After covering the 2024 campaign cycle, here are five points and eight charts that can help explain where American politics is today, and perhaps where it’s going. How close? Start with the ...

But when you plot that data, the story of the next 40 years of American politics -- much less the story of the 2016 election -- becomes clear. Here's the graph. The most common age for white ...

Via YouGov, here is all of modern American politics explained in a single handy chart. Enjoy. Mother Jones was founded to do journalism differently. We stand for justice and democracy. We reject ...

Here’s what Pew found. Want to know why US politics is so polarized? Look at the above charts. They show three different measures of political engagement — whether people say they follow ...

In 1780, John Adams, the second president of the United States, warned that the ... ideological difference on several major political issues. As the chart below shows, gun ownership, health ...

At the same time, there is broad support for making sweeping changes to the political system: 61% say “significant changes” are needed in the fundamental “design and structure” of American government ...