Our typology sorts the public into nine groups based on their political and cultural values, not their party – painting a picture of American politics with far more than two colors.

A new study suggests that voters use political labels like “left” and “right” as mental shortcuts to guess a politician’s policy stances, even when the voters’ own political identities do not strictly ...

After the Sept. 10, 2025, assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump claimed that radical leftist groups foment political violence in the U.S., and “they ...

Oskari Lahtinen, Senior Researcher at the INVEST Research Flagship Center at the University of Turku in Finland, has developed validated tools for studying "woke" attitudes on both the political left ...

Regarding Peggy Noonan’s “How Not to Respond to Political Violence” (Declarations, May 2): All of Ms. Noonan’s examples of recent violence were of threats against public figures on the political right ...

On May 5, 1789, the French Revolution began with a meeting of the legislative assembly. No one knows exactly why, but during that gathering those who sided with the King—the nobility—sat to his right.

Oskari Lahtinen, Senior Researcher at the INVEST Research Flagship Centre at the University of Turku in Finland, has developed validated tools for studying ‘woke’ attitudes on both the political left ...

Few issues elicit near-unanimous agreement from both the political left and right. The virtually universal opinion that political anger permeates our country is one such issue. However, that shared ...