Political violence is rising in the United States, with Republicans and Democrats divided
along racial and ethnic lines that spurred massive bloodshed and democratic collapse …

The 2016 election of Donald J. Trump invoked a time for reflection about the state of
American politics and its deep ideological, cultural, racial, regional, and economic divisions …

Abstract Changes to the media environment have increased polarized voting in America
through both addition and subtraction. We argue that the decline of local newspapers has …

Fox Populism offers fresh insights into why the Fox News Channel has been both
commercially successful and politically effective. Where existing explanations of Fox's …

This paper studies the use of emotion and reason in political discourse. Adopting
computational-linguistics techniques to construct a validated text-based scale, we measure …

Objective To investigate factors associated with the stigmatization of people of Asian
descent during COVID-19 in the United States and factors that can mitigate or prevent …

This chapter provides an overview of the theory of selective exposure, the idea that people
purposefully select messages matching their beliefs. After reviewing several psychological …

We explore the effects of localized economic shocks from trade on roll-call behavior and
electoral outcomes in the US House, 1990–2010. We demonstrate that economic shocks …

The media can impose reputational costs on firms because of its important role as an
information intermediary and its ability to negatively slant coverage. We exploit a quasi …

Can “urban-centric” local television news coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic affect the
behavior of rural residents with lived experiences so different from their “local” news …