In the digital age, we find ourselves increasingly divided, not just by our beliefs and values, but by the very technologies designed to connect us. The sophisticated algorithms that power our social ...

People aren’t talking to each other anymore. Instead, they’re communicating in information echo chambers, interacting with people just like them and only hearing opinions they already agree with. As ...

Political polarization in the U.S. has reached an alarming level. We have reached the point of fearing an honest conversation. Most Americans — 61 percent of adults, according to a Pew poll from ...

The American lifestyle is far from a picture of health — this is no secret. Social media posts joke about the American diet, while research studies reprimand our sleep habits. We may have been ...

If you get your headlines from NewsHour or stream Fresh Air on your ride to work, you have a little-known Colorado experiment to thank. In the 1930s, the Rocky Mountain Radio Council wanted to reach ...

The 2020 election featured dramatic increases in lawmaker posts and audience engagement, but less overlap in the sources shared by members of each party. In just five years, the percentage of ...

Waltham, Mass. — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dean Baquet, the pioneering former executive editor of The New York Times, will headline “The Media in a Divided America,” a timely event that will ...

If we lose this election, the country will collapse.” “That candidate is two-faced and absolutely untrustworthy.” These are ...

This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy. As is an annual tradition, Merriam-Webster has announced its "Word of the Year." In a fitting well-being check on America, ...