With less than six months to go before the 2012 November elections, two results are sadly certain: first, the voting public will be the most ideologically divided ever; second, the 113th Congress (2013–14) will be the most partisan and polarized ever. Between 1972 and 2008, the percentage of R

'Amateur democrats' have revolutionized politics on Capitol Hill.

Dialogue in politics is increasingly rare and needed more than ever.

The polarization of American politics continues to be a fertile topic for researchers with one new study suggesting that our online dating habits contribute to the red-vs -blue schism At the Mischiefs of Faction blog study co-author Casey Klofstad summarizes the findings parents pass their

A conference on “Overcoming Polarization Through Catholic Social Thought” focused on achieving civil discourse in the church and in U.S. society.

Unless we are willing to admit that, then the situation will only get worse.

One of the more demanding and absorbing conversations I have been part of was a recent discussion of polarization in the American Catholic Church.

Bishop McElroy said that Catholics must embrace “the virtues of solidarity, compassion, integrity, hope and peace-building.”

“We’ve become too polarized...We’ve believed that we’ve become gods on both sides, on the left and on the right, and neither one of them are correct.”

During a time of political polarization, writes Matt Malone S.J., it is more often the serious business of governing that is a distraction—from the partisan combat that has become our all-consuming pastime.