her as his running mate, she’ll have a bigger platform. And Republican leaders can’t dent her approval.
Republicans are increasingly sharing misinformation, research finds Megan A. Brown and Maggie Macdonald - August 28, 2022 Republican candidates have dramatically increased how much they share from unreliable sources in just two years
Patriot Front is on the march. It’s selling a story about whiteness. Candice K. Travis - July 24, 2022 Here’s the story the group was peddling when it marched on Boston’s Freedom Trail — and in hundreds of other appearances so far this year
Conspiracy theories are spreading wildly. Why now? Margaret Appleby - May 18, 2022 The Buffalo shooting shows how deadly such theories can be.
The U.S. has been promoting vaccines through fear. Research on political anxiety suggests that’s a mistake. Christopher Ray - August 3, 2021 Many Americans worry more about the vaccines’ side effects than about covid-19. What messaging will reach them?
UFOs exist, and might come from beyond Earth, the U.S. said. Will that encourage conspiracy theorists? Curtis Bram - July 30, 2021 Here’s what my research found.
Catholic clerics struggle to avoid partisan politics. Evangelical leaders dive right in. Why the difference? L. Felipe Mantilla - July 20, 2021 It’s all about hierarchy and its absence.
Women have been hit hardest by the pandemic economically. Will that bring them closer together politically? Leah Ruppanner and Kelsy Kretschmer - March 25, 2021 Here’s what our research found.
Republican women are becoming key party messengers. Here’s how it happened. Catherine Wineinger - February 15, 2021 Just ask Reps. Liz Cheney and Marjorie Taylor Greene, now standing for the GOP’s two opposing poles
Why Republicans haven’t abandoned Trumpism Pippa Norris - February 8, 2021 Parties can and do change. But these four barriers stand between the Republican Party and moderation.
Biden can’t instruct the new U.S. attorneys on how to prosecute the Capitol rioters. But they’ll listen to his signals. Michael J. Nelson, Ian Ostrander, Ethan D. Boldt, and Christina L. Boyd - January 31, 2021 That’s been true at least since the 1990s, our research finds
Biden reverses Trump’s ‘Muslim ban.’ Americans support the decision. Nazita Lajevardi, Loren Collingwood, and Kassra AR Oskooii - January 26, 2021 In 2017, rallies and protests persuaded a big proportion of citizens that the ban was ‘un-American'
Christian nationalists and QAnon followers tend to be anti-Semitic. That was seen in the Capitol attack. Paul Djupe and Jacob Dennen - January 25, 2021 Our research finds that identification with QAnon, Christian nationalism, Donald Trump and anti-Semitism are tightly linked
The assault on the U.S. Capitol opens a new chapter in domestic terrorism Daniel Byman - January 14, 2021 The counterterrorism manual doesn’t cover an insurrection egged on by one party’s leaders.
Three key factors that drive far-right political violence — and two that don’t Stephen C. Nemeth and Holley E. Hansen - January 8, 2021 Rhetoric like Donald Trump’s is often a main driver.
Some good news from 2020: So far, very few Americans have been killed in terrorist attacks. Daniel Byman - December 21, 2020 Despite alarming headlines, domestic terror attacks left fewer Americans dead than in 2019
Trump’s ‘Chinese virus’ slur makes some people blame Chinese Americans. But others blame Trump. Gregory Porumbescu and Donald Moynihan - September 16, 2020 Even conservatives responded to the phrase by more often criticizing the president
Most Americans expect cheating in the November elections Steven Smith - September 10, 2020 Majorities in both parties fear that election officials will cheat when the votes are counted.
How do Americans react when warned that other countries are meddling in U.S. elections? Sarah Bush and Lauren Prather - August 20, 2020 And who do they think it’s helping?
The movement against coronavirus lockdowns is still going — and still angry. Rachel Meade - August 6, 2020 This isn’t an astroturf movement. These populists deeply distrust elites for leaving them behind.
How the coronavirus pandemic helped the Floyd protests become the biggest in U.S. history Maneesh Arora - August 4, 2020 People who lost money or jobs because of the pandemic response were more likely to protest with Black Lives Matter
Here’s what Pelosi could do if Republicans tried to manipulate the presidential election’s outcome Daniel Carpenter - August 4, 2020 If the game is constitutional hardball, Democrats could try this play
Who supports QAnon? Here’s what our poll finds. Justin Stoler, Joseph E. Uscinski, and Casey Klofstad - August 2, 2020 Its appeal is not really based on traditional left-right, Democratic-Republican politics.
Part 2: What happens if a U.S. presidential candidate withdraws or dies before the election or inauguration? Joshua Tucker - May 14, 2020 Here’s the second part of the answer to that gloomy question.
New poll: the QAnon conspiracy movement is very unpopular Joseph Uscinski and Casey Klofstad - August 30, 2018 The QAnon conspiracy theory has surged into mainstream news these