According to a new research, Fox News viewers who were paid to watch CNN for 30 days become more suspicious and less prone to believe false news. The study by David E Brockman and Joshua L Kalla, titled “The multifarious impacts of partisan media on viewers’ beliefs and attitudes: A field experiment with Fox News…
The heart of the Congress has been hollowed out today. Both parties’ pragmatists who represent swing districts — and genuinely pay attention to people from the opposing party — are on the verge of extinction. The US House of Representatives resembles a European parliament in that there is almost no cross-partisan negotiation or even discussion….
Congress is a rough place. Partisan tensions regularly boil over into nasty debates with overheated rhetoric that contaminate American politics. An especially pungent ugliness erupts volcanically during the nomination process for vacancies to the US Supreme Court. Enter US Senator of Maine Susan Collins, who routinely works to rise above the partisan fray in Congress,…
With the House majority clearly within reach, Republican leaders huddled in Florida this week to seek advice from the architect of the “Republican Revolution” almost three decades ago — former House Speaker Newt Gingrich — on how to launch their own political uprising in November. Republicans are quite optimistic about their chances, since they only…
News outlets are reporting that NATO estimated on Wednesday that 7,000 to 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in four weeks of war in Ukraine, where fierce resistance from the country’s defenders has denied Moscow the lightning victory it sought. By way of comparison, Russia lost about 15,000 troops over 10 years in Afghanistan. Not…