When Donald Trump picked J.D. Vance as his vice presidential running mate back in July, the predictable scrutiny a vice presidential nominee typically gets quickly devolved into a very online ...

When former kindergarten teacher and TikTok creator Arielle Fodor joined the recent fundraising Zoom call for presidential candidate Kamala Harris, “White Women: Answer The Call,” she assumed her ...

Many of us fondly recall a world before social media. We engaged with TV and print ads that were nonpolarizing ways to “Just do it,” “Share a Coke” or answer “Where’s the beef?” The internet and ...

Spend any time scrolling through social media or news sites and it feels like America is a nation in constant argument. Offhand remarks often spark fierce screaming matches. Partisanship is up, Gallup ...

Donald Trump’s second term has ushered in a new era in American politics. It’s brasher, crueler, more direct, more super online, and certainly more dystopian. Democrats and sometimes even Republicans ...

The Pew-Knight Initiative supports new research on how Americans absorb civic information, form beliefs and identities, and engage in their communities. Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan, ...

Online memes are influencing politics, sometimes fueling misinformation and shaping what young people learn. Political memes ...

In November, a chasm opened in the middle of one of the most popular online reading spaces. It started after the election, as political chatter bled into BookTok. On one side of the app, readers ...